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Macro trends in the tech industry | Nov 2018

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• Quantum tech: MS has the Q# language. But still, the practical uses for QC are for research exercises.
• The pace of change in the software development ecosystem continues to accelerate.
• For companies to compete, continuous modernization is required.
• Containers (Docker and Kubernetes) are important from the get-go.
• Hold: new ways to be misguided.
  • ESB antipatterns for Kafka.
  • Overambitious API gateways.
  • Data-hungry packages.
• JS is quiet, things like Go, Rust, Kotlin, and Python are now in.
• The rise in microservices have made it such that a polyglot approach is much more feasible.
• Cloud: It’s there. Even bigger companies are moving their workloads to the cloud.
• Serverless: How to compose an application from Serverless components as well as containers and VMs.
• Engineering for failure.
• Continuous intelligence: all practices we’ve developed over the years to build software well continue to be applicable to all the new things.