There are two important concepts here - 'Abstraction' and 'Undifferentiated Heavy Lifting' A whole group of software development functions - hosting, payment

There are two important concepts here - 'Abstraction' and 'Undifferentiated Heavy Lifting' A whole group of software development functions - hosting, payments, storage, analytics, communication are being abstracted by modern services such as AWS, Twilio, Stripe, and Segment. A software developer can now focus on the core value of the product. Werner Vogels, the CTO of AWS, coined 'Undifferentiated Heavy Lifting'. He suggests that businesses should use resources on-demand and pay for what they use, leveraging each other competency. Shared some slides on my Tweet here - https://twitter.com/ankitpansari_/status/1314915795433000960 https://twitter.com/ankitpansari_/status/1314915795433000960