Stop Doing Cloud Computing

The cloud revolution promised us scalability, high availability, and infrastructure as code. What we got instead was paying AWS $5000/month to run what could've been a $500 desktop PC under someone's desk.

Remember when "scaling" meant buying another computer? Before we were sacrificing goats to the Kubernetes gods and writing 200-line YAML files just to deploy a simple app?

Docker, Proxmox, Terraform - they've convinced us we need complex container orchestration when most companies barely have enough traffic to warm up a Raspberry Pi. Meanwhile, sysadmins who've been quietly maintaining reliable on-prem servers for decades are watching this circus with their arms crossed.

The greatest trick the cloud ever pulled was convincing developers that managing your own hardware was too difficult... right before making them learn 47 new abstraction layers to do the same damn thing.