# Thin Platforms – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

<https://stratechery.com/2022/thin-platforms/>

- Host: [stratechery.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/stratechery.com/)
- Saved: June 2, 2022 (2022-06-02T22:59:17Z)
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## What Jamie wrote

Thompson is incredible insightful and this analysis of the Microsoft and Stripe approaches doesn't let us down. It is hard to read this and not also see the huge pendulum swing that technology has made between client-server, big centralized mainframes, and highly distributed systems. There is an underlying ebb and flow in our industry around that. The right answer? There is not one. Different solutions work better in different models. There is no one-size-fits-all.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT222: Weekly Thing #222 / Smalltalk, Friendships, Automata](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/222/), Notable

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## Elsewhere

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