What if the New Stack Is Not a Stack at All?

The technology world is going through the most significant revolution since client-server (i.e., PC, browser, web) overtook the mainframe in the 1980s and 1990s. More significantly, computing technology has infused every aspect of our lives and businesses, as memorialized by Marc Andreessen in his well-known phrase, “software is eating the world.”

Putting aside the impact of technology in every industry, IT is an enormous industry, with over $3.5 trillion per year in annual IT spending at stake, according to Gartner. This makes computing the fourth largest “GDP economy” in the world, right after Japan.

Large markets need frameworks to make them understandable, more digestible. Computing has its own hierarchical framework, called the “stack,” where infrastructure provides the foundation and various layers of software and applications are on top.

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