Public Cloud Only strategy - Uncompetative

I have watched Michael Dell's keynote on DELL EMC World 2017, and he said:

Anyone with a Cloud First strategy that is Public Cloud Only - I think will find himself uncompetitive for workloads that have predictable characteristics (see the video here).

Maybe this will change over time, but for now I fully agree with this.

From our experiance, even for QA environmnets that we can take down during the nights - we still pay more on the cloud than On Premise.

Crash on my next step

After seeing few human mistakes that take down a fully redundant system - I have added a new tool to my belt.

Simply tell yourself the following, before doing any configuration change:

Doing the next planned step - I need to crash the whole system - How can I make it happen?

Now you'll look for ways that a crash can really happen, instead of being sure you know it won't.

Good luck, and break a leg - not the system.