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Forget CDK and AWS's insane costs. Pulumi and DigitalOcean to the rescue

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Re: Forget CDK and AWS's insane costs. Pulumi and DigitalOcean to the rescue

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While yes, it was more than ten years ago, we can see that such stupidity is woven into their DNA as a company. TL;DR: where a cloud provider hosts customers for which there are real-world consequences for data leakage, not a single customer can be at-risk for data leakage. It's a different line of thinking, almost "a different world", to those who have this line of thinking vs those who do. "The thing about reputati…

> While yes, it was more than ten years ago, we can see that such stupidity is woven into their DNA as a company. I don't know if it really meets that bar, but I won't argue about that right now. I'm just going to ask again for your definition of "real cloud" and whether you can suggest some that don't price gouge bandwidth (and aren't oracle, I would not consider them worthy of trust either).

> I'm just going to ask again for your definition of "real cloud"

Even from all the way over here, I infer that I think we're from so different worlds that what "real cloud" means to my side of the world isn't a part of your world.

What I can tell you, is AWS is the king of cloud, Google Cloud is a very very distant 2nd place, and Azure is an event more distant 3rd place.

> and aren't oracle, I would not consider them worthy of trust either

Smart man.

Re: Forget CDK and AWS's insane costs. Pulumi and DigitalOcean to the rescue

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Kubernetes no thanks. Terraform + Kamal [1] on Digital Ocean is the way I deploy/run apps now. [1] https://kamal-deploy.org/

Kamal is simply NIH K8s made by an unreliable company with poor leadership. No thanks, not for my prod infra!

I don't trust any project with a Discord listed so prominently

Give me a forum (even Discourse will do) , I'm tired of needing 3rd party spyware to interact with developers. That it is all closed off from search engines makes it even worse

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