There is no “Cloud”: There are only Other People’s Hard Drives.
How many other programming-culture buzzwords could be similarly decomposed?
I find it interesting that PGP never caught on, yet storing one's personal information on disks belonging to strangers has.
Other People's Hard Drives...
There is no 'Cloud': There are only Other People’s Hard Drives....
I love this title! The prevalence of the "cloud" buzzword in software has led to a lot of fuzzy thinking. I remember one project where another dev suggested that since our MySQL queries were too slow, we should move the database onto a "cloud" MySQL service provided by Amazon.