Lifting the layers

Google Predicts Big Year for ‘API-ification’ 

The API initiative also illustrates Google Cloud’s (NASDAQ: GOOGL) ongoing focus on nuts-and-bolts cloud tools targeting emerging frameworks like agile microservices.
In a series of predictions about how APIs will shape the IT market in the coming year, Google’s Apigee team predicted increased standardization of APIs while noting that APIs and microservices are becoming synonymous. In a blog post, they noted “a much larger number of APIs are to be found internally within enterprises as interfaces between software systems and teams.”
As APIs enter the mainstream, Google argues they will kickstart new enterprise architectures driven by microservices that structure applications as collections of loosely coupled, targeted services.

Same approach as the 'Bus' and collections of Snippets.  Everywhere we get a Moore's Layer upgrade, we make the driver layer look more like a set of extension chords, an enterprise connection system.  We always choose a physical  connector metaphor, like 'Plug and Play'. API-ification, think of that as the commons.  

The effect is to 'lift the layers' so a virtual hardware layer re-appears at the stack bottom. Made possible because the new tech allows hardware layers to be simulated.