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#+title: the big picture |
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#+author: Richard Westhaver <ellis@rwest.io> |
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* Get Off of My Cloud |
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- industry has moved away from client-side, distributed compute in |
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favor of centralized server-side compute resources behind API |
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gateways. |
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- entire businesses are built on a single Cloud Provider and are |
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fundamentally incapable of moving off that Cloud. |
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- they /think/ in terms of that Provider. The Provider influences |
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all of their decisions. |
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- users control very little compute power |
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- personal computing hardware (consumer-grade) is limited in capability |
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- non-servicable architectures, planned obsolescence, closed firmware |
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- mainstream operating systems don't optimize for resource |
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efficiency - they maximize for the volume of telemetry data they |
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can collect and profit from |
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* Death of the Programmer |
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- The role of the programmer is changing |
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- programmers are no longer required to understand how computers |
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work to have a successful career |
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- Cloud Providers wrap all low-level details in their own |
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proprietary vocabulary and APIs |
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- To program on the cloud, you need to use the Cloud vocabulary |
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and are discouraged from thinking of computers as they actually |
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exist in the real world |
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- Cloud Providers influence college cirruculums, replacing compute |
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and systems theory with courses designed to teach you how to |
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configure Cloud Services. |
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