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As developers have ascended into roles of increasing power and influence, their collective choices have fueled heavy fragmentation within the technology industry. New programming languages, frameworks, databases, VM/containers, libraries, etc., arrive seemingly by the day. While the ability to make their own decisions and choices has been enormously positive for developers, it also brings with it a cost. Developers today are confronted with choices - a huge number of them - at every level of the stack. Join us as we examine how services can help developers manage the burden of choice, and help them focus on doing what they love.
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10.20.2005
Services and the Cambrian Explosion in Tech
October 2014
The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air.
- J.R.R. Tolkein Flickr: The GameWay
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Software was just a means
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But became an end
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So these people controlled software development
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But the game was already changing
Open Source
Flickr: Sigfrid Lundberg
Cloud
Flickr: Tom Raftery
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For the first time developers didn’t need permission
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What IT Decision Makers Think is Being Used
CIO
DEVELOPERS
What Developers Want to Use
What is Actually Being Used
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More developers, more choices
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But choice is not free
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There is a real cost to this continuous widening of the base of knowledge a developer has to have to remain relevant.
Tim Bray
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My tolerance for learning curves grows smaller every day. New technologies, once exciting for the sake of newness, now seem like hassles.
Ed Finkler
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I feel the same way, and it’s one of the reasons I’ve lost almost all interest in being a web developer.
Marco Arment
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“Ok, fine. Choice is a mixed bag. But what
do I do?”
Focus
Flickr: Nicholas Serre
Build, Buy…or Service
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Learn from Netflix
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@sogrady sogrady@redmonk.com
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