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I found one assertion so true: Cloud is just someone-else's computer.

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I might blow your mind if I said that serverless runs on servers?

It's read server less i.e on less servers not 0.

server-fewer just doesn't roll off the tongue as nicely

Software is not actually soft.

Eh, this is a colloqualism I can get behind, though "firm"-ware is actually just a different type of software.

"Hardware" meaning that it's very inflexible, "software" meaning that it is comparatively flexible, "wetware" meaning that it inherently lacks order. ;)

And grocery stores are just selling somebody else’s corn, but it’s that or become a farmer.

You mean that they can make the corn unavailable in the middle of my dinner?

Serverless and cloud servers can both do that.

The cloud is just digital feudalism, except we even tricked people into selling their own hardware willingly thinking it was 'smart'.

> digital feudalism

Can I steal this?

I think it's really apt.

of course; doubtless many others have observed the same reality of cloud compute

Which is exactly what you want. You don't want user to access you laptop.

Not exactly. I don't want to get into the situation that there is nothing I can do when it's down neither.

You don't have to if you plan your disaster recovery scenarios correctly.

Depends really. I am the entire ops team for a non-profit volunteer org, I host their services on the cloud specifically so when something fails I don't have to do anything. Would much rather have a cloud computing company's ops team working to fix the issue instead and we'll just pay our monthly dues.

The same can be said of many smaller companies where uptime can be maintained cheaper and more consistently by offloading ops work to a cloud computing company.

You still have outages when you run your own hardware and systems.

What would that look like for your company compared to the cloud?

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