Let's be honest - new waves of CTOs are guys coming with pure dev background. Managing self owned infra, even rented servers is something out of their wish/ability/knowledge, it's an territory of Unknown. From their perspective, potentially saving $1 million per year doesn't worth even trying to step on that territory (which is a good decision by my common sense).
Bit of stretch from "in theory Linux on laptop is cool, but who knows how will I deal with issues, there - I'd better stick for using Mac, which provides me clear path - buy new model or replacement and I'm golden".
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And of course they [CTO/C-level guys] better not to talk to that not-a-fellow-dev-guy, wearing beards and wearing sweaters.
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For lonely dev ("indie"/"solo" developers) companies, what DHH says is not applicable of course - their spending likely too small to have savings of that scale.
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[ 4.2 ms ] story [ 65.8 ms ] threadI've gone so far as on-prem sometimes and its "fun" for awhile but then becomes a headache.
I really love Digital Ocean's droplets too.
Bit of stretch from "in theory Linux on laptop is cool, but who knows how will I deal with issues, there - I'd better stick for using Mac, which provides me clear path - buy new model or replacement and I'm golden".
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And of course they [CTO/C-level guys] better not to talk to that not-a-fellow-dev-guy, wearing beards and wearing sweaters.
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For lonely dev ("indie"/"solo" developers) companies, what DHH says is not applicable of course - their spending likely too small to have savings of that scale.