“Scalability and high availability is everything that matters” you are probably living your best dream. Everything you touch is or will be a unicorn multi-billion startups, at your door VCs waving cloud providers coupon!

When the bubble explodes, if the startup didn’t keep up with its status you will find yourself moved to cost saving, cloud optimization until your last day. Even worst wasting time instead of developing product jumping in between cloud providers to do free credits driven development.

Another interesting bubble is the indie hackers. They are super productive, they work on their own, they do exists selling their product to their friends for bubble tea and candies. Using platforms developed by indie hackers as well. I love them until they start selling their guidelines like the correct one when in reality you can deploy via FTP without git as we all did a few years back. Relaying on customers for QA testing as long as you do not develop critical infrastructure were failures costs money or life or for as long as your team is made of yourself, because collaboration makes many things complicated.

Then we have the self-hosting crew. They live in basements, their life shines the only issue they need to care about is job retentions and hire because their technology is so old school that not many are trilled to jump onboard. But they do not need SaaS, cloud providers or Kubernetes. Their software boots preaching them for all the hard work they do continuously to keep it up and running until they realize that there is no product at all everything they developed is an unreadable and pretty long Makefile.

What about grumpy and serious entrepreneur who escaped from all of those bubbles and many more to enter the paradise of: “I just take the right decision depending on the business no matter what”. They think there is a right decision! So funny!

Now what?

I have been into all of those bubbles and many more! Inside you get something to care about, people to collaborate with, friends, job and learning opportunities. Opponents sometime when two bubbles happen to be too close to each other but do not take that too serious! At the end is just code!

We need to be part of something bigger than ourselves and to collaborate. This is awesome, I am nothing on my own.