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by manojlds 635 days ago
Why do I even ha e to use this saas? This should be a open source lib or just a practice that I implement myself.
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Implement it yourself then and save your $$ at the expense of your time.
If you factor in dealing with somebody's black box code 6 months into a project, you'll realise you're saving both money and time.
It's not complicated as you make it. There are numerous caching libraries, and databases have been a thing for decades.
Like this is not a big thing to implement, that's my point. There are already libraries like OpenLLMetry and sink to a DB. We are doing something like this already.
Yes, the ol' Dropbox "you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account" comment. Even after 17 years, people still feel the need to make this point.
So they can charge you for it.