Hello, friends. I am sharing an article published on forbes.com by Mr Tolga Tarhan,Forbes Councils Member. I am quoting an excerpt from this article and you can read further by clicking link at end of this article.
A decade ago, running virtual machines (VMs) in the cloud was state-of-the-art. It made cloud migration relatively simple: Companies could just shift the VMs they were already running on their on-premises servers to the servers of an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) vendor. Freed from the burden of physical server maintenance, companies gained flexibility and cut costs.
But today, no one is building new applications based on VMs. Instead, they're turning to two models that are more cost-effective, low-maintenance and scalable than VMs can ever hope to be: containerization and serverless computing. These two models, not VMs, represent the future of compute.
Read more here... Forbes
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So, What is your opinion.
Top comments (7)
Yeah I'd say that this is probably true.
Most companies should really care about the ABCs of their application logic and try and operate in an environment where they care less about the infrastructure.
I'd say the caveat is that nobody should be writing their software on anything that's so novel or experimental that they might need to upend it when tastes change. And nobody should be writing on anything so proprietary they can't be flexible when needs change.
In this industry, If you stop moving, you die.
Five years from now we'll be talking about why containerization was a silly concept and this next new thing is going to the go-to moving forward.
On the other hand, we've made a lot of progress with a plain old Ruby on Rails app deploying on Heroku.
We're evolving a little now, but even our evolution isn't to the latest and greatest, it's just to whatever solves our problems. There's something to be said about not getting too caught up in the hype.
I'm discussing more as an idea of the industry as a whole as opposed to specific projects :)
The abstraction layer that we concern ourselves with should absolutely continue to shift up the stack (physical > VM > container > function) as those lower layers are commoditized.
With that said, the tone of the Forbes article is a bit dramatic. Technology stacks often have a long tail. Will there be an end to IaaS? Sure. Is it near? Likely not.
Absolutely use containers and serverless where it makes sense. Sometimes though, you just need to ship some software, and good old IaaS does the trick.
love the insigt fosho serverless is the future
Yes VMWare is toast.