The difference is that you’ve effectively created one piece of content - a big book on dev ops - that will be very interesting to a small set of people. People can visit, decide they like what they see, read a bit, bookmark, come back later and read a bit more and perhaps pay for the paywall stuff. LittleThings is creating lots of articles slightly interesting to a larger set of people that requires a constant stream of new viewers - because people appear to not come back voluntarily unless they see a new interesting article in their Facebook feed.