Articles tagged with Cloud

We are still early with the cloud: why software development is overdue for a change

This is is in many respects a successor to a blog post I wrote last year about what I want from software infrastructure, but the ideas morphed in my head into something sort of wider.

The genesis

I encountered AWS in 2006 or 2007 and remember thinking that it’s crazy — why would anyone want to put their stuff in someone else’s data center? But only a couple of years later, I was running a bunch of stuff on top of AWS.

Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled

Here’s a theory I have about cloud vendors (AWS, Azure, GCP):

1. Cloud vendors¹ will increasingly focus on the lowest layers in the stack: basically leasing capacity in their data centers through an API.
2. Other pure-software providers will build all the stuff on top of it. Databases, running code, you name it.

We currently have cloud vendors that offer end-to-end solutions from the developer experience down to the hardware: