Most finance places I know

Are onshoring

Not offshoring

im sure we will again at some point, but management turnover is sufficiently high that nobody has worked out what a waste of time it's all been

Lol true

A number of manufacturers arnt even onshoring...they are coming here.

Due to raising costs of china

They’ll move to Vietnam

and decreasing costs of automation

plus the on shore experise

an automated system is cheaper, more efficient and doesnt lodge sexual harrasment complaints

Hmmm

right now theyre in full 'zomg cloud' mode too

Well for us, it’s that the wipro devs will charge thousands for building a form lmao

with all the managers drinking the cloud soda so much you'd think they'd just read the last 2 years of Wired and based decisions on that

Like you can get the work of a trained CNC operator

plus the machine they operate with

Well cloud does make sense

for £1-3 per hour

But it’s not a magic thing

24/7

it actually doesnt, in many cases

you can rack up truly fantastical bills

Well it does; not every company needs their own data centres

Makes sense to share data centres at a specialised company

someone even punted putting a big data project in AWS. like ... what.. do you even under... no you dont.

Urmm, cloud is just storing your data in another companies physical servers

its the bills

Yea but they pale in comparison

AWS for some use cases isn't cost effective

i couldnt even save money running a goddamn forum server of my own

To long term running costs of data resources, land, maintainable buildings

Cleaning and office staff for the data centres

tech debt

Upgrades

It’s a huge amount of work

if you already have your own datacentres the cost benefit figures are quite a bit different

Having your own enterprise level data centre

a couple of projects ended up staying on premesis because AWS was simply too expensive for them

storage particularly is nasty. i did official AWS training a while back and part of the training is an explanation of where you get charged. and then i realised just how much money amazon must make from this

Yea they make money