Articles tagged with Infrastructure

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:

Software infrastructure 2.0: a wishlist

Software infrastructure (by which I include everything ending with *aaS, or anything remotely similar to it) is an exciting field, in particular because (despite what the neo-luddites may say) it keeps getting better every year! I love working with something that moves so quickly.