Interesting point... I wonder if all this tech being open sourced by teams in bigger firms is actually killing off smaller firms that rely on providing these services. Not sure how I feel about it: I like having free stuff but also want to support the little folks.
I'm currently in the business of doing exactly this. My 5c is that though we keep an eye out for new tech on this scene, usually the impact is very minimal in terms of customers.
There is a lot more value in a managed offering than there is just by doing it yourself. A few top points are:
- No DevOps
- Reduced cost due to scale
- Minimal engineering time spent
- Long term reliability
Usually, there are two buckets of people - those who want to do it themselves anyways so the service is not really what they want, and those who just want to make it simple to them and reduce the cost of development and ownership, especially if it's not core to their business. There is a large value to anything if it just provides convenience and nothing else.
Even with such tech being open sourced, the operational overhead of running these at scale, especially in smaller startups, would lead to managed services still being used.
