Quite nice

It is a good idea. And may be telling the waiting list number or queue number will help. Because otherwise the buyer has to every-time visit the page. User acknowledgement through queue token or waitlisting number will help.

good point...i will be interested too

agree...regular expression is like magic to me

I spent an hour learning the basics - wildcards, whitespace, escape symbols and Character ranges are enough for them to be useful.

Article mentions "remote development" is trend now a days. Is it really so ?. ABAP has been on remote development from day one and its quite an old language.

Yes...seems to be completely a political decision rather than a technical one..also it reminded me of gitlab's decision to move out of Azure...

Vertical integration more than political. Like Samsung phones using Samsung DRAM and storage.