{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Bootstrapper's Paradise","title":"Virtualization Changed Everything","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":222,"description":"Back in the mid 2000s we were panicked that data centers would run out of capacity to run applications.  \nThen technology called virtualization was invented that changed everything (including the teams that managed it).\nLet's talk about how this story may help us predict how technical teams may change due to the advancement of AI in product development.\nRelated Article - https://nxtstep.io/daily/data-center-capacity-problem/\nFind Product-Market Fit Faster - https://nxtstep.io/fit/\nEpisode Transcript\n Hey folks, Sean here and today what I want to tell you about is the story of how a technology called virtual.  eliminated a entire crisis that we were expecting back in the mid two thousands. So back then I was working in data centers, and if you're unfamiliar with the concept, data centers are where all the server infrastructure lives.\nIt manages and runs the applications we use every day. So back then technology was a little bit more static and required a lot more management. Now what we were worried about was that we were running outta capacity in that we didn't have enough servers. We didn't have enough air conditioning to cool those servers.\nWe also didn't have enough space to physically put those servers. We had all these capacity constraints and we were really concerned that we weren't gonna solve this problem. Didn't seem to have a very straightforward or easy solution, so we were a little panicked there. We couldn't rack mount servers fast enough in order to keep up with the demand for infrastructure to run the applications that we needed to run for our customers.\nSo ultimately, what happened? Well, along the way, technology was invented around that timeframe, referred to as virtualization, which enabled us to go from. , the physical construct that was each server to creating this concept of a virtual server, which you may or may not be familiar with, which is basically like you can pull together the resources from the infrastructure, and then you can create...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/B0rBF_s0upJdRqXoy4_4rHlfSlZONOaHnrUmmpOi708/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kYmIx/MTMxNTExY2VjZjIz/NjEzNWFhNmI4OGZl/ZDliMy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}