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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