2024-10-19
1 小时 38 分钟Zac Smith left his role leading Equinix Metal in June of 2023. Since then, he's been thinking deeply about the present and potential future of data centers, OEMs, chip makers & more.
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Hey friends, you know we're big fans of Fly I.O.
and I'm here with Kurt Mackey, co founder and CEO of Fly.
Kurt, we've had some conversations and I've heard you say that public clouds suck.
What is your personal lens into public clouds sucking?
And how does fly not suck?
All right, so public clouds suck.
I actually think most ways of hosting stuff on the Internet sucks.
And I have a lot of theories about why this is, but almost doesn't matter.
The reality is if like I've built a new app for like generating sandwich recipes because my family's just into specific types of sandwiches that use brown Schwager as a component, for example, and then I want to like put that somewhere.
You go to aws and it's harder than just going getting like a dedicated server from Hetzner.
It's like, it's actually like more complicated to figure out how to deploy my dumb sandwich app on top of AWS because it's not built for me as a developer to be productive with.
It's built for other people.
It's built for platform teams to kind of build the infrastructure of their dreams and hopefully create a new UX that's useful for the developers that they work with.
And again, I feel like every time I talk about this it's like I'm just too impatient.
I don't particularly want to go figure so many things out purely to put my sandwich app in front of people.