Y4IT - Technology Trends And The Skills You Should Learn
- 1. Technology Trends and the skills you should learn for your career or technopreneurship
- 2. Who am I? CEO & Co-Founder Orange & Bronze Software Labs Technology Director Philippine Software Industry Association Industry Representative CHED Technical Committee for Computer Science Co-Founder Association of Filipino Java Developers (PinoyJUG) Member Muay Thai Association of the Philippines Wrestling Association of the Philippines
- 3. What is the PSIA? Industry association representing Philippine software industry Consists of 140 member companies generating close to $1 billion/yr in revenue Activities Overseas marketing Capability development Especially in Industry-Academe Linkage Government relations Information & Research
- 4. Target Audience Primary: Aspiring Programmers Secondary: Other Aspiring IT Professionals Business Analysts Systems Administrators Project Managers Applications Specialists Marketing / Sales Others
- 5. It's a great time to be a developer
- 6. What could they have done with the technology you have today?
- 7. Cloud Computing Computing as a utility - not installed Types - SaaS - IaaS - PaaS
- 8. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Fully-functioning applications - Examples: Gmail, Google Docs, Netsuite, Salesforce, Facebook, YouTube They expose Web Services or “Open APIs” - Third-party developers can build applications that interface with these.
- 9. Skill: Web Services Program-to-program communication over the internet - Function calls on remote machines using HTTP - Programs can be of different technologies Examples: Facebook games/applications, workflows on top of Google Apps, extensions to Netsuite & Salesforce Types - REST - SOAP
- 10. Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Remote infrastructure - servers, storage, support, virtualization... - fast scaling / auto-scaling - examples: Amazon Web Services, Rackspace
- 11. Skill: Linux Command Line Administration Remote administration is more efficient on command line - Administering through Remote Desktop is a pain
- 13. Setting up your own platform
- 14. Deploying on your own platform
- 15. PaaS
- 16. PaaS
- 17. Skills Platforms - Google App Engine, Cloud Foundry (VMWare), Microsoft Azure Programming Languages GAE: Java & JVM languages, Python Cloud Foundry: Java & JVM languages, Ruby, Javascript (Node.js), Azure: .Net languages
- 18. The Internet of Things
- 19. January 2010, scientists create a working transistor of only six carbon atoms
- 20. August 2010, AT&T and Verizon announce that non-human subscribers exceed human subscribers on their networks
- 21. Ever smaller and cheaper Self-configuring Embedded Connected to the internet Everywhere
- 22. Welcome to The Internet of Things
- 25. interconnected devices, complex networks, massive data
- 26. Applications
- 27. Skills Web Services Other important specializations: Embedded devices (esp. sensors) Any CoE, ECE, EEE students out there? C/C++; Linux Cloud Computing & Big Data Business Intelligence
- 28. Agile Software Development Software development philosophy that is rapidly replacing traditional processes What is it? - Depends on who you talk to Schools of thought: Scrum, Extreme Programming, Agile Unified Process, Kanban, Crystal, dX, Lean, etc
- 29. Agile Software Development Common practices and principles - focus on delivering what the customer really needs - high levels of code quality - intense collaboration and communication - minimizing waste - Test-Driven Development - short iterations (frequent delivery)
- 30. Skills Where to start? Read on “Extreme Programming” Other important topics: Test-Driven Development Domain-Driven Development Design Patterns Version Control & Continuous Integration Learn to work in teams Participate in as many projects as possible Ideally software projects, but other types of projects are good too
- 31. How about Mobile? Rapid obsolescence of mobile platforms Palm, J2ME, Symbian, Blackberry... Businesses value server-side more More investment on server-side, higher value of server-side developers Convergence of client-side development on Javascript and HTML5
- 32. Skills Develop server-side skills as well Multi-user, thread-safe, scalable, separation of concerns Consider Javascript & HTML5 over platform-specific technology Check PhoneGap
- 33. How about Games? Platform-specific / company-specific skills Difficult to transfer skills across companies Local game dev companies tend to be small and unstable Still no EA, Activision or Nintendo locally Limited outsourcing activity Because of fragmented platforms
- 34. Which operating system? Linux – most popular server OS ~70% server market share - easier remote administration, historically better stability, no viruses, better use of hardware resources, abundance of open source applications and tools... Indeed.com: Linux Administrator: $89,000 Windows Administrator: $81,000
- 35. Which programming languages should I learn? Salary survey from Indeed.com: - Java: $95,000 - C++: $95,000 - C#: $92,000 - Python: $92,000 - Ruby: $90,000 - VB: $85,000 - PHP: $81,000
- 36. On top three... Java & C# offer most flexible opportunities. Highly transferable skills Useful for both web and mobile Java -> platform independence C/C++ work tends to be proprietary Locally, most work is device drivers Not suitable for web / mobile / enterprise Entrepreneurial opportunities in embedded devices internet of things
- 37. Enterprise Development Enterprise (business) applications offer most job opportunities Server-side: Java or C# Client-side: Javascript & HTML5 Prefer to develop server-side skills but compliment with Javascript. Desktop development – don't bother
- 38. Enterprise Development - Thread-safety - Separation of concerns - Domain Driven Design - MVC and other enterprise patterns
- 39. Drag-and-Drop will make you stupid! - Learn to write maintainable, readable code - Understand the underlying principles and technology
- 40. What is
- 41. Vision To create a Filipino technology company admired by the world.
- 42. Vision Contribute to rebuilding the Filipino technology community .
- 43. Software Development & Design Clients Offshore Philippines
- 44. Training & Coaching Clients
- 45. Other Activities Start-up incubation Sponsorship of technology events and organizations Industry-Academe Linkage Conducting teacher training Advising CHED, TESDA and PSITE Scholarships (soon)
- 46. Tiger Awards 2011 Kuala Lumpur most productive investment in workforce; from staff training to social responsibility
- 47. Partners
- 48. Employment & Internship - Best developer training program in the country - Highest engineering standards - Excellent trainers and mentors - Challenging projects - Technopreneurship programs
- 49. jobs @ orangeandbronze.com ojt @ orangeandbronze.com