alt Hacker NewsThe change from no moat -> a really big moat is the the migration of more and more coding to the cloud.
The more of your development setup is running in the cloud, I think it will be really hard to justify leaving. Certainly the cloud will for the next couple years be cheaper (credits, economies of scale etc).
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renehsz • today at 3:37 AM
> Certainly the cloud will for the next couple years be cheaper (credits, economies of scale etc).
Developing in the cloud is not cheaper than developing on hardware you already own though.
But yes, if you count the capex of acquiring new hardware, cloud is often cheaper.
The hardware of cloud environments feels like a real limiting factor for serious work. It isn't hard for 4 vCPU and 16 GB to become a bottleneck on compilation or running tests, especially integration tests with multiple containers involved.