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Intents: The Endgame for Computing Interfaces?
It's a bigger deal than you think
You could now granularly define what services you wanted spun up, and AWS would handle the rest - divvying up compute, launching instances, managing system health in some semi-distant data center somewhere in “ us-west ”. Dockerization expedited the transition from on-prem to cloud, iOS Auto Layout gave Apple the ability to ship new devices and screen sizes with thousands of supported apps on day one. In all, it seemed like the natural end state for interface design - as a developer, you could focus on higher order business logic and all the implementation details would be handled by an optimized, up-to-date system.
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