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The cloud is somebody else’s computer — and that is sometimes exactly what you want
Technically true and practically incomplete. The useful part is precisely that somebody else owns a great deal of difficult infrastructure.
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Occasional posts about how this is actually done. No announcements, no industry news, nothing written to rank for a search term.
Tag: Architecture
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When should you rewrite old software?
Age is not a defect. A rewrite becomes interesting when the existing system prevents necessary change, which is a different test entirely.
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Drupal or Laravel
We build in both, so we have no incentive to sell you the wrong one. The choice is usually decided by a single question.
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Why your production server should not be interesting
A clever shell script only one person understands is a liability with good intentions. Production should be predictable, replaceable and mostly forgettable.
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Why boring technology is often the right technology
New technology is fun. Production systems are not supposed to be fun. What a mature technology has accumulated does not show up in a feature comparison.
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How much server do you actually need?
Shared, virtual, dedicated, private cloud. The list looks like small, medium, large and enormous. That is not what separates them.
Tell us what you are trying to run.
Describe the workload or the system you have in mind and we will tell you what it needs, what it costs, and whether we are the right people for it.