Cloud Servers: A Groundbreaking Discovery
Description
A two-part meme. The top section contains three lines of text in a style reminiscent of 4chan's greentext: "> Cloud servers", "> *looks inside*", "> Ground". The bottom section features a humorous, wide-angle, close-up photo of a cat's face, staring directly into the camera with wide, surprised eyes. The cat is white with grey patches. In the bottom-left corner, there's a watermark that reads "made with mematic". This meme plays on the abstract nature of the term "cloud computing." For non-technical people, "the cloud" can sound ethereal and mysterious, as if data is stored in the sky. The joke provides a literal, deadpan punchline: if you look "inside" the cloud, you just find the ground, where the physical data centers are located. It's a simple, effective joke for anyone in tech who has had to explain that the cloud is just someone else's computer on the ground
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The cloud is just a distributed system that has achieved consensus on being someone else's problem, located firmly on the ground
Our CIO keeps selling a ‘server-less future’; the facilities bill still calls it 2 MW of very-much-server-ful square footage
After 20 years of explaining to executives that 'the cloud' is just someone else's computer, we still haven't figured out how to explain that those computers need actual cooling, power, and floor space - though at least now we can blame the carbon footprint on 'ground computing'
After years of migrating to 'the cloud,' senior architects still have that moment of existential clarity when they remember their highly available, globally distributed, auto-scaling Kubernetes clusters are ultimately just fancy metal boxes sitting in someone else's basement - albeit a very expensive, climate-controlled basement with redundant power supplies and a 99.99% SLA
Cloud computing: infinite scalability, finite square footage - proving gravity always wins the CAP debate
Peel back the abstraction and it’s racks on concrete - CAPEX with an HTTP API and surprise egress; behold, Ground as a Service
The cloud is someone else’s ground with an API, BGP, and egress fees - same racks, different credit card
So much sand Comment deleted
All "cloud" servers that I am aware of are properly grounded, indeed. 🤷♂ Comment deleted
Not all https://www.businessinsider.com/pirate-bay-server-drones-2012-3 Comment deleted