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Unify and modernize your web architecture with Netlify Connect - There are a couple of things that tend to be true which you learn over many years of being in tech and being a developer. Eventually every enterprise sized company releases a product called 'Connect'. The other thing is that one-api-to-rule-them-all solutions are usually not the safest thing for the end user long term, because though it might be convenient, switching becomes very difficult, and so eventually over time the platform treats the user worse and worse because the incentive structure promotes that behaviour. I love Netlify, they have been a great platform, so maybe they will find a way to avoid this dynamic. The only way I can think that might aleviate it would be making their fancy API open source, so people aren't locked-in to their solution. But building a healthy ecosystem has it's own challenges, case in point the on-going total destruction of the Reddit multiverse situation. We don't seem to have figured out the recipe for creating successful, healthy and sustainbable communities. Seems like that might be a multi-generational endeavor. www.netlify.com #

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