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Infra is a cost center for a business unless your a PaaS and even then maybe still. Cost centers are usually ferreted out for savings, not investment.
by srmatto 1mo ago
Infra is a cost center for a business unless your a PaaS and even then maybe still. Cost centers are usually ferreted out for savings, not investment.
- roughly 1mo agoInfra is a cost center right up until its absence begins to undercut your value proposition to customers, and then it becomes an investment. GitHub seems well on the wrong side of that equation right now.
- geodel 1mo agoIn general true. But most of paying customers, including enterprise have made a bet that they cut down expense and resources on operational experience, system management knowledge to minimum because cloud . So even if these cloud/SAAS solutions perform poorly it is not like customers have wherewithal to create alternate solutions.
- conartist6 1mo ago> it is not like customers have wherewithal to create alternate solutions. it's not impossible. they don't, right up until they do