Ask HN: Where are the rolling heads of cloud adoption?

2 points by fabbari 5y ago ↗ HN

OK - I admit: this is a weird one. Whenever people talk about moving to the cloud to reduce costs it's never about the hardware. The song goes: "You don't need people to manage the systems, the patching, the security - those are the real savings!"

But then I don't see the waves of people being fired - sysadmins and DBAs - since "you don't need them anymore".

I know the problem is more subtle that this - IE: we would need to hire "more" - but for me the question remains: has anyone experienced a case where moving to the cloud actually resulted in IT layoffs?

Edit: cleaned up the syntax a bit

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tsjq 5y ago ↗

Some years ago there was a big one. Pls see here https://www.capitalmind.in/2015/01/the-inflexion-point-for-t...

jimmyvalmer 5y ago ↗

Software isn't quite like robotic arms. The vast domain of user inputs and the equally vast range of ways to satisfy them define a function that, at least for the foreseeable future, requires lots of human TLC. The names of the jobs may change, but we're all still manicuring the garden.