Whither the DBA. "This is the logical outcome of a scenario in which making a database fault-tolerant with 6 copies across three availability zones with continuous backup is now merely a product feature instead of a full time job or jobs."
@ricardojmendez if you count JS as a programming language, then yes. Else I don't really see alot of fast paced change. C is still C. C# still tries to be Java. After years python got a bit of mainstream traction. Pearl 6 released... after how long? I grant you every major player in the tech biz thinks they need their own programming language. But that is a repeated theme and will go away again
@gilgwath Languages are the least of it.
The iPhone is barely over ten years old.
It would be a couple years after it launched before most people took the mobile market seriously.
Even assuming you were active on mobile, the way apps could monetize changed quickly in about a year.
Ten years ago there was barely any AWS to speak of.
Terraform is less than 3 years old.
The entire ICO thing may burn itself out in under two years.
We are cycling faster through entire approaches.
@ricardojmendez Still don't really buy it. I wasn't around in the 60 and 70 when computers really started to take off, but I assume there were as many crazy ideas that failed. There was simply less hype and investment culture was different. Bad ideas that look good just get more traction today before they die. And there has been a shift from "let's brain this" to "lets just throw money and people at it until something interesting falls out"
@ricardojmendez I tell myself: stick to your guns, stay away from the hype and stay away from markets that are at the whim of one single tech giant. If you decide to move, pick something that has left the hype phase and is still afloat. It won't make me rich, but it won't burn me out either. 😅
@gilgwath Go through the list and you'll see that none of those are fads (jury's out only on the ICOs).
Infrastructure as code is here to stay. So is the cloud. Mobile is bigger than desktop. And mobile monetization is likely never going back to premium-first.
Yes, we're going to get crazy fads, like "let's forget the lessons of RDMS and store everything in Mongo!". Those will pass.
But we're also going to get more fundamental changes like those.
Things are getting interesting, faster.
"For those willing to expand their horizons, however, the opportunities both intellectually and compensation-wise should be substantial."
Same could be said of the entire software industry. Cycles are getting faster and faster. Don't get too comfortable.
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