A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
We would order servers and wait for months until they arrive. To make our misery worse, even after they come, we'd wait for weeks, sometimes even months, until they are placed in racks and provisioned. Most of the time we were waiting for something to happen. Wait for servers, wait until they are provisioned, wait until you get approval to deploy, then wait some more. Only patient people could be software engineers. And yet, that was the time after perforated cards and floppy disks. We had internet or some other way to connect to machines remotely. Still, everything required a lot of waiting.
Given how long it would take to have a fully functioning server, ...
