Fascinating answer frm @patio11's AMA:
Q: What has surprised you most about the evolution of SaaS in the past decade?
A: I'm surprised that Heroku's model didnt win over AWS' model and that DevOps is accordingly a core competence at most SaaS companies.https://capiche.com/ama/patrick-mckenzie-stripe …
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Also AWS just ran away with the game execution-wise. You'd have expected them to outrun Heroku; that's the default. Would you have expected them to outrun Google? By a commanding margin? And for their most credible alternative to be... noted nimble innovator Microsoft?!
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I do wonder if another factor is how the space has played out making it hard at time for any herokuesque player to win. But need to get thoughts together more first
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Agree with this, and surprised Heroku didn't win non-enterprise market. New startups and side projects shouldn't be dealing with the complexity of AWS. There is still room for a Heroku-like offering built on top of AWS that gives people an option to transition to AWS at scale.
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how important is the "safely graduate to AWS" feature in your mind? because I dont think any of the "New Heroku" startups allow this. I suspect it's one of those features people think they want, but when they get there they find it's not worth doing. Kind of like with Shopify
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well, is there any software core competencies that have been outsourced ?
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AWS being infrastructure, so outside "software". Databases, but mostly because it's bundled in the cloud ?
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