[andrewvc]

I mean, I get the idea behind these platforms without building your own platform services. However, if you actually plan on growing as a company it would seem to me these services have very specific walls in terms of functionality. I've never worked to the company reported that didn't wind up leaning on things like complex SQL queries and other abstractions that these people are telling us we don't need.

I can see how this would work for a limited set of apps that only have simple API needs. Given that, it's perplexing that they would make such ridiculous claims and it's hard to take them seriously. When you just want to run a simple report using a SQL closet and have to tables and uses a fancy GROUP BY, you will be left out in the cold and have to run a gigantic batch job in whatever programming language you use to figure this out. I am not impressed.