Leaving the Cloud: The Finale

This podcast episode discusses the journey of 37signals, a software company, in moving their products back from the cloud to their own servers. The move, initially anticipated to take years, was surprisingly completed within six months. The team faced several challenges, including determining the appropriate technology, managing logging, failover, and data centers. They developed their own tooling, Maersk, for zero downtime deployments. The team questioned their existing principles and took a greenfield approach, resulting in significant improvements. While most major applications were migrated, there remained some ongoing cleanup and the migration of file storage, marking the completion of the move from the cloud.