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Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?

(martinalderson.com)
413 points martinald | 4 comments | 08 Dec 25 19:00 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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CobrastanJorji ◴[08 Dec 25 22:47 UTC] No.46198710[source]▶
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!
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1. zqna ◴[08 Dec 25 22:52 UTC] No.46198774[source]▶
In 2018 We had kubernetes, which improved the development speed another 300%!
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2. RajT88 ◴[08 Dec 25 23:04 UTC] No.46198907[source]▶
Kubernetes with production workloads allowed companies to finally realize the "fail fast" ethos.
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3. nrhrjrjrjtntbt ◴[08 Dec 25 23:45 UTC] No.46199313[source]▶
With Kubernetes this hated it must be boring enough to safely start using!
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4. tormeh ◴[09 Dec 25 00:02 UTC] No.46199489{3}[source]▶
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.