Anyone who thinks one cloud provider will provide them full resilience is fooling themselves. You need multicloud for true high availability.
But then you want to use the same stack across providers and all the proprietary technologies (even hidden from you with things like terraform) are suddenly loosing their luster.
What people usually think is “resilience up to a reasonable level of risk and cost”.
Multi-cloud is simply isn’t cost beneficial for 99.9% of problems.
And for a lot of businesses who talk about risk, saying “we followed AWS best practices but AWS went down” is an acceptable answer to the question of liability.
If you are in a position where AWS going down is a reasonable risk, then you’re already in a specialised enough domain to have engineers who understand how to deliver HA across different vendors.
Believe me, in some EU countries (like my country Poland) people are very sensitive for this kind of bullshit.
Last two times they tried to push other censorship/tracking laws (claiming as always "we have to, EU is making us") there were mass protests in every city and town.
In my own town of 5k people there were several hundred (500 people at least, probably more). And the previous govt backed down.
This topic seems to be coming back everytime certain countries (Denmark etc) hold the rotating EU presidency. Our current PM is certainly in the same EU clique that wants to push this so much, but it's an extremely unpopular position and he is already leading a weak minority coalition govt. It wouldn't take much to topple him, so he will not do anything like that (unless he is convicted people are distracted with some crisis, but that is where normal people come in. To keep watching what is being smuggled in).
I wonder why do voters in those countries that propose these laws tend to allow this to happen again and again.
Poland has a fresh memory on communism and censorship. Sadly the alternative to your current PM is PiS, who banned abortion, so basically christian conservatives with some fascist ideas, not very different than the ones currently running the US.
To the EU regulators: we don't need another Stasi, we already have Google and Meta to worry about, thank you.
Also, to regulate in my native language is just a nice way to say the f word, if this conversation is about porn.
It's because it's not about the opinion of voters, but about existing political powers that want to retain their power.
No matter what you (as population) say it will get implemented. If you don't, then they will put sanctions on Poland, withdraw financial partnerships, etc. Like with migrants, they are going to be sent there, even if Polish people vote against.
No matter if you are in favor or against, raising the topic will just make you socially be isolated or even legally punished in some places.
Sad for democracy and free speech.
EDIT: clarified about migrant policy and the decision of countries to choose or not
my personal opinion is it’s an all or nothing thing for immigration. you either reduce entirely for all groups or it’s racism and unfair treatment. everyone deserves an equal chance
There's something in-between that could work: allow everyone, kick criminals permanently, and give a path to permanent residence to others, or something like that.
I just made it softer (though I never mentioned race but economic migration), still can be too sensitive so let it be, just my opinion (I am in Eastern Europe and there the views are rather harsh, compared to Germany or France or Sweden)
At least in my country (Poland) you should be able to make a pretty bug fuss and resulting in them fixing it, if indeed one of ego services made you leak all your data to Google.
In the current "big co" I'm working for it's a bit ridiculous.
While AI tools have been provided pretty quickly (over a year ago, I initially used gemini cli, then copilot once it added anthropic models) the management is absolutely clueless about it.
The top wants agents. Every team is asked few times a week "what autonomous agents will you build next" and answers the current AI lacks agency required not to mess up critical long running tasks and generate even more work are falling on deaf ears.
(also ideas such as, why don't we setup a wiki page were teams can post their repetitive tasks and we can use AI to script them, are considered "not fast enough" - just build it... but we are the automation team, we automated everything we do years ago :-)
Middle managers on the other hand suddenly started giving juniors senior's work and asking seniors "tell them (juniors) how to prompt it".
Seriously? How about I prompt it myself instead? Oh, but it makes a shit load of architectural errors and boobie traps the junior will fail to find... So now instead of a cursory glance I have to spend an hour reviewing a small PR from them.
And any questions about "why are you creating a new X for this instead of extending the existing one?" are met with blank panicked stares...
