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   Andrew Kelley (andrewrk@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 17:19:06 JST Andrew Kelley

   regarding https://ziglang.org/news/migrate-to-self-hosting/

   some people didn't understand why switching to self-hosting from the cloud makes website deployments faster.

   I didn't explain in the article, so I'll explain here:

   docker is slow, installing system dependencies is slow, uploading to the cloud is slow, etc.

   with self-hosting you set up the computer ahead of time, then just run a script that copies files around on the same computer, which is really fast.

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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 17:19:04 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     • Chucho :artix:
     we're long past the "honey" phase of the software enshittification cycle, when it comes to cloud (smoked?) computing services. honey bait has long started turning to poo as providers twiddle the settings to extract more value for themselves. many fell for the honey, but it was foolish to assume it would remain honey indefinitely.
     https://www.fsfla.org/~lxoliva/#Unshittify
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     Chucho :artix: (jrballesteros05@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 17:19:06 JST Chucho :artix:

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     @andrewrk I have been saying for long time to many people that migrating everything to the "cloud" is a big mistake. I saw many use cases where companies have problems of money because the cloud is expensive and even worse the loss of control.