2027: the year of migrating from your own metal to a managed provider
2028: the year of migrating from a managed provider to the cloud
2029: the year of migrating from the cloud to your own metal in a rack
People keep thinking the solution to their problems is to do something new (that they don't fully understand).
TIL it's called Nirvana Fallacy
The upside of keep moving it acts as a hardener and chaos monkey. You shake out any crufty service no one knows how to build let alone deploy.
Just experienced this with moving around multiple states and universities in the past year :) Grass really was greener in my hometown
TIL it's called Nirvana Fallacy
We used to call it "The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence."