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Ask HN: What tech stack is in demand, and why?

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Re: Ask HN: What tech stack is in demand, and why?

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Honestly not very exciting, and possible region specific to my neck of the woods (South Australia): Office 365 and Azure.

Every non-tech company, and even some tech companies seem to be moving whatever they can into Office 365 and Azure. Some are just moving Exchange, others are moving Sharepoint, and some are just using Azure as an alternative to running a VM farm on-prem (bit boring really). But MS is marketing this HARD here and everyone seems to be buying the message.

Plenty of lower-tier 'Infrastructure Admin' type roles going all over the place, most MSP's are looking for architecture and engineering types as well in fairly high numbers (I count about 20-30 such roles on Linkedin). A lot of Dev roles also seem to be angling towards "Experience with Data Lake/App Service/Some other Azure-ey thing is preferred".

Re: Ask HN: What tech stack is in demand, and why?

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TensorFlow, Linear Algebra, Calculus and Probability are in high demand right now. They’re the building blocks for Machine Learning.

I'd question this. These things might be trending in mind share. And companies looking to hire people with these skills might have somewhat of a shortage. But I'm not sure they are actually in high demand.

It's easy to forget on HN that 90% of tech jobs are in 'dull' bread and butter languages used in enterprises, and nothing to do with the latest trends.

I think the stack overflow jobs stats linked elsewhere in this thread says it all... Java, JavaScript, Python are the most in demand languages right now. Tensorflow doesn't even show up on their list of popular tools.

Re: Ask HN: What tech stack is in demand, and why?

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post #5

TensorFlow, Linear Algebra, Calculus and Probability are in high demand right now. They’re the building blocks for Machine Learning.

I'd question this. These things might be trending in mind share. And companies looking to hire people with these skills might have somewhat of a shortage. But I'm not sure they are actually in high demand. It's easy to forget on HN that 90% of tech jobs are in 'dull' bread and butter languages used in enterprises, and nothing to do with the latest trends. I think the stack overflow jobs stats linked elsewhere in this…

SQL has been up there for the last 20 years. I doubt its going away any time soon either.

Re: Ask HN: What tech stack is in demand, and why?

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post #5

TensorFlow, Linear Algebra, Calculus and Probability are in high demand right now. They’re the building blocks for Machine Learning.

I'd question this. These things might be trending in mind share. And companies looking to hire people with these skills might have somewhat of a shortage. But I'm not sure they are actually in high demand. It's easy to forget on HN that 90% of tech jobs are in 'dull' bread and butter languages used in enterprises, and nothing to do with the latest trends. I think the stack overflow jobs stats linked elsewhere in this…

I agree, I'd say anything that solves a companies problem of "we need this fixed yesterday" is in demand - no one is really at that stage with Tensorflow (yet?)
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