Kafka Connect, Athena, and a lot more SQL than I didn't know I had yet to learn. Fun stuff.
Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?
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Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?
#172Well... I discovered Rust and Golang and I found out that I understand Rust and started to learn it. Thank you.
Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?
#173The Ada programming language. We (at my work) have been considering it for a new project and mostly everything has been a pleasant surprise. It is not a language that makes you feel “clever” or “powerful” , but everything has its purpose and place. Except for Tasks; the fact that such a bare-bones language has first-class support for concurrent execution makes it clear how ahead of its time it was. Another technology…
What field are you working in?
I’m a PhD student in signal processing for fiber optics.
Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?
#174A crapload of PowerShell to manipulate IIS, which I profoundly resent learning. PowerShell is a terrible language only redeemed by comparisons to VBScript and the windows CMD prompt. There's three different ways to do everything and it flimmers between all three inconsistently.
Also Docker, which I'm still not sure how I feel about. Docker somehow feels like an admission of failure of our industry to manage, install, and isolate dependencies, so we create pseudomachines to work around the problem. Better than VMs, I guess.
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#175Did a lot of learning in 2018.
Finally moved away from Wordpress as a back-end, which I pushed to the limit.
Learned Laravel and greatly improved my skills in vanilla PHP.
Moved from jQuery to Vue.js - it's now my default front-end framework.
Started using CLI and Git regularly.
Learned PWA, service workers, serverless, Web3, some Solidity, more MySQL, server admin, scaling.
Throughout 2018 I was coding all the time on my own, executing my personal projects. It was a great learning experience, and now I finally became a good and productive coder.
This is an achievement, because my first speciality is graphic design and I specialized in it for many years. Now I'm also a competent coder. When I combine design with code, possibilities are endless.
Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?
#176Man it was a crazy year for me: - Clojure - Typescript - Aws Lambdas - Serverless - Terraform - Cloudformation - Docker - AWS Ecs with Fargate - Kafka All this mainly because I managed to land a job at a big company that encourages knowledge sharing across teams. So much better to have a community of other engineers you can rely on.
Company name?
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#177My team started being more serious about our switching from .NET to a mix of Django, Flask and Vue.js this year, so I've been focusing on those. I personally played around with GraphQL (Apollo, Yoga and Graphene) for a while, but ultimately I didn't find a good use case for it in our setups and kind of left it at that. Our 2019 will be spent on building our AWS and Azure skills along with container setups, as we look…
Having done both Python and .NET, Im surprised to hear somebody migrate in the opposite direction. Python may have a better history as an open language for web dev, but it feels like .NET has a far brighter future.
Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?
#178I moved from Java to Scala this year and I am loving it. What started as a rather basic understanding of FP (from a Haskell course in Uni) has come along leaps and bounds. I now understand what people are talking about when they go into Monads and Applicative Functors, etc. It's brilliant. I wasn't sure on it when I started but FP is something I have really come to love.
I've also played with Go, although while I like some of it I am still not convinced.
Another thing I have started using and really like is DDD and the onion architecture pattern. Its produced some of the nicest code I have seen and has helped make the code base super maintainable, adaptable and clean. Very cool.
Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?
#179I picked up GraphQL this year. It constantly surprises me in the neat ways that it all fits together and makes delivering and fetching data easier. I'm kicking myself both for not learning it sooner and also for not having come up with it myself.
Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?
#180* AWS (Amazon Web Services)
* Python for Data Science
* Machine Learning with Python