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It's a layer of abstraction. Like Uber or APIs or development frameworks like Rails. The layer of abstraction allows other people, services, companies and ideas
by kevin 11y ago
It's a layer of abstraction. Like Uber or APIs or development frameworks like Rails. The layer of abstraction allows other people, services, companies and ideas to be built on top of them.
For example, Instacart and Uber allow neighborhoods that aren't near grocery stores and transportation hubs to be more viable because they can replace the functionality of needing to have those near by.
- ealexhudson 11y agoI don't disagree with that, but it doesn't really answer the question. "Infrastructure" doesn't mean the same thing as "layer of abstraction", there's an essentialist quality to infrastructure. You could build an infrastructure _using_ self-driving cars (as an example), but they are not an infrastructure in and of themselves. There's not a huge heap of difference between Instacart and bike couriers (except they provide slightly different services), and while couriers are a very useful service they're really not infrastructure.