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I think this, combined with Heroku, marks end of an era.

These tools built themselves on being free (as in beer) up to a certain extent, and now they're big enough, and trust their momentum, so they change their stance.

This will inevitably create some changes, both how they perceived and being developed, but we'll see...

However, web application development is much easier and scalable infrastructure is democratized now. Their moat may not be as robust as they imagine.

This will get interesting.



They may not immediately recognize it, but they are “cashing out the social capital”




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