The Great Unracking: Saying goodbye to the servers at our physical datacenter - Stack Overflow
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  • Auth@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Congrats on the monthly costs i guess? What you pay in sending a guy down to replace a job you will pay 10x in monthly costs.

    I can understand a move to cloud infra for a company as worldwide as stackoverflow but I dont think they make the revenue required to support it. They’re going to get squeezed by the increasing costs eventually.

  • yaroto98@lemmy.orgEnglish
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    2 days ago
    • Tech company gets acquired by massive company for a ridiculous sum of money
    • Site never really generated much revenue
    • Parent company demands cuts
    • lays off workers, ahem sorry, removes redundant positions
    • re-org
    • gets rid of physical assets by moving to the cloud claiming savings despite it almost always being more expensive and worse than running your own.
    • lay off more employees claiming move to the cloud behind schedule and over budget
    • blame the economy
    • probably something with AI
    • hire a more ‘global workforce’
    • re-org
    • RTO mandate to make the highest paid employees leave after they trained their replacements overseas
    • voluntary severance package
    • another round of layoffs
    • re-org
    • quarterly report showing highest profits in company history
    • worst compensation bumps in company history
    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      You forgot profit sharing and bonuses for the C-suite only, then it’s carved up and the pension plan is raped to death.

    • wirelesswire@lemmy.zip
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      2 days ago

      My company used to staff in-house help desk, about 90% of which worked remotely full-time. They were outsourced, and a few months later, covid hit. Guess who didn’t have a functioning help desk (due to the contractor using crowded call centers) during a time when we were scrambling to get as many people as possible working remotely? I know hindsight is 20/20, but that was a pretty big facepalm.

  • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Stack Overflow no longer has any physical datacenters

    Do they think cloud services are literally non-corporal?

    Has the cloud rug-pull happened yet or are they waiting for some recession to jack up prices?

      • Lucy :3@feddit.org
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        2 days ago

        Wait a sec, do we actually know if hyperscalers like M$ and Fuckle are making profit off of that business and won’t need to drastically increase prices later on (similar to Netflix, Discord, etc.)?

      • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        I understand why startups want cloud services. Don’t know why a group that reached the top of the s-curve a decade ago wants to pad Microsoft’s or google’s or Amazon’s profits.

        I suppose shard(t)ing, but wouldn’t a CDN be a better fit? Maybe GDPR.