Bryan Cantrill

Like, tell me what is so special about it.

And the answer for that, too, is kind of, I mean, not complicated, but there's a lot there.

There's a lot of different things.

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But I think the, when, when you try to solve for outcomes that deliver some of the benefits that cloud computing delivers, yes, there's all the kind of the developer benefits, which are more qualitative and, you know, speed to be able to, to get their job done, provision infrastructure, et cetera.

That is,

You don't get out of, I mean, a server is a piece of hardware that needs a whole bunch of software to do anything interesting.

And a cloud computer or the infrastructure that the hyperscalers run in support of cloud computing look nothing like what off-the-shelf servers and storage and networking equipment look like.

because it was designed for the purpose of extending an API to a software developer that allows them to not have to plan ahead based on their app, the hardware that they're going to buy, and then assemble it and run it.

The service is going to do all that for you.

And if the needs of your application change, guess what?

The infrastructure is going to be kind of reconstituted without you having to be exposed to it to support those changes in applications.

And so from a developer perspective, it is simplicity.

It is the ability to use modern tools to be able to deploy and manage software.

From an operations and a security and a financial team's perspective, the differences are really stark because it turns out when you design a rack scale system for the same kinds of things that the hyperscalers had to go design for for themselves, which is how do I get much better density?

How do I get vastly better energy efficiency?

How do I have systems that are much easier to operate?

Well, the outcomes are you can, you know, you can get a system that will do twice as much for the same kilowatt of energy.

And especially when things are extremely power constrained in on-premises environments today, that really matters.