About 20 years ago, I was at a pharmaceutical company and, to put together a web application,
- we had to buy a prod and a dev database server
- we had to buy a prod and a dev application server
- we needed Oracle as a database
- we needed a DBA, a sysadmin, and a hardware team
- we needed Tomcat / Java and Oracle development expertise
The idea of developing and running this application with a single person would have been laughable.
Today, because tools are soooo accessible, I can, and do, routinely spin up my own VM, apply Puppet, drop my MySQL and Django containers onto that VM, and pull https certificates in addition to doing the front and back end software development.
Life would be waaay simpler if I could just write server side web application code and wait around for database developers, sys admins, and front-end folks to do their thing. Imagine not having to learn a testing harness because there are actually people testing the software!
The idea of developing and running this application with a single person would have been laughable.
Today, because tools are soooo accessible, I can, and do, routinely spin up my own VM, apply Puppet, drop my MySQL and Django containers onto that VM, and pull https certificates in addition to doing the front and back end software development.
Life would be waaay simpler if I could just write server side web application code and wait around for database developers, sys admins, and front-end folks to do their thing. Imagine not having to learn a testing harness because there are actually people testing the software!