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Hn now clearly are swarmed by grandiose novice techs.

10 years ago, no such superficial assessment would appear on first page.

This set of words bear little substance and engineering facts.

> AWS/Azure provide very leaky abstractions (VMs, VPCs) on top of very old and badly designed protocols/systems (IP, Windows, Linux) .

AWS cannot be made parallel, they themselves are 2 gens

AWS gen1

Azure gcp gen 2

Gen1 is on vm, ecs ebs s3, for web2 era

Gen2 is on cluster computing which was enable by vm

The then "leaky abstraction" is the mandated abstraction at the time

And GPUs today is about 70s's CPU

For example, you don't have any form of abstracted runtime on GPU, it's like running dos system

It's more leaky than 00s ' vm




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