A quick reminder of why cloud computing really matters — the applications
November 9, 2013
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Derrick Harris.
Amazon Web Services’ second-annual re:Invent user conference kicks off on Tuesday, and the scale of the thing speaks volumes of just how pervasive cloud computing has become. I’ve been to dozens of user conferences in this city by companies such as IBM, HP, VMware, CA and Tableau, and re:Invent in its first year was seemed about as big as any of them. It wouldn’t surprise me if, in a few years, it’s one the biggest tech-company conferences anywhere.
AWS deserves a lot of credit for building a generally great computing platform, but its real success came via its ability to appeal to developers. It’s the platform that launched a thousand — nay, a million — applications and, perhaps more importantly, inspired an entirely new way of thinking about serviced-oriented architecture and composable applications. The next generation of applications will look very little like their predecessors, and it’s as much because of how they’ll be built as it is because of where they’ll be hosted…
From business software to Snapchat, applications are and increasingly will be built using services and data from all over the place; a collection of cloud services to power our cloud services, if you will. And it’s not all about virtual servers, storage and databases. In fact, my short jaunt to the Venetian for the AWS conference next week has me thinking about recent trips to cities such as San Francisco and Denver, and discussions with entrpreneurs who live to make it easier for developers to create useful applications…
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