Complete Tech Stack of Modern Digital Infrastructure -- From ASML to Your App
Description
A detailed hand-drawn vertical illustration titled 'ALL MODERN DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE' showing the complete tech stack from silicon fabrication to user-facing applications. From bottom to top: ASML (with a photo of their lithography machine), then 'C DEVELOPERS WRITING DYNAMIC ARRAYS' forming the base platform, then 'LINUX FOUNDATION' with 'DNS' branching off, then 'UNPAID OPENSOURCE DEVELOPERS' supporting 'AI,' then 'AWS' (with a rocket icon), 'Cloudflare' logo, 'WHATEVER MICROSOFT IS DOING' (represented by an Angry Bird), 'CROWDSTRIKE,' 'RUST DEVS DOING THEIR THING' (with a rocket), 'JVM/ORACLE' layer, 'LEFT-PAD' reference, 'V8' engine, Android logo, 'WASM,' and at the very top 'SOMETHING HAPPENING IN THE WEB' with a 'YOU ARE HERE' pointer. The entire structure resembles a precarious tower of technologies stacked upon each other
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Your SaaS app is just ASML's EUV lithography, billions in open source labor, and a left-pad dependency wearing a trench coat pretending to be a product
Our entire industry is a Jenga tower of abstractions, built on a single ASML machine in the Netherlands and maintained by a guy in a coffee shop who hasn't been paid since 2003. What could possibly go wrong?