[cmrdporcupine]

Yeah I think there's wisdom to what you're saying.

I do think there was a deficit before that this wave of stuff is working to remedy. In the mid-2000s, companies like Google and Amazon had a competitive advantage because they had the inhouse talent and $$ to build e.g. Bigtable, MapReduce, Dremel, Borg, etc. before anybody else had those tools. Then there was an awkward few years (early - mid 2010s) where everyone and their dog was trying to clone those in the open source space. And now we're in a situation where there's startups whose whole business model is structured around providing "big data" or "data transformation" etc. tools etc. They look like compelling places to work, on account of the interesting work they do, but I worry about their viability.

[contingencies]

Enterprise SaaS has peaked.