The essence of this BS is contained in my description of the recent "Copilot Review" incident.
We sometimes merge the same Github workflow files (10 line files) to dozens of repos, we have to obtain approvals for the PRs from a bunch of teams working in different timezones, but the merge has to be done everywhere at once and it has to be coordinated with other work.
As we were on a day of such task some "helpful hand" enabled Copilot PR reviews for the whole org.
Copilot helpfully opened 7 or 8 discussions on each PR giving us such precious advice as "your concurrency group uses the commit sha as a differentiating factor, this will allow multiple runs to proceed concurrently" to which one is tempted to answer "no shit sherlock".
We suddenly had almost 200 conversations to "resolve" an hour before the merge and a bunch of approvers didn't give their approvals because "there is a discussion".
Thankfully we had copilot that wrote us a script in 5 minutes to resolve the problem caused by itself...
Maybe our next overnight agent can go over all our open PRs and close Copilot Review conversations with appropriate messages?
While it is possible to overdo everything and being "too jolly" can come across as insincere, despite being raised in a culture where almost no one talks to strangers I was never annoyed by this. Not even once.
I don't doubt people that are, exist, but I highly doubt it's a high percentage and certainly very far from "everyone else".
Back in the day I couldn't even dream of a PC. They were way too expensive. It took my extended family chipping in (~15 people) to buy me a C64 with tape storage. Still it was great fun. It made me learn programming in BASIC and English at the same time (as the Polish language book included was so badly translated and full of errors it was hopeless).
It was pre-internet obviously so obtaining software was very difficult. For years when I was learning assembler I was using a so called "monitor cartridge" that did simple assembly/disassembly, but it didn't support labels and such. I could read about software like "Meta Assembler" that let you use labels and variables and think "wow, I could do so much stuff with that..."
My first PC was sometime in late 90s. A Celeron 233MHz with Windows 95. I wasn't a huge fan of Windows back then. I remember when one of the pc magazines I got had RedHat Linux install CDs. I liked it from the start. The fact my software only modem and Lexmark printer didn't work got me into kernel programming :-)
Fun to think of it now, but I prefer 2026 a 100x :-)
After 2 years of using all of these tools (Claude C, Gemini cli, opencode with all models available) I can tell you it is a huge enabler, but you have to provide these "expert guardrails" by monitoring every single deliverable.
For someone who is able to design an end to end system by themselves these tools offer a big time saving, but they come with dangers too.
Yesterday I had a mid dev in my team proudly present a Web tool he "wrote" in python (to be run on local host) that runs kubectl in the background and presents things like versions of images running in various namespaces etc. It looked very slick, I can already imagine the product managers asking for it to be put on the network.
So what's the problem? For one, no threading whatsoever, no auth, all queries run in a single thread and on and on. A maintenance nightmare waiting to happen. That is a risk of a person that knows something, but not enough building tools by themselves.
Yup. I’m not expert so maybe I’m completely off base, but if I were OpenAI or Anthropic I’d likely just hire 1000 highly skilled engineers across multiple disciplines, tell them to build something in their domain of expertise, then critique the model’s output, iteratively work on guardrails for a month or two until the model one-shots the problem, and package that into the new release.
Any comments on how the copyright issues are handled in corporate settings? I mean both in terms of staying clear of lawsuit+ ensuring what we produce remains safe from copying
Similar to my favourite OVH servers, but I have unlimited traffic at 0.5Gb/s 64gb ram and dual mics. Similar price (with vat in Poland).
If you wanted to run same workloads on Aws it would cost you few hundred euro a month.
I see a silver lining to all this. At least maybe the silly "throw more horizontal scaling at it" will stop being a default response to all performance problems and people that are able to squeeze more processing out of the same hardware will be sought after again.
But then you want to use the same stack across providers and all the proprietary technologies (even hidden from you with things like terraform) are suddenly loosing their luster.
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