As a happy Zerodha user since 2017, I agree with all of this. Even if the pandemic would not have happened, Zerodha would still be India's largest, most profitable broker.
Potentially the most useful part of this post to me was this part
> 2ndQuadrant is working on highly efficient upgrades from earlier major releases, starting with 9.1 → 9.5/9.6.
I hadn't heard of that before. Anybody know more about this? I'm currently babysitting a 9.1 deployment which we desperately want to get upgraded. The amount of downtime this can tolerate a very limited and I was currently tasked with coming up with a plan. Its going to get hairy. If such a tool is really on its way, I could make a case for holding off on the upgrade for a few more months and save quite a bit of work.
Yeah, I've seen multiple folks putting off reserved instance commitments and continuing to pay on-demand costs since they don't want to get locked in for a year. Its a serious commitment for smaller companies.
The No-Upfront reservation options that AWS last year helped narrow the difference quite a bit - but Google automatic discounts for sustained use are so much better and less complicated for users.
Geographic reach is the significant thing holding GCP back at this point - despite being ahead on the tech. Not having a Singapore presence (or anything closer to India) basically kills it as a serious option for many Indian companies. I personally know of a couple of startups personally who would have loved to use GCP since they actually want to use things like BigQuery, but went with AWS due to this.
They have so far just mentioned they are adding two regions soon - but nothing about where. I fear its just additional options in Europe or something ... 2017 is still too far out for a startup considering options today.
Edit: Oh .... looks like I missed the announcement that the two new regions are Tokyo and Oregon. Looks like India is out of luck for now.
Well there are are attempts to setup that kind of infrastructure e.g. http://www.flywheel.com You are correct that the industry as a whole needs to get behind it rather than fragmenting efforts across cities/fleets etc.
Trello is a great product. Its great that you find it useful and worth paying for. But you lost me right here..
>it’s paid and it won’t disappear overnight.
Thats a gross simplification. Perhaps your company paying for trello, and you blogging about it, makes it a little bit more likely that Trello will stick around and will "succeed". But it certainly does not do much to _guarantee_ that they will hang around for however long you want to use it. Much larger paid-for services have disappeared. The best that they can guarantee you is that they will try to make your data available to you in some form if they ever go away.
Apple deserves a lot of credit for their support for WebKit, particularly in its early days. But even old time apple webkit devs will readily admit that the existence of Mozilla made WebKit much more viable back in the day. Mac's had practically no marketshare during those days. The fact that Mozilla existed and had a reasonable amount of marketshare across platforms made it possible for Apple to ship anything other than IE as a default browser on Mac. Mozilla maintained the incentive for webdevs to support non-IE browsers, and use standards-compliant CSS. Desktop Safari as a default browser would not have been a viable product if so many webdevs had not already worked to make their sites work well with Gecko/Firefox. Webkit sends "like Gecko" in its user-agent string for a very good reason.
In other words, a lot of the web kept using standards (and not IE proprietary stuff) since they wanted to work in Mozilla browsers. And all of this content tended to also work well in webkit as well. This made Safari useful and viable. So, its at least somewhat reasonable to say that Mozilla and Firefox are perhaps primarily responsible for keeping the desktop browser market open for non-IE products. Their existence and marketshare allowed the newer browsers to compete on the basis features and performance and not be hobbled by poor website compatibility.