Let’s not romanticize it too much... A lot of enterprise systems are built by developers copying an old AbstractBeanFactoryFactory from a 2011 stack overflow thread without really understanding it :)
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Key sectors could take the hit, including automotive manufacturing, industrial equipment, chemicals, electronics, fashion, textiles, and luxury food and wine.
Given that these nations are already managing high debt loads while funding generous social welfare programs and expanding their defense budgets, trade sanctions could cause serious damage...
So yeah...EU is performing a delicate balancing act here.
Plus, you can't really build loyalty on a 100 USD/Y price tag. Since there are no switching costs holding them back, those buyers will leave the moment somebody offers a lower rate. An easily cloned, low cost tool with zero customer lock in is not a business. It is a feature.
That might sound great for the buyer (you), but it is a terrible strategy if we want a European company to compete long term against global competitors on actual product merit instead of just regulatory arbitrage.
Also, don't get me started on the newer functions such as XLOOKUP and Dynamic... Relational data belongs in a relational database. If you are joining tables and filtering massive arrays, you should be using standard SQL Arrays, it makes it so much easier to troubleshoot long term.
And let's be honest, a lot of folks in IT aren't exactly top performers and don't seem to care all that much. It's really the developers you find on forums like this who are genuinely passionate. You're not likely to bump into the people actually buying those big Oracle or IBM systems around here though :)
Yeah, the ad supported model has its problems, but it also makes the internet way more accessible. If we think about it, companies and people with more money are basically subsidizing these services for everyone else. They're the ones seeing the ads that keeps the lights on for users who can't afford to pay.
If everything was subscription only, a ton of people like students, low income families, people in developing countries would be shut out. "Free" services, even with their flaws, create a kind of digital subsidy. It's not perfect, but it means way more people can use these tools.
Wind power and other intermittent sources create grid instability, which drives up costs.
And to my knowledge, Germany has chosen not to have different bidding markets within the country (or has at least kept prices consistent across its four markets) to protect vital industries in the west?
I think the rest of us who interact with it don't really fully understand what's going on. We've basically traded one set of scripts only a few folks understood (bash, perl) for Terraform in this case.
I totally see the benefits, but sometimes I feel like we try to force everything into it, even when it might not be the best fit.
Ah yes, time for the annual debate on the complexities of Kubernetes versus the unparalleled genius of custom scripts that seem to work...sometimes. Because reinventing the wheel is always superior to something with a standardized API.
And let's not forget the sheer elegance of a homegrown scripts that rivals the structured approach of Kubernetes. A true testament to intuitive design.
Sure, Kubernetes might have a few minor benefits beyond 'scaling out'. But honestly, who needs the ability to manage complex applications with any semblance of ease?
I could of course do flow control myself in the Cloud Run service, but it'd be nice if I could just switch to pull.
Previous attempts to nationalize companies have not, as far as I know, been a shining success?
Both nuclear, water and gas have the advantage that they're pretty massive and can store energy while they rotate. In the past, these systems were great for the grid because they kept on spinning and were hard to slow down. So, when there was a big load on the grid, like when an industrial plant fired up a huge device that sucked up lots of power, these giant machines took a while to slow down. That meant they could pump some extra power into the grid, at least for short periods.
The realistic option is probably to expand solar and wind power and also set up hydro pumps for storing energy. Alongside that, also invest in SMR reactors and supercapacitor to handle sudden spikes in grid demand.
Regrettably, energy poverty is a new concept we will have to learn in Europe, I'm afraid...
In my opinion, it would have been better for Google to acquire FlutterFlow or something similar instead.
What makes you think that a European company operating within US jurisdiction would not be subject to the same laws?
If the European company receives a request from the US authorities for information, they need to follow the same legislation as the US companies do. Just because it's a subsidiary won't help. The authority will say "we want to know everything you know about the following person, please give us the information, otherwise...". The authority will not distinguish whether it is a subsidiary or the parent company.
Of course have the choice to just ignore the request from US authorities, but then you have to be aware of the consequences, i.e. quickly give up and shut down the subsidiary and stop trading with US dollars.
This is the root of the problem. CLOUD act has been ruled illegal in the EU just as you said, but it is also illegal not to comply with CLOUD act in the US. And companies operating on both continents in practice need to comply with both laws, regardless of whether it is a parent company or a subsidiary.
At least that's how I interpret it...
Imho, as soon as you do business with the US or trade in US Dollars, you need to play nice with the relevant authorities.
If I understood it correctly, Hetzner is now "infected" in the same way as the three US cloud providers are. The Schrems II verdict and Cloud ACT basically concludes that no European company can exist in the US and vice versa without having to deal with the same pesky legislation.
An alternative could of course be that Hetzner created a new US based company where the EU parent Hetzner company only holds a minority ownership in the new US-based company. The EU based parent company in turn then "sells" its technology to the new US company. This way, the arrangement becomes more reminiscent of how IBM has sold its mainframe to European companies...
They don't want to admit it, therefore they often come up with varying arguments such as "the changes comes too fast, hassle to change, you promised it would be free forever, etc)...
Links: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/compute-capacity https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/spanner-has...