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competely agree.

its one thing to serialise your states to json. quite another to try and recreate javascript or any other low permission language in it.

I know _why_ they did it, and i bet a fair few pure managerial types fall for the bait and commission a project or thousand on it, locking themselves in to amazons absurd pricing model for production systems. But everyones got to make a buck eh.

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Do you remember when XML was all the rage, and we had silly implementations of pretty much everything using XML? For no good reason other than the fact that it was XML. Then everybody moved to JSON because it was simpler.

Well, it seems history is being repeated. Just because something exists that a lot of people use doesn't mean you need to build everything on top of it.

Yeah, we still have a few critical components that serialise to xml rather than json, although they have mostly been replaced.

What's new this time is the pricing model. It used to be we could run what we wanted on our own hardware on our own time. SaaS is new, mostly impossible to pirate (hacking AWS keys aside), and priced to make your eyes water.

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