Map of IT : professions_and_trends, Maxym Mykhalchuk

Ciklum Open Day April 2015The Map of IT:

Professions and TrendsMaxym Mykhalchuk, project manager

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List of contents:

• IT Professions Overview• Trends

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Who will you see first in a typical IT office?

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?

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No, Seriously?

System Administrators / DevOps

Managers

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Physicists and poets

• Developers• Developers• Developers• Architects• QA• DevOps• Embedded Engineers• DBAs• …

• Managers• Business Analysts• UI Designers• UX Designers• Call center operators• Technical Support• …

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A bit of Ciklum Statistics

• Development• >60 programming languages• >30 operating systems• >40 databases• >100 web frameworks, >50 Java buzzwords, >10

C/C++, >10 .NET• QA • >20 frameworks for automated testing• >30 testing methods, levels, and types

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Trends

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What is hype,and what will become“the next big thing”?

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Gartner’s Hype Cycle

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Gartner's 2014 Hype Cycle

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Gartner’s Top 10 - 1/3• Computing Everywhere• Mobile: Objective-C, Swift, Java, C#.NET (if you believe in

Windows Phones)• 3D Printing• Engineers• Software will evolve a lot• C/C++

• Internet of Things• At the very hype top• Might not work out actually• Embedded C/C++

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Gartner’s Top 10 - 2/3• Analytics• Big Data is the term you might know• Everyone is doing it• Not everyone understands what they are doing• Java

• Context-Rich• For example, Apple Siri• C/C++

• Smart machines• Embedded software development is not boring anymore• C/C++

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Gartner’s Top 10 - 3/3

• “Cloud Computing” • Everyday life now• DevOps = a bit Developer + System Administrator• Everything is the cloud, even your own servers• Everything is Web – either Web Services, or Web Frontend• Application determines how it scales over the

public/private cloud• Ruby, Python for DevOps• JavaScript for Web Frontend• Any language for Web Backend (including JavaScipt)

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Links for offline reading• http://www.ibaset.com/gartners-top-10-strategic-technology-

trends-2015/

• http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2819918 • http://

www.businessinsider.com/companies-not-embracing-big-data-2014-8

• http://dou.ua/lenta/articles/language-rating-jan-2015/ • http://

www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

• http://ain.ua/2015/01/27/560805

Thank You!