These days, the Marc Andreessen “Software is Eating the World” maxim seems universally accepted — or at least, it is popular enough that if a tech person mentions it at a cocktail party, those who know nothing about software nod their head in agreement and the tech people all groan.
It’s basically understood that in our Internet-enabled world, technology equals software, even though the reality is more nuanced. And even the cloud, the grand enabler of the latest software wave, is itself being eaten alive by the software movement it has spawned, with cloud-native ecosystems such as Docker and Kubernetes devouring the value of verticalized cloud providers and offering a portable software experience across any infrastructure substrate, spanning architectures, providers, and form factors. Boy, it’s a good time to be in software!