The more I read about new cloudy "services" the more I realize the brilliance of platforms built on API First strategy! Pure Genius (20 years ago) I mean, to truly have had the insight of API wrappers around your company primitives of Software Defined Compute, Storage, IAM, Networking as your “main” Product == API First for others to then Consume!! ✨Booom 💥🔮💎 you've got the Golden Goose: Customers (GitHub.com) building wrapper scripts & services over your abstractions that surface more & more value simply by APITracing & APIEventing on top of your ether ::: software defined primitives!
All because the last 1/2 century the game has been a race to define new software Primitives & Abstractions!