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The Overlooked Operating System

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The Operating System Is a Bridge Between Hardware and Software Development

The operating system acts as a bridge between your hardware and your software. And what it allows a lot of developers to do is not have to add in a lot of repeatable things into each application. Evan Stoner: As we see the move towards public cloud providers and platforms as a service, we are allowed as software engineers to think less about the OS.

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