Yeah I've been bombarded with this through and alternative Youtube frontend on my TV, because I follow Diem25.
TlDr clouds are the new land owners and have replaced capitalism.
He's not wrong but not right either. I'd wager he's about 70% on the right side.
You still and always have the option to not use cloud, even if there ever were no data centers available, you can still pay to be connected to whatever local data exchange for a comparable price to renting a rack, if you didn't know.
But the world is not just computers.
You don't need to use cloud services.
Example Germany, offline water delivery is still done via phone calls, and the people running those shops don't want it any other way, because they have too many customers and not enough people willing to work for base hourly payments doing physically hard work.
I'm sure more examples can be found.
When it comes to jobs, I'm having a very hard time finding one which doesn't require knowledge about AWS, usually their preferred cloud operator, then comes Azure and lastly GCP, in Germany. GCP usually only if they're completely Google powered.
But he doesn't mean just clouds but also the connected services. The whole deal.
He's not a developer and doesn't know that everything you can do with cloud, you can do without cloud.
You don't need serverless, k8s etc.
But people get indoctrinated.
I was too, 2013 when k8s started being popular, when docker was the great new thing, when Google+ propaganda showcased k8s, I was on board.
Then I saw, hey wait a minute. Too complicated for every day use, too expensive for the little guy (me), too time intensive to maintain.
That's why it got hyped.
To drive business to their cloud.
Yannis and others make the same mistake, they don't value their own but believe someone else can do better than they can, because they actually lack knowledge.
Gaming anecdote, Battlefield 2142. Many servers had the "No fighting commander" rule, because apparently, according to them, "A commander can't fight and command".
Well maybe they couldn't, but I could. And I did great and had a lot of fun.
Cloud is similar. There are people who are able and stand on their own and there are people who aren't and need to pay, expensively, for the work of others.
If you can cook you might go to a restaurant occasionally, but most of the time you'll cook yourself. And the meal costs 5€ and not 25€.
Of course if you've got it all figured out you might have a lot of money and wouldn't mind inviting a friend and pay 80€ for the meal. Who cares, you make 700€ a day. And that friend will give make you another 200€ per day.
But if you're poor 5€ is a good meal.
Hey it's Sunday so don't take it all too seriously.
He's not wrong but not right either. I'd wager he's about 70% on the right side.
You still and always have the option to not use cloud, even if there ever were no data centers available, you can still pay to be connected to whatever local data exchange for a comparable price to renting a rack, if you didn't know.
But the world is not just computers. You don't need to use cloud services. Example Germany, offline water delivery is still done via phone calls, and the people running those shops don't want it any other way, because they have too many customers and not enough people willing to work for base hourly payments doing physically hard work.
I'm sure more examples can be found.
When it comes to jobs, I'm having a very hard time finding one which doesn't require knowledge about AWS, usually their preferred cloud operator, then comes Azure and lastly GCP, in Germany. GCP usually only if they're completely Google powered.
But he doesn't mean just clouds but also the connected services. The whole deal.
He's not a developer and doesn't know that everything you can do with cloud, you can do without cloud. You don't need serverless, k8s etc. But people get indoctrinated. I was too, 2013 when k8s started being popular, when docker was the great new thing, when Google+ propaganda showcased k8s, I was on board. Then I saw, hey wait a minute. Too complicated for every day use, too expensive for the little guy (me), too time intensive to maintain. That's why it got hyped. To drive business to their cloud.
Yannis and others make the same mistake, they don't value their own but believe someone else can do better than they can, because they actually lack knowledge.
Gaming anecdote, Battlefield 2142. Many servers had the "No fighting commander" rule, because apparently, according to them, "A commander can't fight and command". Well maybe they couldn't, but I could. And I did great and had a lot of fun.
Cloud is similar. There are people who are able and stand on their own and there are people who aren't and need to pay, expensively, for the work of others.
If you can cook you might go to a restaurant occasionally, but most of the time you'll cook yourself. And the meal costs 5€ and not 25€. Of course if you've got it all figured out you might have a lot of money and wouldn't mind inviting a friend and pay 80€ for the meal. Who cares, you make 700€ a day. And that friend will give make you another 200€ per day.
But if you're poor 5€ is a good meal.
Hey it's Sunday so don't take it all too seriously.