I had a chance to speak with Hendrik Volkmer during DevOps Days in Berlin last week. Hendrik works as an IT consultant with Cloudbau, and he recently wrote a great blog post series:
There will be no reliable cloud (part 3)
How I stopped worrying and love the cloud
There will be no reliable cloud (part 2)
Complexity and scale lead to a system design that can only be unreliable at the infrastructure layer
There will be no reliable cloud (part 1)
Stop wasting your time trying to find one. Stop wasting your time (and money) trying to build one.
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Enjoy!