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by api 104 days ago
Big cloud is ludicrously expensive. It’s truly amazing. Bandwidth is even worse. It’s like a 10000X markup.
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sroussey 104 days ago
It’s wild that no one knows just how cheap bandwidth really is. AWS pulled one over on people and it’s like the movie studios still demanding 10% of the top for VHS distribution. Today.
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jbverschoor 104 days ago
That’s with every industry

Make things look like a complicated black box. Make sure it feels scary to roll your own. Hide the core technical skills behind abstracted skills

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api 103 days ago
Cloud has done a truly epically awesome job at this. People are now afraid to set stuff up.
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