David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

And this happens sometimes in technology where progress sneaks up on you.

This happened with SSDs.

I love that, by the way.

We designed so much of our technology and storage approach and database design around spinning metal disks that had certain seek rate properties.

And then we went to NVMe and SSDs, and it took

Quite a while for people to realize that the systems have to be built fundamentally different now.

That the difference between memory and disk was now far smaller when you weren't spinning these metal plates around with a little head that had to read off them.

You were essentially just dealing with another type of memory.

I think we're a little bit in that same phase when it comes to the capacity of new businesses to be launched literally out of your damn bedroom.

It's bringing back the startup in the garage, in the literal, physical sense of the word.

Now, some of that is...

Do we need to?

You can get relatively cheap cloud capacity if you don't need very much.

There's just an aesthetic to it that I am completely in love with and I want to try to push on.

Is that going to be the same thing as getting out of the cloud?

I'm not sure.

Our exit out of the cloud was not the exit out of the data center.

We basically just bought hardware, shipped it to a professionally managed data center that we didn't even actually touch.

This is the other misconception people have about moving out of the cloud, that we have a bunch of people who are constantly driving to a data center somewhere to rack new boxes and change dead RAM.

That's not how things happen in the modern world at all.