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I recently helped build a powerapps app from Microsoft and there are lots of foot guns and just janky things. Lots of vendor lock-in and paying extra for thing
by kingkongjaffa 4y ago
I recently helped build a powerapps app from Microsoft and there are lots of foot guns and just janky things.
Lots of vendor lock-in and paying extra for things like access to a proper database etc.
For the price of the license fees for a few 100’s of users you could pay a dev to build something better bespoke.
- dijit 4y agoI will be crucified for saying this: but this is how I (as a sysadmin/DevOps/SRE) feel about the cloud. Lots of vendor lock-in, lots of overpaying for simple things. Why is this any different than that?
- munchler 4y agoBecause hardware is a commodity in a way that software most definitely is not.
- dijit 4y agoCloud is much more than hardware though, it’s security APIs and object storage, networking etc; things that used to require a human to configure. Cloud offers about 80% of what physical hardware provided before, but it was enough that nearly all people moved to the cloud. Anyway, I think you miss my point, a lot of dev work is either creative in its core (web design) or gluing APIs together. No-code can get you a really long way in theory, how would that not be a commodity at that point? It only needs to be 80% useful and it will be ubiquitous.