HI,
So what did change in the world of IT for the past 2 decades? Well literally everything right from the keyboard and mouse (became wireless) to monitors became flatter and thinner and brighter. But today wanted to bring something more basic to discuss. You know we all keep talking about AI and Machine Learning if you back just a decade and relook the comments on posts of those articles you will see most of the industry would have commented that is still in it's inception and it will take forever and next generation will be able to harness the benefits. Guess what AI and Machine learning are here and they are defining how we are working towards achieving our daily and annual goals.
So the industry roughly had the IT boom like 2 decades ago when companies like Apple and Microsoft started making hardware and software for people like us. Now all was good people started to accept new technologies and all started to get IT Aware but somewhere mid stream people started to tame the RockStars of the IT as slaves and people with absolutely no skills and information started to drive the IT Industry and this led to the whole chaos which we live in today. And if you watch closely all the major flaws and mistakes came in picture only when the mass hiring of engineers started to happen(I am no exception to that process but I gladly accept that). Now imagine someone having absolutely no clue in Operating System having a Mechanical Degree in Engineering designing a WebPage for an online e-commerce portal. Image how buggy that system designed will be some of us will argue that they have had great mentors and great books and blogs to refer. But imagine the mistakes they did and got passed on to their subordinates and juniors like the ripple or the domino effect. We are living with those mistakes in everything in IT, you can pick anything even as basic as Nomenclature to as big as Network configuration. All is messed up and you know the biggest contribution to this chaos is from the companies who boast to Marvel in the field of IT. And you cannot even get started about how much I love the BSc and Commerce graduates coming into IT.
Well this would have never ended and we would have just cursed the hardware ( I mean you also have mechanical engineers designing MicroProcessors chips but let's just say that is really a handful and they ended up there because of their shear passion and dedication and not some mass recruitment). I mean there is no end to how much you can scale up (both horizontally and vertically) as long as you can drain some more money from the poor client who believes the IT companies know more than them about Computers. May be once in a year we should look at some of the specs of the Rovers that went across planets to gather data. I mean if you look at the hardware they had and the software written we should feel not only ashamed but guilty of how much we need to know even before we start writing the first "Hello, World!" program.
Somewhere down the line came up with a brilliant Idea of having setup Infrastructure in Cloud and this can be the start of correcting the mistakes we did in our Infrastructure and I believe it will take some time to get the morons out of the Industry who are only surviving because they can point out mistakes in someone's work or share a warm mug of coffee with someone important.
Now we have infrastructure as an Application you can built a failover over cluster with click of buttons and the amazing part is you will be getting the almost best thing possible. I know it takes away customisation out of the picture but given what we are dealing as of now that can be really helpful. So what about the software well that is changing too and we have web based workflow applications which can stitch our work together to fetch the data do the ETL and create reports. This is shaping up really fast and we cannot keep up with all the providers coming out with new tools and designs literally everyday.
We can create a service without thinking about the server core and memory. You can create the service and just change the tier when you hit a bottle neck. The only downside is the cost which I think is wise keeping your own infra which gets obsolete every 5years.
What we will witness and MARK MY WORDS WE WILL. The next decade will be the evolution of people working in IT. To begin with the Ways of Working will change. No one will be required to work from Office unless you want to. People will be working from the place they like and will have a device which they like to work on. You will see the desktops replaced by mobile tablets and meetings getting boring as the audience will change. Yes people will start working with smaller entities which reflect more of their personal nature rather than having to work monotonically in IT Giants. Kids are learning coding today to create applications so when they hit the IT industry a decade later we will have but no room for people who think just sitting around quietly having a warm mug of coffee will keep their jobs safe. Or someone who has a habit of rubbing nose into everyones work with no contribution whatsoever will have to sadly go home and find something more useful to do with their lives. People will start to speak for themselves in IT which is taken care of by just a bunch of people who take the accolades and demean the hardworking people.
You will stop saying the jargon YOU NEED TO BE A SMART WORKER. I mean literally the only people speaking these words in IT Giants are the dumbest people I have witnessed in my life.
We will always have C Perl Python Ruby Java in some form or another. You will need to know the basis of the working of a Hardware and Software before you start working on anything and Kids are learning that now and when they hit the Industry and trust me the only ones entering will be the ones who will be the RockStars only to kick some ass. They will take no BS whatsoever and will only work if they think they will have something to contribute. I mean people will need to make money to keep paying bills but now we all know earning money does not mean working for 8 hours and definitely not in something we do not like to.
Change is the only thing Permanent
Thanks,
Tushar
