On Accountability and Reform
Even the world's most carefully laid-out plans fail if they lack the infrastructure to support them.
For all the dreams of walking deeper into the belly of the beast and aiming to become a certified cloud practitioner with either AWS or GCP by the end of June 2025, the lack of meaningful scheduling meant it was doomed to fail before it even started. In my defence, NamiComi became so incredibly busy for me and my co-founders that it really took all we had to keep everything running as smoothly as possible.
In any case, my new goal is to get back on track and have some certifications by the end of this year. I was looking at the basics to ensure I have a solid foundation going forward, and as it turns out, being a project manager for infrastructure, frontend, backend, and iOS and Android apps imparts some indirect knowledge.
Between public, private and hybrid cloud, the project I manage is basically a hybrid, using a combination of our own infrastructure alongside some external systems that introduce technology that would be outside our price range to do privately at that scale.
Side note: cloud computing is known for two main benefits—cost and scaleability. Both make sense, it’s now cheaper to rent IaaS than it is to have multiple PoP around the world that had to be bought, maintained and updated. That said, running a typical setup from AWS or GCP for delivery can be much more expensive than running your own setup in a private environment, where you can outsource certain features that require on-tap resources to maintain a healthy service to a public cloud provider.
As I find out about more about cloud computing and services, I think it will be a fun exercise to document how some of that is reflected in setups I’ve seen in the past and other ways they could have been deployed. Subscribe if you’d like to come along!
