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Services get more fine-grained every year, and composition of these services is where the money will be made in the future. AI might resolve some of the issues with finding the right services for the right use cases & even integrating them.

Custom, home-made services will be a conscious choice, and might be composed of other services that are publicly available or not. Everything else will use off-the-shelf services.

My .02€



I dunno, I see the pendulum swinging back again. Or it might just be my contrariness. But building anything decent out of stitching together various third-party services with the baling twine and duct-tape of HTTP... it's not going to end well, and I think people are realising this.




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