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I love the hand drawn chart. Apparently "Open Source" was invented around 2005, which significantly reduced development cost, then AWS was invented in 2011 or s

I love the hand drawn chart. Apparently "Open Source" was invented around 2005, which significantly reduced development cost, then AWS was invented in 2011 or so and made development even cheaper, but then, oh no, in 2018 "complexity" happened and development became harder!

zqna 11mo ago
In 2018 We had kubernetes, which improved the development speed another 300%!
- RajT88 11mo ago
  Kubernetes with production workloads allowed companies to finally realize the "fail fast" ethos.
  - nrhrjrjrjtntbt 11mo ago
    With Kubernetes this hated it must be boring enough to safely start using!
    - tormeh 11mo ago
      It's boring, alright. You're gonna curse this moment when you realize you've become a yaml engineer. Actually, I bet AI is pretty good at creating those damn manifests. It's mostly regurgitation after all.
jcelerier 11mo ago
I don't read this as when open-source was invented, but when it happened for the corporate world. In 2002 it was a very reasonable choice for $BIG_COMPANY to use a proprietary web server, e.g. IIS. In 2008 that would have been really be weird.
- CobrastanJorji 11mo ago
  But why did that make development cheaper? An enterprise copy of Windows with IIS cost maybe a thousand bucks, right? Maybe there were more costs, my knowledge is, y'know, 23 years out of date.
  - hnfong 11mo ago
    You decide you need a web server. Ask management chain for approval. Ask IT dept for approval. Ask finance for approval for the expense. Contact Microsoft sales. Buy it. Now you can start developing on it… With open source it’s not just the cost of software you save, but also potentially all the other bureaucracy that you save due to not having to pay money to do something. You also get a lot of transparency on the technical side about the products you may choose to use.
  - theshrike79 11mo ago
    Oracle has entered the chat. If MySQL and Postgresql had been acceptables choices 25 years ago, our company at the time would've saved SO MUCH money that now went to fund Larry Ellison's yacht(s). Both existed, but not in a way anyone could sell to a) customers b) C-staff making the final call.
- lelanthran 11mo ago
  In the 90s windows was shipping with components cribbed from open source (and properly attributed). It's not something new.
khannn 11mo ago
AI drawn chart and AI written article

zqna 11mo ago

In 2018 We had kubernetes, which improved the development speed another 300%!

RajT88 11mo ago
Kubernetes with production workloads allowed companies to finally realize the "fail fast" ethos.
- nrhrjrjrjtntbt 11mo ago
  With Kubernetes this hated it must be boring enough to safely start using!
  - tormeh 11mo ago
    It's boring, alright. You're gonna curse this moment when you realize you've become a yaml engineer. Actually, I bet AI is pretty good at creating those damn manifests. It's mostly regurgitation after all.

jcelerier 11mo ago

I don't read this as when open-source was invented, but when it happened for the corporate world. In 2002 it was a very reasonable choice for $BIG_COMPANY to use a proprietary web server, e.g. IIS. In 2008 that would have been really be weird.

CobrastanJorji 11mo ago
But why did that make development cheaper? An enterprise copy of Windows with IIS cost maybe a thousand bucks, right? Maybe there were more costs, my knowledge is, y'know, 23 years out of date.
- hnfong 11mo ago
  You decide you need a web server. Ask management chain for approval. Ask IT dept for approval. Ask finance for approval for the expense. Contact Microsoft sales. Buy it. Now you can start developing on it… With open source it’s not just the cost of software you save, but also potentially all the other bureaucracy that you save due to not having to pay money to do something. You also get a lot of transparency on the technical side about the products you may choose to use.
- theshrike79 11mo ago
  Oracle has entered the chat. If MySQL and Postgresql had been acceptables choices 25 years ago, our company at the time would've saved SO MUCH money that now went to fund Larry Ellison's yacht(s). Both existed, but not in a way anyone could sell to a) customers b) C-staff making the final call.
lelanthran 11mo ago
In the 90s windows was shipping with components cribbed from open source (and properly attributed). It's not something new.

khannn 11mo ago

AI drawn chart and AI written article