Abstract
This chapter shows a developers’ view of the dynamics in the Internet ecosystem. The chapter analyses what is happening in the world of developers, what they do and how the Internet is seen from the thousands of start-ups that form it. Do developers think that there is a disruption that is the same or equivalent to what the big Internet companies create in other scopes? That is the research question the chapter aims to explore. The chapter starts by illustrating the evolution of programming languages over the past decades so as to better understand the evolution of developers’ logic and the different developer profiles. It also discusses some of the possible future scenarios that might be expected, from the perspective of developers and start-ups and their role in the Internet ecosystem as a whole. The chapter concludes by discussing the potential utility and adequacy of the epigenetic (i.e. EED) approximation for studying developer-related dynamics in the previous scenarios and raises the possibility of their being studied from a quantum approach.
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Carlos Barrabés is an entrepreneur who was born in Benasque (Spain), a town in the middle of the Pyrenees in 1970. Barrabés ran a small mountain gear shop and set up the first online shop around 1994 (i.e. sale via the Internet) in Spain and one of the first in the world. See: http://www.barrabes.biz/.
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See: http://www.xatakaon.com/almacenamiento-en-la-nube/cuando-hablamos-de-la-nube-que-es-iaas-paas-saas (last access 11th October 2015).
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All you have to do is see this clip from “Silicon Valley”, a series I highly recommend. View it at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-GVd_HLlps.
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According to IDC’s 2014 Worldwide Software Developer and ICT-Skilled Worker Estimates (IDC 2013), the total number of software developers in the world is about 18.5 million. Around 11 million of those would be professional developers, and 7.5 million would be hobbyists (i.e. coders building software in their spare time for their personal entertainment, student developers, contributors to free and open-source software projects, and unfunded entrepreneurs).
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This stage would be equivalent to what Gómez Uranga et al. identify in Chapter “Introducing an Epigenetic Approach for the Study of Internet Industry Groups” in this book, where they introduce the three-stage methodological approach of the EED, as the “Analysis of the environment and identification of the genomic instructions which are transmitted over time”.
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Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform runtime environment for developing server-side web applications.
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Also known as the Benito Lopera Perrote (for Spanish readers) or the Mac Gyver (for international readers) of programming.
See: http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0169507/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_11 (last access 12th October 2015).
See: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088559/ (last access 12th October 2015).
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See: http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0064640/ (last access 12th October 2015).
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See: http://usainbolt.com/bio/ (last access 12th October 2015).
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See: http://thecommentsection.org/viewarticle.php?id=5025 (last access 12th October 2015).
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See: http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0003035/ (last access 12th October 2015).
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http://jquery.com/ (last access 12th October 2015).
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See: http://www.oreilly.com/tim/bio.html (last access 12th October 2015).
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See: http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/ (last access 12th October 2015).
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See: http://datateca.unad.edu.co/contenidos/MDL000/ContenidoTelematica/caractersticas_de_la_web_30.html (last access 12th October 2015).
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See: https://sites.google.com/site/groupccygv/wiki-del-proyecto/web-2-0/hacia-la-web-3-0-la-web-semantica (last access 12th October 2015).
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Vega, J., Zabala-Iturriagagoitia, J.M., Ruiz, J.A.C. (2016). The Digital Ecosystem: An “Inherit” Disruption for Developers?. In: Gómez-Uranga, M., Zabala-Iturriagagoitia, J., Barrutia, J. (eds) Dynamics of Big Internet Industry Groups and Future Trends. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31147-0_5
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