How the Cloud Has Changed (Since Last You Looked)

Posted by timothy on Monday February 8, 2016 @11:54AM from the could-be-worse-could-be-the-irs dept.

snydeq writes: InfoWorld's Peter Wayner takes a look at the new services and pricing models that are making cloud computing more powerful, complex, and cheaper than it was a few short years ago. 'We get more, but using it isn't always as simple as it could be. Sure, you still end up on root on some box that's probably running Linux, but getting the right performance out of that machine is more complex,' Wayner writes. "But the real fun comes when you try to figure out how to pay for your planned cloud deployment because there are more options than ever. ... In some cases, the cost engineering can be more complex than the software engineering."

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Re:Hipster software is the real problem. by Ace17 · 2016-02-08 18:52 · Score: 3, Informative

A lot of people seem to equate "distributed version control" to "git". This is incredibly short-sighted (See mercurial, bazaar, bitkeeper, darcs. Raise your hand if you're fluent in any other dvcs than git).

Git is the C++ of version control: it's incredibly powerfull, but needlessly complicated. It's the result of piling unrelated features while trying not to break the workflow of existing users.
The issue is, that after monthes of learning to master this complexity, you become convinced that it's necessary. It's not.

And yes, git can also be seen as version control for hipsters. After all, it's designed around letting people diverge from the accepted path :-)