A slick cloud architecture vendor managed to bypass me and get a meeting directly with the C-suite.
He spent 45 minutes walking around the conference room pitching a full migration to AWS.
He showed them pie charts and talked about scalable elasticity and dynamic resource allocation.
Our CEO was nodding along like he understood what any of those words meant.
The CFO looked ready to sign a 5-year contract right there on the mahogany table.
I let the vendor finish his entire presentation before I cleared my throat.
I asked him if his cloud architecture utilized a standard BGP routing protocol.
He smiled confidently and said yes, of course, it's the industry standard.
I slowly took off my glasses and rubbed the bridge of my nose like a disappointed father.
I looked at the CEO and asked if we were seriously considering paying a premium for a BGP-reliant ecosystem in a post-quantum landscape.
The CEO immediately stopped nodding.
I stood up and explained that moving our data to a public cloud would expose our proprietary algorithms to multi-tenant collateral leakage.
We don't have proprietary algorithms.
We sell commercial HVAC supplies.
I told the room that our on-premise servers utilize a localized gravity-well defense mechanism.
I said if we migrate to AWS, we lose our atmospheric data shielding.
The vendor tried to interject, pointing out that atmospheric shielding isn't a real computing concept.
I asked him if he was willing to bet our company's $50M valuation on his arrogance.
The room went completely silent.
The CFO asked me what I recommended we do instead.
I told him we need to double down on our legacy infrastructure to create a closed-loop digital fortress.
I said I needed a $45K budget increase to reinforce the server racks with titanium-grade stabilization mounts.
The CEO fired the vendor on the spot and apologized to me for wasting my time.
The vendor looked like he wanted to cry as he packed up his HDMI adapters.
I got the $45K approved an hour later.
I'm going to use the stabilization budget to install a commercial-grade espresso machine in my office.
Cloud computing is just renting someone else's computer.
I prefer to own the computers I'm using to mine Ethereum.