The Evolution of Software Development

Along with the evolution of virtualization technology, it's common for companies to use virtual machines (VMs) to manage their software products, either in the public cloud or an on-premises environment. This brings huge benefits such as automatic machine provisioning, better hardware resource utilization, resource abstraction, and more. More critically, for the first time, it employs the separation of computing, network, and storage resources to unleash the power of software development from the tediousness of hardware management. Virtualization also brings in the ability to manipulate the underlying infrastructure programmatically. So, from a system administrator and developer's perspective, they can better streamline the workflow of software maintenance and development. This is a big move in the history of software development.

However, in the past decade, the scope and life cycle of software development have changed vastly...