Hello everyone! I’m Andrey Kvapil, CEO of Ænix and developer of Cozystack, an open-source platform and framework for building cloud infrastructure. In this article, I want to share my perspective on how modern cloud patterns have transformed infrastructure approaches, the evolving role of service providers and public clouds in this landscape, and most importantly, how virtualization’s purpose has fundamentally changed in today’s infrastructure stack.
Modern applications rely on an ever-growing stack of technologies: databases, caches, queues, S3 storage, and more. This complexity increases technical and cognitive operational burden on infrastructure teams. As a result, skilled engineers command premium salaries, making infrastructure maintenance far more expensive than application development itself.
