two roads divered in a wood.....

"Don't put all your eggs in one basket."

"One server can fail, but a fleet of servers will never fail"

sure, the guys from AWS were essentially here to "sell" amazon web services, but I really appreciated how they took into consideration that we were students, and did less selling and more sharing and teaching.  i especially liked it when simone shared his experiences in order to put into context some of the concepts which wouldn't have made much sense to someone who has little understanding of the whole business of maintaining data centers

"If it ain't broken, don't fix it"

management of large companies with small foresight may not want to switch over to a whole new system.  they are afraid of failure or perhaps resistance to change? the ground people probably don't have the guts, motivation or power to push for these changes.  after all, why make your own life more difficult if everything is working right now.  i too believe in the old adage.  when things are going fine, why risk problems by fixing it?  i mean, after all, the current way of doing things is most likely a process or framework that has been perfected after many runs and iterations. right?

maybe not.  based on what little i know and what i've learnt from cvwo, when you develop a workflow, you're more than likely going to stick with it and live with it.  only during the starting honeymoon period, where the workflow is being developed is there incentive for improvement and changes.  once you've kinda settled into it, that's probably set in stone.  you'd never want to risk a change whenever you couldn't afford it.  an example would be as simple as getting from home to work/school.  if you're used to a certain route, would you dare risk it on a day where you have an extremely important meeting/presentation?

The first mover's advantage

in business, this is damn important, apparently. this concept was first formalized to me by my econs tutor in jc.  and in this scenario, like simone puts it nicely, it is the economics behind that is forcing the change into cloud computing.  i think while we're focused on not fixing unbroken things, we should also look breaking new ground.  in a way, thats WHY i'm here on this voyage - to sail into waters uncharted, to see lands unexplored.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

on a last note, nice to know that amazon has set up camp in the little red dot.