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Technology Adoption Life-cycle
- tannhaeuser 9y agoIMHO it's worth to point out that IT "innovations" in this decade are born out of maturing internet economies rather than driven by end-user demand and technology limitations. For example, the push for "the cloud" and "solutions" like Docker (and the obscene complexity of orchestration tools around it) mostly benefit cloud providers who want to sell large amounts of containers, which they can offer at really low cost due to the increased density afforded by Docker compared to dedicated or virtual servers. At the same time, they can't be held responsible for eg. DNS miconfigurations or basic QoS issues. But those thousands of containers replace a small cluster of Apache servers because everything has to be "web-scale". In effect, it's becoming much more expensive to run a web backend due to staffing cost alone. Another trend has been the appification of the Web, resulting solely from the desire to sell SaaS solutions due to the decline in end-user software sales.