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All that's old is new again. The level of abstraction just keeps getting higher.

Someday, ecosystems like AWS and Azure will be as standardized as programming languages. You'll still be writing algorithms, but instead of telling one PC what to do, you'll be telling a distributed system what to do. The old design patterns will still be relevant; the implementation will just look different.

We're already there to some extent. It's just messy and fragmented right now.




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