To Code or to Nocode?

Re:To Code or to Nocode? by kingkongjaffa on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @04:25AM (#31245981)

I recently helped build a powerapps app from Microsoft and there are lots of foot guns and just janky things.

Lots of vendor lock-in and paying extra for things like access to a proper database etc.

For the price of the license fees for a few 100’s of users you could pay a dev to build something better bespoke.

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Re:To Code or to Nocode? by dijit on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @05:11AM (#31246242)

I will be crucified for saying this: but this is how I (as a sysadmin/DevOps/SRE) feel about the cloud.

Lots of vendor lock-in, lots of overpaying for simple things.

Why is this any different than that?

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Re:To Code or to Nocode? by munchler on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @09:30AM (#31248055)

Because hardware is a commodity in a way that software most definitely is not.

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Re:To Code or to Nocode? by dijit on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @11:46AM (#31249724)

Cloud is much more than hardware though, it’s security APIs and object storage, networking etc; things that used to require a human to configure. Cloud offers about 80% of what physical hardware provided before, but it was enough that nearly all people moved to the cloud.

Anyway, I think you miss my point, a lot of dev work is either creative in its core (web design) or gluing APIs together.

No-code can get you a really long way in theory, how would that not be a commodity at that point?

It only needs to be 80% useful and it will be ubiquitous.

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