The document discusses how the software development field is changing, moving away from traditional employment models towards more freelance and remote work. It notes trends like fewer developers working in offices, more open source contributions, and individuals building personal brands and communities online through blogging, open sourcing their work, and public speaking. The future described emphasizes independence, investing in one's own resume and skills rather than relying on a single employer, and making a career out of community-building, advocacy, and evangelism rather than just writing code.

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Yegor Bugayenko
How Bright Is
Our Future?
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1.2K
14.3K
120K LoC
4K commits
100 devs

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2000 2017 2034
100+ devs
Big office
Outsourcing
100+ devs
No office
Product

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Labor was cheap.
Not anymore.
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%
t
RAM
Labor
$80K/year
$250K
$1K per Gb
$5
Java, PHP, MySQL
2000 2017

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We have to write for:
Computers
2000
People
2017

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vs.Hackers
2000
Designers
2017

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Hackers
Code for hackers.
Standards are boring.
Unit tests are for juniors.
Fire-fighting is fun.
Talk, don’t doc.
Don’t touch my code!

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Designers
Code for newbies.
Standards and rules are fun.
Unit tests are for pros.
Fire-fighting is annoying.
Doc, don’t talk.
Refactor my code!

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Execute Maintainvs.
2000 2017

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Be a designer
My plan

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We were coding.
Now we reuse.
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“Linear and quadratic growth is the
dominant growth pattern of open source
software projects” — Amit Deshpande and Dirk Riehle
SAP Research, SAP Labs LLC, 2007
https://goo.gl/xTKlL2

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https://octoverse.github.com/
8K+ contributors
at docker/docker
20M active repos
11M users80M pull requests
since 2010

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— Klint Finley, Wired, November 2016
https://goo.gl/TdyUtX
“Some of the biggest companies in the world
are not only using open source software, but
open sourcing their own code as well.”

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“Either you contribute or not,
you are an open source contributor.”
— me

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Your
Code
Our
Code
Your Service

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— Matt Asay, TechRepublic, July 2016
https://goo.gl/bN857E
“Red Hat keeps minting money by making
others' innovations easier to use for
mainstream enterprises.”

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Our
Code
Your Service
Your
Code

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My plan
Create my own projects
Grow followers
Watch them
Open my code

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We had cubicles.
Now we live in Bali.
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Thanks to the Internet.

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We don’t hire a programmer in Riga.
We hire a programmer.

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The rules of the market are changing:
Rate
References
Education
Personality
Language
Skills
Legal status

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Interim platforms:

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No salaries.
No offices.
No meetings.
No managers.
The future:

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The era of freelancers is coming.

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Maybe even no companies,
just projects?

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My plan
Invest into the resume
Study management
Be independent

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We were selling.
Now we evangelize.
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Tech Career
Software Architect
Senior Developer
Developer
Junior Developer
Tester
Technology Evangelist/Advocate

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Your community is your value.

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Possible “giveaways”:
Blog
Product
StackOverflow
Lessons
Webinars
Books
Pull requests
Workshops

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The market is the judge.
Not the employer!

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Give away more than I take back.
My plan
Build communities.
Speak at conferences.

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Invest into your resume.
Summary
Be a designer, not a hacker.
Contribute to open source.
Grow your community.

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