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And yet we've never seen anyone beat Amazon yet. Look at how much the PaaS area has churned over the last 10 years. Giants that stuck around like Docker are c

And yet we've never seen anyone beat Amazon yet. Look at how much the PaaS area has churned over the last 10 years. Giants that stuck around like Docker are completely deflated and near worthless compared to their initial values and expectations. The smart ones like Heroku got out when the getting was good.

musingsole 6y ago
> And yet we've never seen anyone beat Amazon yet. That largely depends on your definitions of "beat" and "win". There are plenty of software infrastructure firms out there that Amazon has yet to smash into the ground. Nature seems to think (and I agree) simply existing is winning.
- kyawzazaw 6y ago
  Please give examples. I would like to learn more about it (even if subjective)
  - musingsole 6y ago
    DigitalOcean is a competitor of comparable size (even if its like a pebble to a boulder): https://finance.yahoo.com/news/blavatnik-backed-digitalocean-sinks-775-170108292.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/blavatnik-backed-digitalocean...
    - mewpmewp2 6y ago
      I use Digital Ocean and definitely vouch for them. They are way cheaper compared to AWS too. Nice, slick UI too.