From venturebeat.com
We’re fast approaching a point where every company is effectively a software company, a notion proffered by some of tech’s top people such as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. This is partly why we’ve seen a slew of major investments into tools that help developers operate — last year, for example, Microsoft went all-in and snapped up code-hosting and collaboration platform GitHub in a $7.5 billion deal, while GitLab raised huge funds from big-name investors including Alphabet’s GV.