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Tech Segments Facing Turbulence In 2016 (dice.com)
Nerval's Lobster writes: David Foote, an analyst who accurately predicted the tech industry's job growth in 2015, is back with some new predictions about which segments will do well in 2016 (Dice link). At the top of his list: DevOps, cloud and software architects, and cybersecurity experts. Those that won't perform well? SAP specialists, storage 'gurus,' and network managers could all face some headwinds. 'Companies are continuing to outsource infrastructure and that will reduce the need for network specialists except for network security which will remain in-house,' he says. Whether or not he's right about which parts of the tech industry will do better than others, there are also increasing signs that things could get very tight from a funding perspective for startups, as even the so-called 'unicorns' risk seeing investor money (and customers) dry up.
Bullshit and buzzword titles rise to the top. It has always been thus.
The experts in the flavor of the month technologies (i.e. the buzzwords of which have arrived at the C-Level table) are in demand, the experts in the flavor of last year technology not so.
That's really astonishing. Who would have thought? How insightful, how unexpected!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.