Cloud will continue to evolve massively with AI, as vendors offer more specialized infra and software abstractions, but the salient point is that in Europe we haven't even been able to build the first 10% of what providers like Amazon, Microsoft or Google offer. Hetzner was only "considering" a managed Postgres offering, last time I checked, ffs...
My take is that capital in Europe is (a) way too risk-averse and (b) fragmented across many European countries... As much as I've always sympathized with the EU, "Europe" as a single entity is a fucking lie, an illusion in our collective minds.
Try building a business in Spain, and then expanding to France. Yes, you have free movement of capital and labor to help you - which is a massive foundation - but after that all you'll find is red tape and difficulties emanating from the differences in culture and language.
Similarly, it seems impossible to privately amass the amount of capital needed for an investment such as what is needed to "make the first 10% of what AWS offers".
The only alternative is through continent-wide industrial policy, Draghi style[1]. More power to the bureaucrats in Brussels, and more taxes than we're already paying - and we're fucking suffocating already down here. No thanks!
This is why the future looks dire. My only hope is that maybe with AI software development becomes cheaper and we can all build more services in-house. But please someone give us at least the first 10-20% most useful cloud abstractions. I wouldn't want to waste even the compute-time of my AI engineers in building a resilient managed Postgres.
My take is that capital in Europe is (a) way too risk-averse and (b) fragmented across many European countries... As much as I've always sympathized with the EU, "Europe" as a single entity is a fucking lie, an illusion in our collective minds.
Try building a business in Spain, and then expanding to France. Yes, you have free movement of capital and labor to help you - which is a massive foundation - but after that all you'll find is red tape and difficulties emanating from the differences in culture and language.
Similarly, it seems impossible to privately amass the amount of capital needed for an investment such as what is needed to "make the first 10% of what AWS offers".
The only alternative is through continent-wide industrial policy, Draghi style[1]. More power to the bureaucrats in Brussels, and more taxes than we're already paying - and we're fucking suffocating already down here. No thanks!
This is why the future looks dire. My only hope is that maybe with AI software development becomes cheaper and we can all build more services in-house. But please someone give us at least the first 10-20% most useful cloud abstractions. I wouldn't want to waste even the compute-time of my AI engineers in building a resilient managed Postgres.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draghi_report