The three largest cloud providers, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, are told separately. (More on them in
The Domain's two Industry Verticals follow a piece of software from the ground up, the cloud and operating system it runs on in Cloud providers and OS makers, and the tools that build, ship and watch it in Devtools companies. Every company named in this Domain has posted software engineering jobs in India.
Cloud providers and OS makers are the ground an app stands on. Its companies rent out servers and hosting below the giant clouds, and make the enterprise Linux, virtualisation and Kubernetes platforms that servers run, like DigitalOcean, GoDaddy, Red Hat, Canonical and Nutanix, and the whole picture is on
Devtools companies make the workbench where the app is built. Their products carry a code change from the ticket and the repository through testing and into production, where it is monitored, like Atlassian, GitLab, BrowserStack, New Relic and CodeRabbit, and more is on
The two Industry Verticals meet at the moment code goes live. The pipelines that devtools companies sell deploy code onto the clouds and Kubernetes platforms that the cloud providers and OS makers build, and the monitoring platforms then watch it running there. Kubernetes and Go run through both, and in both the cloud and DevOps engineer is hired far more often than at most product companies, because here the platform is the product rather than the background. The giant clouds sit across the whole Domain too, selling pipelines, monitoring and coding assistants beside the computing itself, as Microsoft does with GitHub.
The borders with security are just as thin. Akamai Technologies and Cloudflare began by speeding up and protecting websites, and both now rent out computing at the edge of the network, so they belong as much to this Domain as to Cybersecurity. In the other direction, security has moved into the developer's pipeline. GitLab and JFrog scan code and its open-source parts at every step, scanners like Black Duck and Checkmarx run as steps in that pipeline, and Sumo Logic sells a security version of its monitoring platform. At the bottom of the stack, Broadcom's purchase of VMware has pushed many companies to look for another hypervisor for the first time in twenty years, and Nutanix, Red Hat and Canonical are the alternatives they turn to.
AI is now arriving at both ends of a code change. At the start, AI coding tools like CodeRabbit and Emergent review the change or write it outright. At the end, platforms like HEAL Software and DrDroid try to predict an incident or investigate an alert before an engineer is woken up. Between them, GenAI engineers are building assistants and agents into the trackers, pipelines and cloud platforms themselves.