In other words: PaaS or SaaS will become much more popular to build on, and developers will spend less time working with servers or IaaS. Industry trends continue. We need an article for this?
From a practical perspective, part of what this means is that even more seemingly-distinct services will depend on the same infrastructure. We're seeing this already, as every time AWS experiences downtime, a bunch of web services go down. It will be interesting to see what effects this has on everyday business, as outsourcing internal infrastructure (email, calendaring, file storage, etc) becomes even more popular.
From a practical perspective, part of what this means is that even more seemingly-distinct services will depend on the same infrastructure. We're seeing this already, as every time AWS experiences downtime, a bunch of web services go down. It will be interesting to see what effects this has on everyday business, as outsourcing internal infrastructure (email, calendaring, file storage, etc) becomes even more popular.