The byline for this piece about cloud computing is great. It a sarcastic comment about problems in the cloud, and if you read it, then maybe you won't think every problem in the cloud is cause for the complete abandonment of cloud computing as a tool in your technology toolbelt. As cloud vendors grow, they often standardize and build more homogenous infrastructures that could have cascading failures. We've seen this in the past with hosting companies that provided data center services, and we've seen it in large companies that centralize and standardize their systems.

When I started my career, I saw in in mainframe computing as well. That was more amusing as we would all stand up in our cubes, and if you saw a significant number of others standing up, you knew the entire mainframe was down. These days I think Twitter lets us know as quick as any monitoring software when there's a large outage. That's assuming Twitter isn't down.

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