On the future of cloud services and BYOC — Jack Vanlightly
present significant challenges. Behind the scenes the industry is moving from a rigid model of individual servers or designated banks of servers towards a much more scalable and dynamic model that can respond almost instantly to changes and shifts in computational demand.
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be elastic to scale on demand, and it has to be on a pay-per-use basis.
Bill Franks • Taming The Big Data Tidal Wave: Finding Opportunities in Huge Data Streams with Advanced Analytics (Wiley and SAS Business Series)
A common failure mode is to build a business on top of somebody else’s data. If you depend on a single upstream source for your data inputs, they can simply raise prices until they capture all of the economics of your product. That’s a losing proposition.
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Up until last Friday, it seemed like HashiCorp had this balance just right. They did so by making most functionality open source, but reserving some functionality solely for their commercial products, such as Terraform Cloud and Terraform Enterprise. With this approach, the Terraform community grew, companies that used Terraform grew, and, of cours... See more
Yevgeniy Brikman • The future of Terraform must be open
- Effort : This is the additional work to be done in terms of person-hours. If we opt to deploy in containers on top of Kubernetes in order to reduce cloud provider lock-in, this item would include the effort to learn a new tool, write Docker files, configure Kubernetes, etc.
- Expense : This is the additional cash expense, e.g. for product licenses,
Gregor Hohpe • Don't get locked up into avoiding lock-in
Each app builds a moat and walls to protect the hoard of data its peasants produce. This is both for reasons of protection, and power. How did this condition emerge?Before the advent of the internet, apps ran on your computer and saved data to your computer. The internet flipped this around. Web software ran remotely on server computers, and saved ... See more
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If you have to be correct and you’ve got a very long and fat tail of use cases, either you do all of the work technically or you hire people. Often, we hire people. That’s a variable cost. Second, because the tails of the solutions tend to be so long—think something like self-driving where there are so many exceptions that could possibly happen—the... See more
Sarah Wang • What Builders Talk About When They Talk About AI | Andreessen Horowitz
to the extent that there's a part of software that will still retain more of the economics of software, it will be integration tools that are end-product-agnostic.