Host Alex Williams says he’s hard-pressed to find a better episode of The New Stack Analysts that we’ve had this year than this one, recorded at AWS re:Invent. The panel discusses APIs and containers, the inexorable progression of architecture continua, and the changeling as a metaphor for abstraction naïveté.

Alex’s guests are Al Hilwa, Program Director for IDC’s Application Development Software research, Rachel Chalmers, Principal at Ignition Partners, and Steve Willmott, CEO at 3scale.