It doesn't seem to. My current place is all in on AWS and we have about 6 "DevOps" people dedicated to dealing with it all.
Last place we did pretty similar stuff with 3 data centers, all self hosted, self managed, mostly OSS stuff with about 6 sysadmins and way less hassle.
Batteries usually degrade. That's why people ask this question. We have all been carrying around phones with batteries that start to perform badly enough after a couple years that we end up buying a brand new phone.
Not everybody wants to buy a new phone every couple years, and not everybody agrees what a standard car lifetime is.
I recently managed to get my hands on a non-smart TV and bought a roku stand alone device for it. Mostly because the interface is simple and has been the same for years.
I prefer the moving fast and breaking things to stay away from our limited TV time.
I guess clear market winner depends on what one defines as market.
Anecdotally though, I have been working with medium sized startups in NYC that are heavily API driven for the last several years, and I haven't seen graphQL in production once. Not at my companies, nor in any external API we have interfaced with.
I will even go a step farther and day that I cannot recall a single time that another of the several dozens of devs or managers I have worked with has even mentioned the idea of using it.
I can only assume the market OP is referring to is a very specific one. I could make a guess or two, but wouldn't want to ruin the reader's enjoyment from doing the same.
I read mine also. The lender seemed way more surprised than I would have expected.
Then the title person later was like, "Almost all of this is standardized stuff. It's not really like you can negotiate it at this point."
Whatever, lady, I want to know what I'm signing, I want to see that this version matches the version I already signed last night (it didn't), and for half a million bucks, you can hang out for ten minutes while I do it.
I was interviewing recently, and I asked everybody explicitly about remote. Any places that have wishy-washy answers or seemed enthusiastic to get software devs back into the office, I didn't continue with.
I have no way to know if I influenced anybody's thoughts or actions, but I communicated to everybody involved that I'm only interested in remote work, and told them that others I have spoken to feel the same.
That's not strictly true, I do know some folks that are looking forward to getting back to the office, but I tried to do my part anyway.
I think in a couple years we will be back to a pretty high percentage of positions being onsite. Right now there is a small window of time to really drive home the idea that there is a sizable group of folks who will refuse to commute to an office, and hopefully at least influence the number of future remote opportunities a little bit more in our favor.
This is it. I actually took a small pay cut this year to work for a company that is guaranteed remote friendly.
The peace of mind knowing that these guys already had remote engineers before the pandemic and a good workflow, and having a job that is officially and permanently remote is absolutely worth a few thousand bucks to me.
I was dreading going back to the office, even if only a day or two a week.
Counting the commute I would have otherwise been going back to with my previous company that was super excited to get asses back in seats, I'm probably actually getting paid more per hour of my time dedicated to work activities.
Some things that count as churches may have sprung up to make such offers, but I am assuming most churches have been standing since before Covid, before Facebook, before Trump and Obama and Bush.
If say 40% of people are attending these gatherings, it's a tough sell that they are so far from mainstream as to be countercultural.
People have been visiting churches in search of unity, security, and joy for thousands of years.
In my area, Target is far less crowded and has very short waits at checkout because they actually have people staffing the registers.
Walmart will have one cashier at the special register line where they sell cigarettes, during the dinnertime rush when there are 30 people up front wanting to check out.
Then there will be somebody telling you that if you don't need cigarettes, go wait in the massive line at self checkout.
I don't mind paying a couple percent more for goods if they are paying cashiers with that cash so I can go home sooner.
If those same couple bucks are what is keeping the store and parking lot less crowded... I'll take it. Walmart is a hellhole over here.
We do the same here in the states. Some folks pay for private schools so their kids don't have to be exposed to perceived riff raff, while others choose to live in more expensive neighborhoods where the only benefit is often that there is less riff raff in the public schools.
The existence of stairs is not an attack on disabled people this time.