From Renting Machines by the Hour to Renting Capabilities by the MSeconds
summary
Argues that cloud billing shifts from hours to value, from VMs to APIs and tokens, claiming teams now compose product features from tiny billed capabilities. Shows a working thumbnail-resize pipeline built on Lambda and S3, cites trillions of Lambda calls and startups running with no dedicated infra, notes it takes ~14 minutes to wire an LLM and points to LLMs, vector DBs, Cloudflare Workers and Vercel as the tooling driving a pay by the millisecond world with 300+ PoPs.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 3:55Dev reality 10 years ago
- 6:43Evolution of compute
- 7:26Building software today
- 8:15Act 1: 2015-17: Serverless start
- 10:05Act 2: 2018-21: Great unbundling
- 11:42Act 3: 2022-25: Capability economy
- 12:55The new developer mindset
- 14:01How to embrace the shift
- 14:33Outro
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