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Why developers have more power than you think
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Jeff Lawson is a walking, talking example of the rise of the developer.
Today, he's the CEO of API economy darling Twilio, a cloud platform that offers API-accessible telecom services to marquee customers like Home Depot and Uber. But 20 years ago, he was another computer science student who saw the power of the Internet and wanted to try his hand at building Web applications.
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Back then, says Lawson, he did what every other young developer with a wicked Web obsession did: He downloaded a bootleg copy of the popular ColdFusion application server and started building. Five years later, when he became the founding CTO of the ticket exchange service StubHub, Lawson chose ColdFusion again because he knew it inside out.
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Why developers have more power than you think
via
Jeff Lawson is a walking, talking example of the rise of the developer.
Today, he's the CEO of API economy darling Twilio, a cloud platform that offers API-accessible telecom services to marquee customers like Home Depot and Uber. But 20 years ago, he was another computer science student who saw the power of the Internet and wanted to try his hand at building Web applications.
[ Download InfoWorld's special report: "Extending the reach of enterprise developers." | Keep up with hot topics in programming with InfoWorld's Application Development newsletter. ]
Back then, says Lawson, he did what every other young developer with a wicked Web obsession did: He downloaded a bootleg copy of the popular ColdFusion application server and started building. Five years later, when he became the founding CTO of the ticket exchange service StubHub, Lawson chose ColdFusion again because he knew it inside out.
To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here