![Is Serverless the ultimate OpEx platform? [Cloud 2030 Jan 28] @RackNDigitalRebar](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vMfQJAYZJLo/maxresdefault.jpg)
Uploaded February 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
This discussion discusses how CapEx vs OpEx impacts innovation. Specifically, we ask:
* Is innovation going to be tied into platforms that you are reliant on in order to build new products and bring things to market?
* Can you bring something to market without all of this surrounding infrastructure?
My 3 minute hot take: youtu.be/xl6qd2-vKGQ
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This discussion discusses how CapEx vs OpEx impacts innovation. Specifically, we ask:
* Is innovation going to be tied into platforms that you are reliant on in order to build new products and bring things to market?
* Can you bring something to market without all of this surrounding infrastructure?
My 3 minute hot take: youtu.be/xl6qd2-vKGQ
Join at.the2030.cloud for more!
Try Digital Rebar: rackn.com/trial
![Is Serverless the ultimate OpEx platform? [Cloud 2030 Jan 28]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vMfQJAYZJLo/mqdefault.jpg "Is Serverless the ultimate OpEx platform? [Cloud 2030 Jan 28]
This discussion discusses how CapEx vs OpEx impacts innovation. Specifically, we ask:
* Is innovation going to be tied into platforms that you are reliant on in order to build new products and bring things to market?
* Can you bring something to market without all of this surrounding infrastructure?
My 3 minute hot take: https://youtu.be/xl6qd2-vKGQ
Join at.the2030.cloud for more!
Try Digital Rebar: https://rackn.com/trial/")
![Making IaC collaborative with Infrastructure Pipelines [1 minute]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vwMyqcau1q0/mqdefault.jpg "Making IaC collaborative with Infrastructure Pipelines [1 minute]
This short into describes the business impacts of RackN Digital Rebar and how RackN improves collaboration between teams, tools and platforms using Infrastructure Pipelines.
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![Setting up High Availability Clusters [Digital Rebar v4.6+]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/w4PBZsYr3zE/mqdefault.jpg "Setting up High Availability Clusters [Digital Rebar v4.6+]
Video walks through the basics for building a highly available cluster with Digital Rebar v4.6+. While this does NOT substitute for the documentation, it does show the basic process for creating and testing HA DRP clusters.
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![We talked REAL Multi-Cloud [9/22 Matt w Faction.io]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xRWGOqNQkYA/mqdefault.jpg "We talked REAL Multi-Cloud [9/22 Matt w Faction.io]
Matt Wallace joined us to review and discuss his multi-cloud presentation from last week. We talked about some very real and pragmatic reasons to use 3rd party data storage and interconnects to access specialized features of the major cloud providers.
Additional resources: https://at.the2030.cloud/posts/we-talked-real-multi-cloud-922-matt-w-factionio
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![How has OpEx changed innovation? [Cloud2030 Jan 28 Hot Take]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xl6qd2-vKGQ/mqdefault.jpg "How has OpEx changed innovation? [Cloud2030 Jan 28 Hot Take]
The ultimate in CapEx versus OpEx, is serverless, where youre paying by the transaction, rather than by the month or by the service. And its about as far to the extreme as you can get. So it was really interesting to me that we ended up with a lot of conversation about how much serverless is important to the pay as you go service model infrastructure.
Hear the whole discussion at https://youtu.be/vMfQJAYZJLo
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![Cloud Economics Feedback Loop [Hot Take Feb 4 2021]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yAWuw1CiyTE/mqdefault.jpg "Cloud Economics Feedback Loop [Hot Take Feb 4 2021]
How does the economic structure and complexity of Cloud create a feedback cycle that re-enforces to motivations to use cloud?
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