3 years ago

Category: Software, Microsoft, Kubernetes, Docker, github

He was making the point, in his usual over-excited way, that developers were of central importance to his company. We can chuckle today at that YouTube video of Ballmer, but actually, he was spot on: developers are critical to software innovation.

When Amazon launched its first cloud service in 2006, if you listened closely you would’ve heard a faint chant of “developers, developers, developers!”

Developers are in the driver’s seat again partly due to the complexity of this current era (we need developers to navigate the cloud).

He also cited event-driven architecture and serverless as two other trends that are helping developers in a Kubernetes world.