Stefano Marinelli on Nostr: Just received one of those phone calls that makes me both sad and angry. A long-time ...

Just received one of those phone calls that makes me both sad and angry. A long-time client is migrating their resources to the "cloud" because "internal infrastructure (leased from a provider, not in their offices) is no longer sustainable." They believe they can solve all issues of updates, security, and implementation by outsourcing everything to closed services, cloud, or SaaS, and reducing investment in personnel. A few interns, cloud or SaaS services, and business is "worry-free."

I warned them to keep an off-site copy of their data, have a disaster recovery plan ready, and remember that their clients tend to cause damage and delete data, and their developers tend to break websites during updates. But all of this is underestimated because "the cloud is the solution."

Unfortunately, they've been swayed by the enticing advertisements from companies that promise everything without worries. Sadly, I know they'll get hurt, and it makes me sad, but there's not much I can do at this point.

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