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22 April

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From one piece Designing Data-intensive Applications with Martin Kleppmann 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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The reason a software-as-a-service business can charge a subscription is that it holds a gun to the customer's head over their own data.

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software as a service businesses, for example the whole reason why they can charge a subscription is because they are able to essentially hold a gun to the customer's head and say, "Pay us at your subscription, otherwise we will delete all your data."

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How much fault tolerance to buy is a business decision, not an engineering one; the engineer's job is to inform it and then step back.

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And so, the goal of this chapter is really just to give people the information in order to make an educated decision. But I don't want to make that decision for people. That's for businesses themselves to decide.

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An engineer writing business logic loses nothing by not understanding the layer underneath, exactly as they lose nothing by not managing memory.

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You're building higher-level business logic, actually I think it's just fine for people not to care about memory management.

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23 February 2021

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