Post-Event Perspective in SiliconANGLE
Spending a marathon week in Vegas for Amazon Web Services Inc.’s annual re:Invent conference earlier this month provided a nice end cap for the tech event season, and a great chance to catch up with technology leaders and peers with a stake in developing and delivering software in a cloud-native future.
Rather than recapping an event so fully covered in SiliconANGLE and theCUBE, or getting too far down into the nitty-gritty news of more than 75 separate product or release announcements by AWS itself, here are some broader perspectives I took away about the future of cloud development from the experience and conversations I had here. (* Disclosure below.)
Educating a new generation of developers and operations teams
Now that we’ve passed a decade of AWS and cloud computing entering the development world’s awareness, you start to realize that many of the developers and operations professionals in attendance here may have earned their web and mobile development wings working entirely atop AWS as a de facto infrastructure.
This is not to say the “new generation” is all millennials or even Gen Z kids. Thousands of employees and contractors of all ages have reskinned their resumes in a more technical light, while at the same time every business has started becoming a software-defined business.
Now everyone’s doing cloud, much like everyone’s doing DevOps. That movement also started just over a decade ago…
Read the whole story on SiliconANGLE here: https://siliconangle.com/2019/12/17/analysis-drifting-back-clouds-aws-reinvent/
(* Disclosure: At the time of writing, Evolven, Netscout and New Relic are Intellyx customers. Microsoft and Chef are former Intellyx customers. None of the other persons or vendors mentioned here is an Intellyx clients. AWS covered Jason’s attendance cost for re:Invent, a standard industry practice.)
Jason English is principal analyst and chief marketing officer at Intellyx LLC, an analyst firm that advises enterprises on their digital transformation initiatives, and publishes the weekly Cortex and BrainCandy newsletters.
