Comment by salawat

Tbe funny thing is, as a long time SDET, I had to give up trying to get people to write or architect in a more "local first" manner.

Everyone thinks the network is free... Until it isn't. Every bit move in a computer has a time cost, and yes, it's small... But... When you have processors as fast as what exist today, it seems a sin that we delegate so much functionality out to some other machine across a network boundary when the same work could be done locally. The reason why though?

Monetizability and trust. All trivial computation must be done on my services so they can be metered and charged for.

We're hamstringing the programs we run for the sole reason that we don't want to make tools. We want to make invoices.