Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
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That said, it's a bit difficult to project which truly "future" technologies will gain meaningful traction within even as short as a five year horizon. Even if you're correct on picking the eventual winners, it's likely those winners will have non-trivially changed by the time there's a strong demand for them.
Overall, far more critical to be taught "fundamentals" and other portable skills than to be concerned about a particular implementation of those skills. When you know what underpins everything, picking up the overlays is fairly trivial.
True, they ain't future technologies.
But.... I felt it was a lot better than calling PHP and JQuery old; out dated or fallen out of popularity.
Plus everyone has to add a little bit of clickbait to their titles 😉.
But I agree with you. Nobody really knows what tech we will be using in the next few years and it's better to focus on what won't change, the fundamentals.
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You're not citing "future" technologies.
That said, it's a bit difficult to project which truly "future" technologies will gain meaningful traction within even as short as a five year horizon. Even if you're correct on picking the eventual winners, it's likely those winners will have non-trivially changed by the time there's a strong demand for them.
Overall, far more critical to be taught "fundamentals" and other portable skills than to be concerned about a particular implementation of those skills. When you know what underpins everything, picking up the overlays is fairly trivial.
True, they ain't future technologies.
But.... I felt it was a lot better than calling PHP and JQuery old; out dated or fallen out of popularity.
Plus everyone has to add a little bit of clickbait to their titles 😉.
But I agree with you. Nobody really knows what tech we will be using in the next few years and it's better to focus on what won't change, the fundamentals.