What Gergely Orosz thinks about the cloud
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
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4 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Gergely Orosz has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsRailway, Render, Fly io all examples of ones surely not as much red tape as eg AWS
- 7 days earlier
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Our readingAI adoption is causing a shortage of CPUs, making them difficult to source and increasing prices.
Their wordsIt seems that spot pricing has vanished because there’s no longer any lack of demand for CPUs – quite the opposite. I was surprised, but a lot of people chimed in; apparently, it’s now nearly impossible to get CPUs on spot instances without long-running connections with cloud providers. Also, reserving specific CPUs now needs to be done months in advance, and cloud providers will even turn down certain reservations because they don’t have enough CPUs or the right type of CPUs.
↗The Pulse: a new trend of CPU shortagesblog.pragmaticengineer.com
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Their wordsAnalysts are expecting CPU supply to add more comfortable headroom before memory does, but their expectation is that it’s still going to be multiple quarters away.
↗The Pulse: a new trend of CPU shortagesblog.pragmaticengineer.com
- 2 weeks earlier
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Their wordsThis stuff needs to live either in a VM, or probably the cloud.
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