Pizza Self-Hosting Metaphor

The cluster centers on using pizza as an analogy for SaaS/cloud services (ordering pizza from vendors) versus self-hosting (making your own pizza or instances), debating maintenance, vendor competition, customization, and quality.

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Sample Comments

dmitri1981 Feb 14, 2013 View on HN

... and probably saved you some pizza

moron4hire Mar 2, 2020 View on HN

I think you're missing the point of pizza

Double_a_92 Dec 3, 2018 View on HN

"pizza" here. We are probably just hungry :D

AnimalMuppet Dec 9, 2014 View on HN

Pizza vendors are going to hate this...

guappa Feb 23, 2024 View on HN

Your pizza must look for ants :(

vosper Nov 15, 2020 View on HN

Never bet against pizza, I guess?

samholmes Apr 9, 2013 View on HN

Looks like I should be selling pizza

rrr_oh_man Sep 2, 2024 View on HN

There can be more than one pizza restaurant.

dreen Mar 19, 2013 View on HN

Leave some pizza for the brake it gets devoured so quickly ;)

nikk1 Nov 15, 2021 View on HN

you sir have bad taste in pizza