Antoine Torossian

In all the companies I've worked, the most predominant cloud host that I've built on has been AWS. Definitely not cheap, but the functionality and breadth of services they offer is unreal.

I personally use it often when developing, either when i need to write a one-off, independent function, or for finding bugs when I decide that I've been banging my head against the wall for too long. For high-level designing or infra or code, I haven't bothered asking it much. I think it's going to drastically change and optimize the way software engineers work, there's no doubt about that!

I like the idea, although I personally haven't worked on a team or product that uses multiple different cloud providers; typically, the mix I've encountered is on-prem with one of AWS/GCP/Azure. In my experience, big companies have deals worked out with a single cloud provider, and use their own in-house services for any sensitive or custom use case they have. Not sure about smaller/other...

I agree that it's definitely something worth considering! Really depends on your product. However, be weary of "falling in love" with a solution (AI) rather than a problem (a legitimately useful feature to your users).

I feel like the only answer in a couple years will be some GPT-based tool 🤓

Personally, the thing I miss most since this WFH era started is the bonding you used to get with your coworkers. If you can bring elements of those 5 minute, water-cooler conversations that really made you comfortable with everyone to your v2.0, that'd be awesome!