So glad that half my company's internal stuff falls apart when some external service goes down... I couldn't even submit tickets to my company's helpdesk about the other networking issues I was having. What a joke.
But, isn't that what everyone on hackernews keeps advocating for?
The notion of self-hosting is that you have to hire expensive operations staff and maybe you have sub-par experience due to lack of investment.
There is often an argument about "lack of core competency" too.
Facebook famously runs their own infra but that didn't work so well for them.
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FWIW I'm actually of the other notion; I truly believe that you should minimise external dependencies. But that's because I'm a sysadmin (now: SRE) and it's my job to worry about reliability of systems. Less complexity and less external dependency ususally coincide with higher reliability.
A person could reasonably argue that it's in my interest to prefer companies run their own stuff, since it might be my job to maintain it, so it's self-serving. So I am not unbiased I suppose.
dijit|4 years ago
The notion of self-hosting is that you have to hire expensive operations staff and maybe you have sub-par experience due to lack of investment.
There is often an argument about "lack of core competency" too.
Facebook famously runs their own infra but that didn't work so well for them.
--
FWIW I'm actually of the other notion; I truly believe that you should minimise external dependencies. But that's because I'm a sysadmin (now: SRE) and it's my job to worry about reliability of systems. Less complexity and less external dependency ususally coincide with higher reliability.
A person could reasonably argue that it's in my interest to prefer companies run their own stuff, since it might be my job to maintain it, so it's self-serving. So I am not unbiased I suppose.