12/ So why the shortfall? At a high level...
◙ There are fewer active gamers than years ago (E.g. Circana reports 79% of Americans played games in 2020, but by 2022, it was down to 73%, the same as in 2019)
◙ Retained players are playing less (Circana reports Americans played an average of 14.8 hours in 2020, 16.5 in... See more
Up until last Friday, it seemed like HashiCorp had this balance just right. They did so by making most functionality open source, but reserving some functionality solely for their commercial products, such as Terraform Cloud and Terraform Enterprise. With this approach, the Terraform community grew, companies that used Terraform grew, and, of... See more
For example, many architects favor not being locked into a database vendor or cloud provider. However, how likely is a switch really? Maybe 5%, or even lower? How much will it cost you to bring that switching cost down from let's say $50,000 (for a semi-manual migration) to near zero? Likely a lot more than the $2,500 ($50,000 x 5%) you can expect... See more