I'm not sure if it will end up being the case, but I would like to hope that open firmware and/or hardware will become a big thing in the next decade. Open source software has been such a game changer, and it would be amazing if we could realise the same benefits in the embedded/hardware sphere.
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#22Plastics.
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#24Right now I am super excited about computer graphics, high speed consumer networking (10gbe in homes with wireless to match!), high quality home-built CNC and 3D printing machines (like the Prusa machines), and VR!
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#25Unpopular opinion, but chase old things, not new ones. The big investment in your career will be ideas that stand the test of time. Relational Databases, data structures, programming paradigms, math, etc. Even in machine learning, just knowing core statistics and regression is more important than HottestNewArchitecture :TM:. Learn the ideas underneath these ideas, and you'll really grow and be able to better evaluate…
When you say relational databases, do you mean SQL databases in particular?
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#26Security is going to be the next big thing.
I’m hoping for a small revolution in 3rd party libs and a locking down on the supply chain as a start.
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#27TinyML - running ML models on devices with severely limited power supplies
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#28I'm not sure if it will end up being the case, but I would like to hope that open firmware and/or hardware will become a big thing in the next decade. Open source software has been such a game changer, and it would be amazing if we could realise the same benefits in the embedded/hardware sphere.
Me too, I recently started using OpenWRT and I'm blown away. Also used pfSense for years.
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#29ARM will continue to make inroads in the server space as adoption picks up and as more and more projects target that architecture
Personal bias talking, but I'd expect to see modest uptick in Nix[os] interest
Kubernetes will transition from new and exciting to a mature platform. Expect less new big features and more minor improvements
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#30I'm not sure if it will end up being the case, but I would like to hope that open firmware and/or hardware will become a big thing in the next decade. Open source software has been such a game changer, and it would be amazing if we could realise the same benefits in the embedded/hardware sphere.
There is a mountain of gatekeeping at the CPU, motherboard, and firmware levels that benefits only governments and manufacturers. It will need to be routed around or tunneled through at each layer.