Our unfiltered perspective on what is actually ready for enterprise production, what is an expensive distraction, and where the industry is inevitably heading.
Following DHH's lead with 37signals, many mid-sized SaaS companies are realizing that AWS premiums for managed services outweigh the DevOps costs of racking their own servers.
If your compute workload is predictable and highly intensive, the cloud is no longer the default answer.
We have moved past the hype phase. AI assistants are now a baseline requirement for engineering velocity, shifting the bottleneck from writing boilerplate to system architecture and code review.
Junior engineers must now index heavily on debugging and system design, as raw syntax generation is commoditized.
After billions invested in pilot programs, enterprise blockchain (like IBM TradeLens) is largely being shuttered. A centralized PostgreSQL database with strict RBAC and immutable append-only logs solves the problem faster and cheaper.
Avoid distributed ledger technology unless you operate in a truly trustless, multi-party adversarial environment.