> The same software foundation (open source software, development tools like Github, infrastructure as a service provided by the likes of Digital Ocean, and mor

> The same software foundation (open source software, development tools like Github, infrastructure as a service provided by the likes of Digital Ocean, and more) that allowed Whatsapp and Imgur to scale, means that experience and skill writing software become less important. The author focuses a lot on ease of scaling, but the bigger challenge has always been building applications (experiences) that need scale. If you build it, they will not come.