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Paul Modderman's avatar

As a totally unbiased reader, I can say that this newsletter is always filled to the brim with goodies!

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JustinTalingdan's avatar

I never knew about Regex Toy! This is such a time saver.

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Paul Modderman's avatar

Isn't it? So glad Jelena pointed it out.

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Rudra's avatar

I using a nice search machine with AI-Support with has nice results, It‘s called Neeva. For some strong customising in a UI5 Controller I asking the chat GTP for some support, because it‘s kind of complex job: the Chat GTP failed in complete, hahaha.

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Paul Modderman's avatar

The relative lack of UI5 code on the web versus other, more popular frameworks, is a bit of a problem for the code-helper bots, that's for sure. We need more UI5 developers to publicly publish code examples, so the bots can learn!

(and ABAP and other SAP tech pieces)

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Rudra's avatar

That’s true.

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Colby Hemond's avatar

I feel like the cloud has been an amazing thing for getting ideas actually up and running in as little as minutes. But like all things there’s the opportunity costs. Cloud is just another version of outsourcing. Sure it’s cheap up front, but sometimes the long term effects can be costly. But then you should just adjust as needed, and find the perfect balance, right? We e seen major companies outsource their entire IT divisions and then a year or two later bring their IT back in house. I see Cloud vs OnPrem as the same kind of strategic decision.

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Paul Modderman's avatar

From the infrastructure perspective I can understand the dilemma here. From a platform (PaaS) perspective is where things really go skewing wildly towards the cloud advantage.

Yes, it is possible to invent or use open-source or third-party things that are the equivalent of AWS Lambda/Google Cloud Functions (for example), or any of the other fast-to-provision and easy-to-manage platform-y things like distributed databases. But...why not just plug in and rip with that stuff? Making it easy to build up and tear down applications at ninja-lightning speed is an advantage that you can work with MUCH easier with hyperscaler platform services than running them yourself.

I think the dimension you should judge yourself on with a hosting/cloud decision is experimental agility. Make it easy and fast to prove something (in)correct.

This comment sort of reads like I'm disagreeing with you, Colby - but I'm actually agreeing with you. Just...you know...by ignoring most of the substance of what you wrote and standing on a soapbox of my own. :)

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Colby Hemond's avatar

Haha I totally see where you are coming from and I agree. I would think DHH will continue to use cloud at the start to spin up some ideas, but he’s probably going to think more strategically having learned from his mistakes with Hey being 100% cloud.

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