[Uehreka]

I mean like, this is fun to say, but y’all know this isn’t actually true right? (Well, the free software part is, but the implication in the first sentence isn’t)

The past 10-15 years has seen enormous growth in eCommerce productivity as a portion of the overall economy (just google “gdp attributed to internet commerce” and similar phrases, there’s tons of data on this). The rise in the number of devops engineers and the amounts businesses spend on AWS hosting are often in service of business models that were simply impossible to even try before cloud computing.

Sure, everyone on HN seems to have a story about an organization going all “architecture astronaut”nuts with Kubernetes and then ending up with slower/more expensive infra, and it’s fun to tell those to each other, but there’s clearly a huge amount of economic activity being enabled here that wasn’t happening before.