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Once I tried to explain to an coworker about Cricket:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Cricket/comments/lq2zh3/cricket_in_...

CA, Symantec, and now VMWare. Doesn't look like the who's who of the cloud world TBH. Shows the limited understanding of the cloud world by a company still primarily run as a hardware factory.

Cloudflare is moving at the speed of light and with the openness of fresh air.

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We at DigitalOcean tend to see a lot of SaaS builders on our cloud. We obviously are smaller as compared to the big 3, but in our experience most people starting out with an idea don't really need all the bells and whistles.

Price-competitive, performant, and easily-automatable IaaS (compute/network/storage), and some managed services on top of it, are sufficient for a vast majority of builders.

I think about this thread all the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22310879

Here is some marketing material with more information: - https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/how-to-scale-your-saas-pro... - https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/forrester-total-economic-i...

I had written down some thought about the various compute options available to run apps. One of my takeaways was exactly this - "Run your own PaaS on Cloud IaaS" seems too much work for too little gain.

https://ramansharma.substack.com/p/multiple-stops-on-the-clo...

In the last decade, a vast majority of DevTools companies have positioned themselves as “A better Heroku.” And yet, when people actually need a Heroku alternative, everything comes up short. This is a testament to a solid product Heroku built. It was definitely ahead of its time.

Are you building any tools, services, etc., that developers utilize for building, deploying, or managing apps and websites?

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Why?

(1) Because developer tools are a special kind of software

Good developer tools help software developers build better software faster. Incremental quality and productivity improvements in software development have ripple effects on all aspects of the global economy (“Software is eating the world” and all that..)

(2) Because DevTools builders are a special breed

They care as much about the “art of software development” as the software itself. That is why they build tools to improve their own lives and those of fellow developers. They are finally getting both acclaim and commercial success.

There isn’t a great place for DevTools builders to come together and engage on the topic of building DevTools.

Why does this site not have a SSL certificate?

Would love to learn more

Some thoughts here: https://www.devprojournal.com/technology-trends/cloud/are-cl...

When I was a programmer, I was never on Twitter, HN, or Reddit.

Stackoverflow maybe sometimes.

When I became a Product Manager, I started voicing opinions on all these forums.

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Ah yes. Fair point.

The data center infrastructure that Facebook (Meta) has is probably in the top 5 in this world (behind only Amazon, Microsoft, Google).

They might want to become a cloud infrastructure provider for some side money and buy themselves some time to figure out this Metaverse fantasy :)

Hey, AWS started because Amazon wanted to lease out their spare infrastructure capacity.

Never underestimate the value of good old servers:

https://ramansharma.substack.com/p/the-case-for-cloud-server...

Would that be true for someone learning containers today?

Agreed. People choose technologies for their own reasons. The full spectrum is surviving and thriving:

https://ramansharma.substack.com/p/multiple-stops-on-the-clo...