The hosting platforms that survive consolidation will be the ones built around real-time customer context, not compute.
Author: Jason Nickerson
With over 20 years of experience building and shaping the web, Jason Nickerson has worked across just about every corner of the industry. Jason’s career has mirrored the internet’s evolution — from the recovery after the .com crash to the open-source movement and the rise of cloud services that power the web today.
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