1 #+title: the big picture
2 #+author: Richard Westhaver <ellis@rwest.io>
3 #+setupfile: ../clean.theme
6 :ID: 6dbb0064-1421-41bb-b2df-36f694efce0a 8 - industry has moved away from client-side, distributed compute in
9 favor of centralized server-side compute resources behind API
11 - entire businesses are built on a single Cloud Provider and are
12 fundamentally incapable of moving off that Cloud.
13 - they
/think/ in terms of that Provider. The Provider influences
14 all of their decisions.
15 - users control very little compute power
16 - personal computing hardware (consumer-grade) is limited in capability
17 - non-servicable architectures, planned obsolescence, closed firmware
18 - mainstream operating systems don't optimize for resource
19 efficiency - they maximize for the volume of telemetry data they
20 can collect and profit from
22 * Death of the Programmer 24 :ID: 138f4a50-1d52-4e13-bf67-f225ef9f6747 26 - The role of the programmer is changing
27 - programmers are no longer required to understand how computers
28 work to have a successful career
29 - Cloud Providers wrap all low-level details in their own
30 proprietary vocabulary and APIs
31 - To program on the cloud, you need to use the Cloud vocabulary
32 and are discouraged from thinking of computers as they actually
33 exist in the real world
34 - Cloud Providers influence college cirruculums, replacing compute
35 and systems theory with courses designed to teach you how to
36 configure Cloud Services.
