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I'm sorry but there was a lot of jargon thrown around and circumnavigating standard problems in data consistency but no real takeaway or upshot. Felt like a chatgpt article

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The takeaway seems to be "you must pay for every query and for every bit and byte we hold and transact for you", here's a list of companies you probably never heard of before (Upstash, Momento, Stellate, Xata), some with unsearchable names (Convex, Temporal, Trigger), pay them to have your database locked arbitrarily or whenever they somehow reach unicorn status and will be too big to reply to your emails.

Accessing the website of any of the listed companies, the Pricing page in the header is predictably there: everyone is looking for a rent. Just to be a contrarian, because I just can't believe all these companies are making significant money, perhaps it's time for a return to the pay-for-binary model in such an Everything as a (payable) Service world: here's the blob for a nice database (or whatever), pay $1,000 (or maybe even $10,000, $100,000) and the current version is yours forever.

But if you don't get your well-funded company to pony up for these SaaSes, highly paid dev positions at companies like these are going to dwindle, reducing labour market demand, and dev wages will fall!

I think you're mostly right, but I will drop an asterisk: Temporal is self-hostable and is incredibly good. Like, I am pretty convinced that for the classes of problems it addresses around offline/the-customer-isn't-waiting workflow management, it is the Correct Way To Do Things. I'd never have them white-label AWS to host my stuff, but it's great.

Indeed.

> Felt like a chatgpt article

I think its even worse than that.

What would that be?

A VC grifter article?

GPT-2?

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