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1.4+#+title: the big picture
1.5+#+author: Richard Westhaver <ellis@rwest.io>
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1.7+* Get Off of My Cloud
1.8+ - industry has moved away from client-side, distributed compute in
1.9+ favor of centralized server-side compute resources behind API
1.10+ gateways.
1.11+ - entire businesses are built on a single Cloud Provider and are
1.12+ fundamentally incapable of moving off that Cloud.
1.13+ - they /think/ in terms of that Provider. The Provider influences
1.14+ all of their decisions.
1.15+ - users control very little compute power
1.16+ - personal computing hardware (consumer-grade) is limited in capability
1.17+ - non-servicable architectures, planned obsolescence, closed firmware
1.18+ - mainstream operating systems don't optimize for resource
1.19+ efficiency - they maximize for the volume of telemetry data they
1.20+ can collect and profit from
1.21+
1.22+* Death of the Programmer
1.23+ - The role of the programmer is changing
1.24+ - programmers are no longer required to understand how computers
1.25+ work to have a successful career
1.26+ - Cloud Providers wrap all low-level details in their own
1.27+ proprietary vocabulary and APIs
1.28+ - To program on the cloud, you need to use the Cloud vocabulary
1.29+ and are discouraged from thinking of computers as they actually
1.30+ exist in the real world
1.31+ - Cloud Providers influence college cirruculums, replacing compute
1.32+ and systems theory with courses designed to teach you how to
1.33+ configure Cloud Services.
1.34+