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"Self-hostable as a service" is a common pattern because it provides the benefits of as-a-service without the threat of vendor lock-in. Plus you can run the sam
by Kinrany 2y ago
"Self-hostable as a service" is a common pattern because it provides the benefits of as-a-service without the threat of vendor lock-in. Plus you can run the same software in temporary or test environments.
- st3fan 2y agoWhere Vendor can also be an open source project. The cost of moving away from a project like Tau can be equally high as a closed source PaaS of course.
- rrix2 2y agoand if that cost of moving away is high enough, a team or org "locked in" to a FOSS solution can continue to pay humans to support it internally while evaluating off-ramps instead of being told they need to re-arch their cloud stack in three months' time.
- makestuff 2y agoIt will be interesting to see how these companies evolve their business strategy once PE/VCs are pressuring them to IPO/get bought out. It seems like any customer that is large enough to have significant billing would just bring the platform in house instead of paying for the hosted version. I guess they could take the docker desktop approach with their licensing that >X million in revenue still requires a license of some sort.
- hosh 2y agoThey are using technologies such that the system can self-heal, and self-deploy (with auto discovery) ... so there's a misalignment of incentives for the product and a hosting business. I like the ideas they are trying, so I wish the best of luck to them. Hopefully, they'll find a business model that is better aligned with the product.
- godzillabrennus 2y agoMaybe they’ll become consultants helping big customers use the platform to fund its development.
- echelon 2y agoAmazon and the hyperscalers will eventually pick something like this up and offer it for free.