The infrastructure and people that 'back end' your organization have value. This is intuitively true, but for the folks who are customer facing (and often senior management) there is often a minimization of that value.
Open source really cut the cost of that back end, and reinforced the uninformed opinion that this stuff wasn't worth all that much.
Once you're tied to a platform, because it's "cost effective", that platform can then say, "Okay, now it's time to start charging you for the real value we provide." That leaves the operations folks going to management saying "Hey our costs are going way up, kthxbye" And usually starts an uncomfortable education cycle where the real cost of running the business gets penciled out. Sometimes it kills companies.
The <thing><as a service> provider gets to set pretty much an arbitrary price on their value.
If you have followed the saga of Music you know that the "labels" who hold all the copyrights (generally) always win at keeping all the money for themselves and thus kill business after business that would help the artists. This as-a-service(AAS) companies can do the same thing. It's one of the interesting things for me about 0xide and making 'on prem' a thing again.
It feels like another shift is coming and this is a preview of what the motivations for the shift will be.
And lastly I'm not a fan of AI generated illustrations in a blog post.
Why not? I thought that the illustrations fit the article better than the bland and irrelevant stock photos people usually use.
As an aside: I figure that in about 3-4 years, no one will be able to assert that they do or don’t like AI generated art because there won’t be any way to know if it’s man made, machine made, or reality.
I'm going to disagree, it will be trivial in 3-4 years to recognize that no one blogging is going to make enough money from blogging to pay a human artist to do illustrations. :-)
The infrastructure and people that 'back end' your organization have value. This is intuitively true, but for the folks who are customer facing (and often senior management) there is often a minimization of that value.
Open source really cut the cost of that back end, and reinforced the uninformed opinion that this stuff wasn't worth all that much.
Once you're tied to a platform, because it's "cost effective", that platform can then say, "Okay, now it's time to start charging you for the real value we provide." That leaves the operations folks going to management saying "Hey our costs are going way up, kthxbye" And usually starts an uncomfortable education cycle where the real cost of running the business gets penciled out. Sometimes it kills companies.
The <thing><as a service> provider gets to set pretty much an arbitrary price on their value.
If you have followed the saga of Music you know that the "labels" who hold all the copyrights (generally) always win at keeping all the money for themselves and thus kill business after business that would help the artists. This as-a-service(AAS) companies can do the same thing. It's one of the interesting things for me about 0xide and making 'on prem' a thing again.
It feels like another shift is coming and this is a preview of what the motivations for the shift will be.
And lastly I'm not a fan of AI generated illustrations in a blog post.