Sunday, August 2, 2020

Hierarchy of needs for developers who use a "platform"


Matt Prince at CloudFlare has published this deeply insightful blog entry about what makes cloud platforms successful as measured by developer adoption and engagement.  Matt believes that the original purpose of his platform (speed) is not at all what caused the platform to be successful and is betting the future of his "Cloud Workers" platform on this hierarchy of needs:

Compliance is extremely important.  In my day job, we must use a platform that, interestingly, has almost no appeal to folks outside the company.

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