alt Hacker NewsFirst minio and then localstack, as an open source maintainer I find that abandoning their community is bad faith. I totally get wanting to monetize but removing the free product entirely feels like such a betrayel.
Luckily, I've been vibing with Devin since this started having it build a cleanbox emulator on top of real s3 tuned for my specific use case. It's a lot less general but it's much faster and easy to add the sort of assertions I need in it. It's no localstack but for my limited use case it works.
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> I totally get wanting to monetize
Yup, unfortunately people need to eat.
Yeah these moves will gain them a year or so but all these companies built on a "takes time to implement library" are all dead in the water. Localstack has nothing fancy, it just takes time to build. And that moat is gone, it's maybe 4 weekends of token quotas I wouldn't use anyway.
It does feel like a betrayal. We live in a world where money is the main thing that matters and it's increasingly hard to come by and you need increasingly more of it (these are all designed policies, not emergent behavior). It makes sense that people don't want to do things for free unless they already have enough money.
Engineers who remained apolitical are now surprised the politics is bad.