If you enjoy this article or are thinking about similar things, I’d love to discuss with you, so feel free to reach me at scrowder@baincapital.com or on Twitter @samecrowder. Many subspaces within infrastructure software can effectively be modeled as increasing layers of abstraction built one on top of the other over the course of decades. Take, for example, the history of relational databases. The term was first proposed in 1970 by
You are hitting on some real pain points, especially the one about local development being more difficult.