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