> I see it like +-decade old (in mainstream) wrapper/apis over managing VMs/Infra while being proprietary as hard as possible
Don't know if serious or not, but nevertheless let me try. It's the global and near infinite scale, the enormous amounts of managed services you get behind those APIs. You need a database/message queue/object storage whatever at whatever scale? Have at it, and pay as you go. If you can't see the interest in that, i wonder what it is that you do.
And IMHO there's nothing inherently complex about the APIs of AWS or GCP ( the only ones I've really used). They're as complex as the things they manage.
For example, I think AWS spend is likely the biggest spend in my company after the payroll/offices, so it is pretty important topic, business-wise.
And unlike JS frameworks which only matter to a subset of JS frontend developers, everyone can use cloud: JS or Java or Rust or C++ or C; frontent, backend, data science, ML, compilers, embedded.
We're still afraid of the cloud spending all of our money.
I see it like +-decade old (in mainstream) wrapper/apis over managing VMs/Infra while being proprietary as hard as possible
What's the difference between this and javascript frameworks posts? (except js frameworks being OSS)
How many years have to pass until "Cloud" stops being $hot_topic?
Were "admin" topics (heh you know those guys that were predecessors of "DevOps") 10-15 years ago hot too?