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1.4+{{{header(pitch,
1.5+Richard Westhaver,
1.6+ellis@rwest.io,
1.7+The Big Picture)}}}
1.8+
1.9+* Get Off of My Cloud
1.10+ - industry has moved away from client-side, distributed compute in
1.11+ favor of centralized server-side compute resources behind API
1.12+ gateways.
1.13+ - entire businesses are built on a single Cloud Provider and are
1.14+ fundamentally incapable of moving off that Cloud.
1.15+ - they /think/ in terms of that Provider. The Provider influences
1.16+ all of their decisions.
1.17+ - users control very little compute power
1.18+ - personal computing hardware (consumer-grade) is limited in capability
1.19+ - non-servicable architectures, planned obsolescence, closed firmware
1.20+ - mainstream operating systems don't optimize for resource
1.21+ efficiency - they maximize for the volume of telemetry data they
1.22+ can collect and profit from
1.23+
1.24+* Death of the Programmer
1.25+ - The role of the programmer is changing
1.26+ - programmers are no longer required to understand how computers
1.27+ work to have a successful career
1.28+ - Cloud Providers wrap all low-level details in their own
1.29+ proprietary vocabulary and APIs
1.30+ - To program on the cloud, you need to use the Cloud vocabulary
1.31+ and are discouraged from thinking of computers as they actually
1.32+ exist in the real world
1.33+ - Cloud Providers influence college cirruculums, replacing compute
1.34+ and systems theory with courses designed to teach you how to
1.35+ configure Cloud Services.
1.36+