Developers Hold the Keys to Unlocking the Cloud
December 17, 2014
Grazed from Wired. Author: Megan Swanson.
In the innovation economy of the 21st century, developers are the prime movers. They are to today’s economy what railroad builders were to the 19th century and automotive engineers were to the 20th century. They are laying the digital tracks that consumers and business people will follow.
The world’s 18.5 million developers are using IT to change the world. One new e-book dubs them “The New Kingmakers.” In a sign of the growing recognition of the value of developers, President Obama recently became the first sitting president to write a line of computer code, as part of the Hour of Code Campaign during Computer Education Week…
One thing that empowers coders is the rapid spread of cloud-computing technology. Having cloud architecture available to host software applications means that developers can use a credit card to instantly obtain the IT resources they need. Ease of use means more use, and the cloud promotes both…
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