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Discussion on: What programming sub-disciplines seem to be trending up in terms of career options?

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rhymes

I wonder if and how serverless computing will change the role of DevOps. I'm already tired of the docker and kubernetes trend :D

I agree with you with blockhain, if it was ever useful Bitcoin and its creator have not exactly demonstrated how or why. My favorite article on the subject: Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future

Projects based on the elimination of trust have failed to capture customers’ interest because trust is actually so damn valuable. A lawless and mistrustful world where self-interest is the only principle and paranoia is the only source of safety is a not a paradise but a crypto-medieval hellhole.

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Dian Fay

I think serverless (aka "someone else's server") isn't really a departure from the trend -- more cloud management, more automation, more build & deploy, less and less straightup administration. I don't see container orchestration going anywhere, I'm afraid ;)

I've seen a handful of compelling use cases for blockchain. One involved a distributed database of 3D models/CAD stuff where licensing, authorship, and versioning were all concerns. A peer-to-peer append-only ledger makes sense for something like that, but it's pretty specialized.

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Ben Halpern

Blockchain seems like an inherently specialized tool. The grand generalizations seem really steeped in a capitalist gold rush.

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rhymes

Yeah, my naive hope is that serverless would make container orchestration another "auto" layer. You (as in devops) would still need to know how to operate on that layer if needed but you wouldn't really need to write Dockerfile(s) or figure out a way to monitor containers at scale.

Regarding blockchain... I agree, they marketed it (to companies and even consumers) as the next revolution in tech WAY before they actually had something revolutionary to corroborate such statement.

And if you cry wolf too many times... :-D I am sure there are people out there tackling problems the blockchain would indeed solve, I'm not sure replacing PayPal is chief among those (except if greed is your compass because you're not actually solving the trust problem nor helping the user experience).