Making cloud infrastructure programmable for developers
Most developers don’t use infrastructure as code (IaC), argues AWS tech lead Chris Munns. But to those top 10% to 15% of developers who do use modern development technologies such as IaC go the spoils. Even if the audience for IaC remains relatively small, interest in Python and artificial intelligence is accelerating adoption, as Pulumi CEO Joe Duffy notes in an interview. In enterprises that see tech as a competitive advantage, developers are digging deep into infrastructure. IaC is their tool of choice to do this successfully.
The new IT normal
In the days when developers had to request resources from IT, they were largely insulated from the worlds of databases, key-value stores, message queues, networking, and other hard-core "infrastructure" concerns. Developers owned application code, enterprise architects owned application infrastructure, and IT owned servers, configuration, and scale.