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by ericclemmons 3323 days ago
What's exciting to me, having tested graph.cool and others, they are fantastic at providing an API in a format that works quite well (GraphQL) and handing the admin for me.

I don't want to build admin anymore.

Frankly, I'll spend more money at the service with the best admin UX.

It's like MixPanel for analytics. I can perform complex queries and analysis with minimal friction, which makes it worth the cost.

"Owning" isn't a selling point for me, when all of the services make it possible to dump the data.

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Thank you ericclemmons.

The Andreesen Horrowitz Podcast has an interesting episode talking about this trend of specialised services removing one pain-point after the other, enabling a small company to focus on their core differentiator.

http://a16z.com/2016/09/01/microservices/