Here comes the era of cloud, though it exists for quite a long time from now. In Asia, to my understanding, was raised up since last five years. The reason might probably related to the rise of different cloud services from one of the several huge cloud providers.
New terms are overwhelming from time to time. But still, they could be easily picked up by some who are earning live by talking. People who are always getting their hands dirty, working on all the tasks and jobs which are wrapped up by these fancy terms, will seldom hook these words into their daily conversations.
Luckily, those earn living individuals, use these words pretty well even though they knew nothing details underneath. And this way of earning is pretty well. Easily be promoted. They got an army on hands, but are all in the same type. What will such kind of army will be? Something similar to honor guard or ceremonial guard team, and do not need to visit front end battle field.
Some goes worse, shifted all works to other teams via reporting to the senior management that they are lacking resources, or even incapable to accomplish certain tasks for some reasons. And, they succeed, no matter what. Living easier, enjoying their live, chilling and placing comments on those tasks which were no longer their works.
We all understood and agree the world is not fair. And we all knew the reason why we are still at the end of the food chain. We are just earning for living by maximizing our effort. We knew how to safe money for the company but we are not the one to steer the wheel. We can only be a good passenger even though we do not know where the destination will be.