1 #+title: the big picture
2 #+author: Richard Westhaver <ellis@rwest.io>
3 #+setupfile: ../../clean.theme
5 - industry has moved away from client-side, distributed compute in
6 favor of centralized server-side compute resources behind API
8 - entire businesses are built on a single Cloud Provider and are
9 fundamentally incapable of moving off that Cloud.
10 - they
/think/ in terms of that Provider. The Provider influences
11 all of their decisions.
12 - users control very little compute power
13 - personal computing hardware (consumer-grade) is limited in capability
14 - non-servicable architectures, planned obsolescence, closed firmware
15 - mainstream operating systems don't optimize for resource
16 efficiency - they maximize for the volume of telemetry data they
17 can collect and profit from
19 * Death of the Programmer 20 - The role of the programmer is changing
21 - programmers are no longer required to understand how computers
22 work to have a successful career
23 - Cloud Providers wrap all low-level details in their own
24 proprietary vocabulary and APIs
25 - To program on the cloud, you need to use the Cloud vocabulary
26 and are discouraged from thinking of computers as they actually
27 exist in the real world
28 - Cloud Providers influence college cirruculums, replacing compute
29 and systems theory with courses designed to teach you how to
30 configure Cloud Services.
