tech: you know what we need to do? we need to get rid of all of that expensive overhead of running infrastructure and consolidate it to a central point, since all of the equipment is commoditized anyway!
me: okay, sounds fair. plus now you can standardize shit and reduce cost of ownership by pooling everyone's resources.
tech: hell, that's still difficult, tho! let's just automate and dynamically deploy everything, including manpower resources!
me: sure... this'll mean picking up new skillsets and there'll be labor issues, but overall this allows you to deploy and move faster.
tech: fuck, why do we even need to do that? let's just break apart the idea of individual machines running code, and just focus on running code on tightly-metered platforms that can charge you on a per-milisecond basis! you don't buy servers, you just buy storage, and optimize by the milisecond!
me: ...wow, okay, that's pretty cool. A universal computing interface that just runs code and can bring up services with a minimal focus on infrastructure, so that you can deploy services within the day, not in the span of weeks? Wow.
tech: you know what else we could do
me: what
tech: since some activities take too long to complete, we'll just bring back some computing resources back to the local network so that they can be close to the end users.
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me: hang on a minute
