The "cloud" is a hilarious failure at the main marketing point. Decentralized just means you have no idea where your servers are.
Scaling is the only real selling-point of cloud and far more people think they need it than actually do
Scaling is the only real selling-point of cloud and far more people think they need it than actually do
We're trying to fit something that's generally very centralized into the same model. Where the servers are does matter. What OS they run and how reliable they are matters on an individual level. The environment your server runs on is quite important and it's definitely your server, not "any server will do" by a Longshot.
If the cloud was just some source of CPU instructions we would have a government regulated source of CPU power for everyone. But depending on what you're running ram size, cache size, network latency, CPU architecture, drive type, endless variables come into play that are all important.
Depending on hardware that you cant control to have metrics you definitely need to control is going to make the system less reliable, and that's what we're seeing now with cloud computing.
I don't think on-prem will ever die out. It's like owning vs renting your office. There's pros and cons to each and we'll eventually hit some kind of equilibrium.
Cloud to me is also shared risk. I read - "Google cloud outage" as "multiple companies that rely on a shared infrastructure is not available ATM".
The mindset should be to run your services on a distributed infrastructure with no SPOF. Leverage cloud, fog, racks, PCs, whatever resources you can, but diversify your content/service and be risk averse from failure of one kind.