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I've always been an indie hacker, more adept at building applications/front ends than infrastructure and devops, so things like Netlify, Zeit Now, Firebase etc

I've always been an indie hacker, more adept at building applications/front ends than infrastructure and devops, so things like Netlify, Zeit Now, Firebase etc make a lot of sense to me because they abstract those parts away. I've recently started at my first enterprise contract (10+ years into my career) in the cloud team (as a front-end engineer building the interface to a cloud console) and am amazed at the level of resources poured into infrastructure and devops. I'm obviously new to enterprise - and there are probably reasons I'm not aware of that prevent them from going all in on things like static site hosts and managed infrastructure - but I do feel that there's a lot of room for enterprise to shift in this direction.

pm90 7y ago
Enterprises have infrastructure teams because they have applications that need to solve business logic that cannot be solved by static sites alone. Even the simplest businesses invest in data processing pipelines to extract value from their data. When the scale of data processing becomes very large, they need to rearchitect their systems in different ways to better handle that kind of traffic. So it helps to have in house infrastructure teams that can somewhat consolidate and invest in long term planning and architecture for computer systems and services required by these enterprises.
swyx 7y ago
when you say "shift in this direction" do you reckon your client would adopt a managed solution like Netlify/Zeit, or to build some custom solution in-house like PayPal[1] did? 1: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/jamstack-enterprise/ https://www.infoq.com/presentations/jamstack-enterprise/