Modern application development consists mainly of “Yak shaving” or repeated mundane but expensive tasks with under-utilized hardware and processing power. The commodization of IT and the speed of change from new and exciting to boring and ubiquitous are quickly changing the way we work and how we view our resource requirements and the cost of doing business. The acceleration of this process means that we need to examine our current thinking on how we make things happen in a faster way and more cost effectively. This presentation takes a walk into the future of commodization of IT and what lies ahead, and looks at how products like EC2, Salesforce.com, and our very own Zimki are speeding this process up.