Comment by friedrich_zip

I get where he is going with this... but idk. Feels like a somewhat mid take. Strong abstractions always means strong vendor lock-in and more power to infrastructure providers. But AWS, Netlify and whoever runs your apps are not your friends. Vertically integrating your infrastructure can be a pretty good source of cost reduction and can create interesting assets if you have good talent in-house. So idk... sometimes the fact that building something takes time and you have to think about how you are going to set it up actually is a good thing, because you take the time to build it right and you end up understanding how everything works together.