Apologies for the typo

India is already languishing at the bottom in terms of press freedom. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2F... This news can be interpreted as further limiting the press' freedom in the country. India is rapidly descending into a dark place with very limited freedoms for its citizens. What's spectacular is that most of the Indians are loving this descend, cause they are being peddled propaganda left right and center.

The current push by the cloud providers is provide "PostgreSQL compatible" data stores which have much higher performance numbers. They don't help or encourage engineers to optimise their PG setup. So basically, people are happy to use closed source, hosted databases. It is worse than buying Oracle licenses - at least then you ran them on prem. Now you run a closed source db on their servers.

Couldn't agree more with the article. I totally agree with the problem is that even developers can become lazy and just want to "yolo shipit" the application to the amazon/gcp/azure mainframe. The management only later cops on that devs are burning cash and then they start to burn cash by asking the developers to "optimise" to reduce the cloud bill - and that requires a redesign of the core components of the application.

It's possible that eventually the internet will be thought of as a source of spam, nothing but spam. People will eventually stop reading anything on their phones and websites, and will only depend on printed, edited, reviewed books and magazines. Think of a scene from blade runner street where to show that a person has "lost it", they show that person "reading" stuff off a device.

That's the breaking news