What David Heinemeier Hansson thinks about the cloud
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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22 dated positions, 2021 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what David Heinemeier Hansson has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsAnd it's perfectly clear that no later than the end of this year, it'll be the end of the line for Photoshop, Lightroom, and any other client-side program like that.
- 2 months earlier
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Their wordsBut ultimately, I don't get to choose whether they put in their credit card or not. They do. I do get to choose how much money we spend on servers. I do get to choose whether we squander that revenue on needless cloud services rather than just owning our own hardware, right?
↗DHH: How to Build a Profitable Company Without Losing Controlyoutube.com 14th of 27 in this recording
- 12 months earlier
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Their wordsIt's not easier to use AWS than it is to run your own machines, which we learned when we pulled out the cloud and didn't hire a single extra person. Even though we operate all our own hardware, the team stayed exactly the same.
↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting | Lex Fridman Podcast #474youtube.com 27th of 36 in this recording
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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
- 9 months earlier
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Their wordsFor 2024, we've brought the cloud bill down from the original $3.2 million/year run rate to $1.3 million. That's a saving of almost two million dollars per year for our setup!
↗Our cloud-exit savings will now top ten million over five yearsworld.hey.com
- 2 weeks earlier
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Their wordsWe can't have competition in the cloud as long as folks are locked into proprietary or overly-complicated setups
- 7 months earlier
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Their wordshaving all your computing eggs in one basket leaves you mighty vulnerable to predatory behavior
↗You can own more than one type of computer!world.hey.com 1st of 2 in this piece
- 7 weeks earlier
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Their wordsThe absurd egress fees charged by major hyperscalers have been one of the biggest impediments for companies to leave the cloud
↗Google Cloud cuts egress and promotes cloud exitsworld.hey.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsCutting the egress racket absolutely will improve competition in the cloud
↗Google Cloud cuts egress and promotes cloud exitsworld.hey.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 3 weeks earlier
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Their wordsThe cloud has some advantages, but it's typically not in a reduced operations headcount
- 8 weeks earlier
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Our readingThe cloud exit might go mainstream
Their wordsThe #CloudExit might well be at the cusp of going mainstream
- 11 days earlier
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Their wordsBecause running things on premise is not a materially different scope of work from running it in the cloud
- 4 months earlier
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Their wordsmost established companies that can amortize capital investments over a few years should seriously reconsider the cloud craze
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Their wordsThe cloud is often just as complicated as running things yourself, and it's usually ridiculously more expensive
- 7 weeks earlier
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Their wordsUltimately, I believe the key distinction here is not public vs private but owning vs renting
- 4 weeks earlier
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Their wordsI imagined getting out of the cloud was going to be as hard as getting in. But that just hasn't proven to be the case
↗The hardware we need for our cloud exit has arrivedworld.hey.com
- 2 weeks earlier
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Their wordsI urge any of the founders and executives looking at their budgets right now wondering where to trim the fat to focus on the cloud spend first
- 3 weeks earlier
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Their wordsThere's no magic that can change the fundamental fact that if you need all the computing cycles of a computer, you ought to own that computer
- 6 days earlier
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Their wordsAny mid-sized SaaS business and above with stable work loads that does not benchmark their rental bill for servers in the cloud against buying their own boxes is committing financial malpractice at this point
↗We stand to save $7m over five years from our cloud exitworld.hey.com
- 4 weeks 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
- 3 months earlier
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Their wordsIt's finally time to conclude: Renting computers is (mostly) a bad deal for medium-sized companies like ours with stable growth.
- 10 months earlier
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Our readingI think developers may care about hardware again as companies move away from cloud services
Their wordsManaging projects, be they code or otherwise, is mostly about communication
↗How we manage programming projects in Basecampworld.hey.com