2024-11-02
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Okay, let's talk.
What's up, nerds?
I'm here with Kurt Mackey, co founder and CEO of Fly.
You know we love Fly.
So Kurt, I want to talk to you about the magic of the cloud.
You have thoughts on this?
Right?
Right.
I think it's valuable to understand the magic minded cloud because you can build better features for users.
Basically, if you understand that you can do a lot of stuff particular particularly now that people are doing LLM stuff, but you can do a lot of stuff if you get that and can be creative with it.
So when you say clouds aren't magic because you're building a public cloud for developers and you go on to explain exactly how it works, what does that mean to you?
In some ways it means these all came from somewhere.
Like there was a simpler time before clouds where we'd get a server at Rackshack and we'd ssh it or telnet into it even and put files somewhere and run the web servers ourselves to serve them up to users.
Clouds are not magic.
On top of that, they're just more complicated ways of doing those same things in a way that meets the needs of a lot of people instead of just one.
One of the things I think that people miss out on, and a lot of this is actually because AWS and GCP have created such big black box abstractions.