Using a pizza analogy, On-Premise is like making pizza completely from scratch at home—you
buy the ingredients, cook it, and manage everything yourself. IaaS is like buying the ingredients
and using a shared kitchen where the provider supplies the ovens and equipment, but you still
cook the pizza yourself. PaaS is like getting a prepared dough and kitchen tools where most of
the setup is done, and you only add toppings and bake it. SaaS is like ordering a fully prepared
pizza from a restaurant where everything is handled for you and you simply eat it.
Similar to the pizza analogy used in class, cloud service models can also be describe as
differences in personal housing. To elaborate, On-Premise resembles building and managing
your own house. In practice, this means buying the land, materials, tools, labour hours, and
controlling every detail yourself. IaaS however, is like renting an empty plot of land with
preinstalled utilities and infrastructure and later a house that you build and manage. PaaS would
be buying a partially built home with an existing foundation, plumbing, etc., you just have to
furnish the interior. Lastly, Saas would be like renting a fully furnished apartment where
everything is ready and maintain for you.
On-Premise is like building and managing your own house—you buy the land, materials, tools,
and hire workers, controlling every detail yourself. IaaS is like renting an empty plot with utilities
already installed; the infrastructure is provided, but you still build and manage the house. PaaS
is like buying a partially built home where the foundation, plumbing, and structure are already
done, and you just finish the interior. SaaS is like renting a fully furnished apartment where
everything is ready and maintained for you—you simply move in and use it.
The two main dimensions used in a Cloud Readiness Assessment are business value and
technical feasibility. Business value assesses how much benefit an application would gain from
moving to the cloud, such as improved scalability, cost savings, or performance enhancements.
Technical feasibility on the other hand, assesses how difficult it would be to migrate the system
based on factors like architecture, dependencies, and security requirements. These dimensions
help organizations prioritize which applications should be migrated to the cloud and which
should remain on-premise.
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“I struggle to believe I’m worthy of moments of joy and peace
without first putting myself through a brutal schedule,
monitoring my productivity levels down to the minute.
Perhaps some people apply this “earn your cookie” mindset in
ways that lead to healthy achievements.
Not me.
Mine is a mutation whereby joy and self-compassion are
regularly outlawed by an internal tyrant who decides when I’ve
been flogged enough for one day.
Just when I’m about to collapse, a voice inside says: “OK.
Give him half an hour of peace before bed. But make sure he
knows we’ll start again, bright and early in the morning.” —
Matthew Hussey
This insight makes my soul hurt, largely because I see it in
myself.
The writer Oliver Burkeman has a name for this bottomless pit
of self-imposed expected efficiency - Productivity Debt.
“Many people (by which I meant me) seem to feel as if they
start off each morning in a kind of "productivity debt", which
they must struggle to pay off through the day, in hopes of
reaching a zero balance by the time evening comes.
Few things feel more basic to my experience of adulthood
than this vague sense that I'm falling behind, and need to claw
my way back up to some minimum standard of output.
It's as if I need to justify my existence, by staying "on top of
things", in order to stave off some ill-defined catastrophe that
might otherwise come crashing down upon my head.
And make no mistake: paying off your imaginary productivity
debt completely – in other words, working so hard and so
efficiently that you no longer feel like you're falling behind – is
literally impossible, not just gruelling and unpleasant.
In the modern world of work, there's no limit to the number of
emails you might receive, the demands your boss might make,
the ambitions you might have for your career, etcetera – so
there’s no reason to believe you’ll ever get to the end of them.”
Here’s to overcoming the vague sense of falling behind.
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MODERN WISDOM
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Gurwinder Bhogal - the GOAT. 17 new thinking tools and
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Nir Eyal - how to change your limiting beliefs, using science.
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THINGS I'VE LEARNED
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​A new study investigated how long it takes to get over an
ex-partner.
On average, it took about 4.18 years for the emotional
attachment to an ex-partner to be halfway dissolved.
For the typical person, the bond to an ex completely faded
away around 8 years but for some it takes longer.
(Social Psychological and Personality Science (Chong and
Fraley, 2025)
**A response I thought was interesting:​
“Breaking news: humans are meant for monogamy and get
broken more and more with each serious relationship failing.
Now that a study says so, we can believe it.”
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2.​
​The higher you climb the further you have to fall.
“I have a hard time celebrating my achievements because in
my mind it was my obligation to achieve it.” — Michael Smoak
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3.​
​Let go or be dragged.
If it doesn’t fit, eventually it’ll hurt wearing it.
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