Lineage
From VMware to AI: 25 Years of Operational Frameworks
Three platform shifts, same problem each time: how do you actually run this in production? This long-form essay walks the lineage from VMware in the 2000s, to AWS in the late 2010s, to GenAI now — what each shift had in common with the others, and what the third one needs that the previous two didn't.
What's inside
- ~20-page essay PDF
- The three-shifts model laid out in detail
- Concrete operational anchors from each shift
- The argument for why GenAI is the third in the sequence and what that implies for the practice you're building
Who it's for
Anyone deciding whether GenAI counts as a real platform shift and what the operational implications are. Forwardable to the CTO.
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