On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 5:23 AM, Tapir <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thursday, February 20, 2014 7:58:54 AM UTC+8, Jim wrote: >> >> >> It seems that some people want "Infrastructure as a Service" and they >> don't put much value on the "Platform as a Service" architecture that >> Google has created here. Many of them also seem to not place any value on >> their own time, or the time of their Systems Engineering function, or on >> the opportunity cost of the time spent setting up servers and routers and >> load balancers, etc etc etc. Those people should probably go rent a >> virtual Linux box or two and setup stacks to their hearts content. >> > > If you can provide the details of the cost you mentioned, it will be more > persuasive, otherwise it looks like an excuse. >
Here's my case. I am the only person working on my application, and I do it full time. If I were to devote some of my time on setting up and maintaining infrastructure, it would slow down development of the application features that customers ultimately pay for. That's opportunity cost, hard to quantify but very real. If my money runs out before the features are there, I go bust. The other option would be to keep on developing the application functionality myself, and hire another guy to take care of the infrastructure. I am doing this on a shoestring budget, so taking on an employee would easily quadruple my salary expenses. I don't see any competent engineer working for someone else on the meager salary I pay myself. I would not. So if you can explain to me how I can maintain the current speed of application development and have my own infrastructure without spending any of my time or money, I'm all ears. Otherwise it is just so much empty talk as far as I'm concerned. -- Pertti -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
