You can’t open a technology magazine nowadays without seeing some mention of ‘innovation’. And while it’s happening everywhere, it’s most probably in the field of software development that we’re seeing the greatest rate of change. In the old days – and we’re talking only a couple of years – developers would have their local development environment sitting on their machines. Now, developers are more likely to log on to a GitHub repository and then code, and deploy, directly into the cloud.

For example, a developer will program something in, say, JavaScript, and the code is then stored in GitHub, which will connect to a service such as frontend platform Vercel, which is just one among many. After it’s been tested or staged, the code can go live, without, as one developer told me, ‘having to do any of the grunt work’. This would involve FTPing files across to a server, which is now thankfully a thing of the past.