Cloud providers like Amazon, Google and Microsoft are providing more and more tools that allow companies to build applications with far fewer engineers to handle the backend.<p>Does this imply a gloomy long term outlook for engineers in other companies who do platform and infrastructure development? Are there any leading indicators of this trend?
I believe it's empowering more people to build applications without in-house infrastructure support.<p>Once the applications grow big, the need for infrastructure people comes back. The difference is now these people are not touching hardware but software.