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Sometimes I wonder if people are perhaps drinking a little too much of the cloud KoolAid. This is one of those times.

I had somebody from Microsoft once tell me, in apparent seriousness, that I should cloudify my program. Because it would offer me unprecedented scalability and uptime, and let my customers access their data from anywhere.

sigh You see this tool right here? It is called a hammer. It is useful for many things. You see this problem right here? It is an ingrown toe-nail. Please do not attempt to fix the ingrown toe-nail with the hammer. It will not work out well.



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