So, bitbucket is not going to self-host, they're moving to an AWS based Atlassian product.
For many companies, it makes sense to use AWS (or a product based on it). For a company like Bitbucket, that is almost like if AWS decided to stop self-hosting, and use Google or Microsoft's cloud products instead, with their "product" just a wrapper on top of that. What is the point of Bitbucket, again? It's now a wrapper around a wrapper (Atlassian) around a wrapper. Except, it doesn't work that well.
Yeah, running a datacenter is their core business. The UI around git hosting is not that important, despite what people think. (People overestimate UI in general; like medicine, government and sports, everyone has an opinion on how to make a computer UI done right, though strangely nobody can deliver.)
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So, bitbucket is not going to self-host, they're moving to an AWS based Atlassian product.
For many companies, it makes sense to use AWS (or a product based on it). For a company like Bitbucket, that is almost like if AWS decided to stop self-hosting, and use Google or Microsoft's cloud products instead, with their "product" just a wrapper on top of that. What is the point of Bitbucket, again? It's now a wrapper around a wrapper (Atlassian) around a wrapper. Except, it doesn't work that well.
Yeah, running a datacenter is their core business. The UI around git hosting is not that important, despite what people think. (People overestimate UI in general; like medicine, government and sports, everyone has an opinion on how to make a computer UI done right, though strangely nobody can deliver.)