Map of IT: Professions and trends (2015oct)
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Ciklum Open Day, 22 October, 2015
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Map of IT: Professions and trends (2015oct)
- 1. Ciklum Open Day October 2015 The Map of IT: Professions and Trends Maxym Mykhalchuk, project manager
- 2. 02 What’s Inside • IT Professions Overview • Trends
- 3. 03 Who works in IT?
- 9. 14 IT Professions (short list) • Developers • QA (Quality Assurance aka Testers) • System Administrators and DevOps • Managers (Project, Program, Site Managers) • And many more: • Business Analysts • UI Designers • UX Designers • Technical Support • Embedded Engineers • DBAs
- 10. IT Professions (Ciklum Statistics) 15 • Developers • >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
- 11. IT Professions (guide) 15 1. Choose your path: • Developer • QA • Manager 2. Learn the basics 3. Specialize 4. Achieve greatness 5. … 6. Profit!
- 12. 16 Choosing where to specialize? Look at the Trends!
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- 15. 19 What is hype, and what will become “the next big thing”?
- 17. 21 Gartner's 2014 Hype Cycle
- 18. 22
- 19. 23 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++
- 20. 24 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++
- 21. 25 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)
- 22. 26 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/ind ex.html • http://ain.ua/2015/01/27/560805
- 23. Thank You!
Editor's Notes
- Cool Hackers?
- Maybe not so cool?
- Well, maybe a better looking one though
- Unlike the common stereotype
- When I was saying “developers” 3 times I’m not joking as they do have the biggest variety, QAs a bit less, Managers even less But anyway, to be competitive, you need to specialize – being nice overall but not deep enough is the main issue with freelancers
- C might be oldest here, but it’s still 2nd Java is on decline but still the most popular thing, partially thanks to Android Objective-C (iPhone development) got through its best time and now is on decline JavaScript (frontend) might be hyped a lot, but it did not result in increasing its popularity as a language
- Both size and growth matter. I mean, Go Lang was fastest growing (from zero) in 2009, Ruby in 2006, last year but today GoLang is #42, Ruby is #18 and on steep decline, and Transact-SQL is niche as it is for Database Developers not for general development. Python even had two peaks, but it did not really blossom On the other hand PHP was already big in 2004, Objective-C was growing 2 years in a row C was old in 2008 How to
- Everything on one slide
- When I was saying “developers” 3 times I’m not joking as they do have the biggest variety … As you can see, there’s a lot of different technologies to specialize on