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Mike's avatar

>Computing power dials up and down, detached from what any particular machine does

"cattle, not pets", as the somewhat problematic phrase goes.

It seems significant that the AWS cloud-computing product is EC2, aka Elastic Cloud Compute, seemingly nominal?

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Quentin Hardy's avatar

Definitely a "cattle, not pets" model, first with racks, hosting, and virtualization, then taking up many fold with this model. That term "elastic" was imported from an earlier era, and probably meant a lot to the developers they were targeting.

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Mike's avatar

Doesn't AWS have a _bunch_ of products that (still) have "elastic" in the name? Definitely trying to capture dev attention at that time.

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Benjamin Dreyer's avatar

A delightful article that nonetheless left me queasy! 10/10!

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Quentin Hardy's avatar

Coming from you, sir, that is an 11!

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Lauren Solomon's avatar

This was really wonderful. Indeed the cloud was a sea change. I watched the entire Jensen Huang video. It was really a treat.

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Quentin Hardy's avatar

I have a friend who started working for him in 2006, retired this year, so I knew him when he was smalltime. Very nice guy.

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