Building Applications in the Cloud

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Presents a concrete decision framework: use domain-driven design to classify features as core, supporting, or generic, then apply an opportunity-cost matrix (build time, customization, maintenance, scalability, security, hard vs soft costs) to choose among custom, commercial, OSS, or SaaS. Recommends core = custom or curated OSS, supporting = commercial/managed/OSS, generic = SaaS; warns every line of code is a liability and cites examples like $10–20M/year Oracle deals and GPLv3 legal risk.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:15What are my options
3. 1:46Custom Code
4. 2:33Commercial Code
5. 3:32Open Source
6. 4:39Saas
7. 6:01Domain-Driven Design
8. 7:49Core
9. 9:32Supporting
10. 11:22Generic
11. 13:14Key Aspects of Opportunity Cost for Software
12. 14:53Opportunity Cost Matrix
13. 16:08Summary

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