From building applications to building the infrastructure beneath them
By Vishal Sirohi, Co-Founder and CEO, Island Computing
Indian engineers have built and operated the world’s largest distributed systems for two decades. Most of that work happened inside companies headquartered somewhere else. What is changing now is where that skill is exercised and who owns what it produces.
India built consumer-scale SaaS, payment platforms on top of the India Stack, logistics systems that clear millions of transactions a day, and product engineering organisations serving global customers. The global capability centres employ over 1.4 million people, roughly a quarter of India’s technology workforce, and engineering and research and development account for 56% of GCC revenue.
The layer beneath the application covers hypervisors and the isolation boundaries they enforce, distributed control and data planes that stay correct across data centres, identity and authorisation substrates that answer in under a millisecond, storage engines, scheduling, and the orchestration that turns racks and GPUs into...
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