> He elaborated: "It's code that tied not just to hardware – which we've seen before – but to a data center, you can't even get the hardware yourself. And that hardware is now custom fabbed for the cloud providers with dark fiber that runs all around the world, just for them. So literally the application you write will never get the performance or responsiveness or the ability to be ported somewhere else without having the deployment footprint of Amazon."
It's almost as if you're paying to use someone else's massive investment in technology so you don't have to reinvent the wheel, enabling you to just get business done quickly and at ridiculous scales. Kind of like using Windows tech stacks, or buying a Ford F-350. Who could possibly build a business on such terrible lock-in devices?
It's almost as if you're paying to use someone else's massive investment in technology so you don't have to reinvent the wheel, enabling you to just get business done quickly and at ridiculous scales. Kind of like using Windows tech stacks, or buying a Ford F-350. Who could possibly build a business on such terrible lock-in devices?