[lawrjone]

I wouldn't say this applies to cloud providers, they have a very different business on their hands.

But for SaaS in general I think the trend is noticeable? Twitter led the way with massive layoffs in engineering often in the roles around reliability. The industry as a whole have aimed to cut costs however possible, and reliability/ops is usually seen as a cost-centre that gets hit hard.

I've watched this in my own space (start/scale-ups and larger companies, I work in incident response tooling) as people start talking very differently about reliability and engineering investment. You hear "do more with less" about five times every day and spend that was previously greenlit by default around reliability/redundancy is under much more scrutiny now.

I see this as a silent mirror of the reduction in open-source efforts from companies now there's been a refocus on business impact and bottom-line.