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Episode 20: The Cloud Is Just Someone Else's Computer
Mia and Leo explain cloud computing through a rented workshop: why apps like Netflix and Spotify run on someone else's computers, how companies rent more power for the holidays and hand it back in January, and the three ways the workshop analogy breaks — geography, shared outages, and the meter that never stops. Which of your apps lives in the cloud?
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