What David Heinemeier Hansson thinks about data centers
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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3 dated positions, 2023 to 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what David Heinemeier Hansson has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsNow my next kind of tingle is that if you could move out of the cloud, can you also move out of the data center? Personal servers have gotten really scarily quick and efficient and personal internet connections rival what we connected data centers with just a decade or two ago.
↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting | Lex Fridman Podcast #474youtube.com 28th of 36 in this recording
- 5 months earlier
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Their wordsMost servers can easily power your applications much longer than that
- 2 years earlier
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Their wordsAs more companies start redoing the math on cloud, and pulling their applications off the rental racket, I think we'll see a resurgence of developers caring about the metal again