How We Knew It Was Time to Leave the Cloud
<i>There is a threshold of performance on the cloud and if you need more, you will have to pay a lot more, be punished with latencies, or leave the cloud.</i><p>I&#x27;ve seen this a lot, and for a given workload I can tell when leaving the cloud will be the right choice. But the unspoken part is &quot;can we change our application given the limitations we see in the cloud?&quot; Probably pretty difficult in a DVCS but not impossible.<p>Sadly, storage isn&#x27;t a first class service in most clouds (it should be) and so you end up with machines doing storage inefficiently and that costs time, power, and complexity.