A VC View – Cloud and Software Trends Influencing the Role of the Developers

Retailers, utilities and banks are known as providers of goods and services. Yet, many of these traditional enterprises think of themselves as software companies – their focus is shifting towards creating digital solutions for their customers. As this shift occurs, the builders of digital products and the role of software developers inherently play a more important role in the success of the company’s digital transition. As companies evolve to create digital businesses, rapid application release cycles are very common – especially for organizations being reshaped by technologies like cloud services with software-defined infrastructure and mobile apps. These companies now have to consider a new set of challenges to meet the needs of end customers. Join Vertex Venture’s Sandeep Bhadra in this virtual chat as he shares the top trends changing the role of developers’ that VCs are most excited about, including: • The reality of DevOps – constant iteration. • DevSecOps teams work on assumption that every piece of software will be vulnerable. • Move towards distributed clouds and cloud-first software development make DevOps teams more flexible.