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10 Dec, 5 tweets, 2 min read
For a good while, I thought the migration to the cloud was inevitable and good. A foregone conclusion. I don't think that anymore, and I'm really proud of the Basecamp ops team for having the expertise to giving us a on-prem path that's this solid ✌️❤️
What shattered the bell was seeing the bills. Whoever tells you that cloud is cheaper has never tried to provision a large fleet of database servers there. But it's not just about cost, although for a company of our composition IS an issue, it's also the future of the internet.
The idea that we're handing over half the internet – a system DELIBERATELY BUILT to be dispersed and resilient – and giving it to three companies to run their mega clouds on is fundamentally corrupt and obviously monopolizing. It's Bad For The Internet!
Doesn't mean the cloud doesn't have advantages. Or that going cloud hasn't leveled up the industry's approach to programmable infrastructure or k8s or whatever. But the final destination for this great internet cannot be everyone running on GCP, AWS, or Azure. It just can't.
So! We have an internal goal of moving off the big tech clouds over the long term. Take the lessons to on-prem, support smaller clouds, find a way to work with the internet, in its best interest, for the long term.

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This was written in 1938, but could just as well have been written today. The monopoly abuses of Big Tech is an echo from the ages. timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1…
Thurman Arnold is searing in his critique of how commentators and the media in general has run interference for big tech monopolies. Again, this was written in 1938!! There truly is nothing new under the sun.
Even the damn illustration that accompanies the article is a zinger for today.
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This is one of the key reasons we've don't have anyone at Basecamp that exclusively does "management". Nothing is more dangerous to the well-being of employees than a manager with too much time on their hands.
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