First, thanks for your response, it's been a good discussion. I agree that there's a great deal more technology being made publicly available and that said tec

First, thanks for your response, it's been a good discussion. I agree that there's a great deal more technology being made publicly available and that said technology is beneficial in the public eye. I don't necessarily agree that that technology is needed by most people, despite the Cambrian explosion you reference. On machine centrism, if anything, containers have increased the importance of systems concerns, because now every application ships an entire userland into deployment with its codebase. As long as containers come wrapped in their own little distribution, each code deployment now needs to be aware of its own OS-level concerns. This is anything but application centric. If you want application-centric deployment, just deploy the application! True application-centric deployments are something like CGI.