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1. Serverless will NOT take off as people expect.
2. We will see more #Kubernetes failure stores but this will be VERY healthy for increased adoption
3. A lot more stateful/data-drive cloud-native application growth
4. A lot more use of multiple clouds together

big data aka closer’cloudera etc continue to die. Put it in the cloud

This is the year tech becomes significantly more transparent allowing users to focus on the work, not the tools.

@simoncrosby Agree! Big data in the cloud.

Underhyped prediction: application anarchy and simplicity #eWEEKChat via @CurtisPeterson https://www.crowdchat.net/s/25ww9

streaming data analytics and learning start to fly

@HowardMCohen agree totally. 2020 is the year IT focuses on who they are serving rather than their backlog.

Too much of global infrastructure,relies on aging technology vulnerable to exploitation. RSA expects to see nations bolster industrial control system (ICS) monitoring and defenses, in hopes of fending off increasingly commonplace and devastating attacks!

too much data to store. Analyze and learn on the fly

the "citizen developer" trend takes off for real in 2020

Higher-speed cloud-connection solutions will become far more prevalent.

@nirajtolia especially 4

Open Source maintainers burden will continue to increase and we will see more backlash from them

the big aha: REST must die. It’s slow and expensive

1. TypeScript will eat up even more of JavaScript's market share in 2020.
2. Programmable banking for individuals
3. More sophisticated IoT actuators for home automation. In general a huge takeoff in IoT in the home. No-code programming tools for IoT at home.

to paraphrase Bruce Lee --- "the art of IT without IT" ... people in LOB will make great strides in building, deploying and managing their own applications

@RingCentral Couldn't agree more - we're seeing many organizations rationalize the apps they use, there is far too much cost, and potential risk to let this continue unchecked.

With global events (i.e. Summer Olympics) delivering experiences through a blend of infrastructure and
connected systems, cybersecurity will move beyond data to encompass more and more of our physical well-being or “cyber safety.”

@nirajtolia yep. A new problem

@simoncrosby what do u think takes its place?

@pravse Does anybody find a way to keep costs under control when the LoBs each start going off in their own directions?

ASG Prediction #1. Collaborative #content tools will provide new ways to comply #privacy, #records and #governance relating to content. #eWEEKchat

@nirajtolia Why do you think serverless is stalling?

Data governance will become an increasingly talked about problem amongst IT leaders. The "democratization" of IT is causing incredible data governance and security problems.

Wild Card Prediction: #QuantumComputing #eWEEKChat via @CurtisPeterson https://www.crowdchat.net/s/05wxp

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@HowardMCohen yes actually. Among the best organizations adopting citizen dev platforms, we're seeing a lot of investment in governance. It's actually a lot easier with no-code platforms than it is with traditional code apps.

I think these IT predictions fail to account for legacy skills. IT is stuck

The much hyped world of #RPA will be uncovered as a #fakenews. Screen scraping and scripting is not intelligent or scalable.

Customer stories around complexity, code maintenance pain two weeks in, hype around it being the next big thing (vs. an important part of a dev's toolbelt), lack of a standard, insufficiently large ecosystem.

@ASGTec 2. Shift away from monolithic, purpose-built #applications to new, nimble applications that serve a specific function and can be built on top of existing #services. #eWEEKchat

You mean COBOL folks still have a life to lead?

@simoncrosby The question is who provides the bridge for folks with "legacy" skills. I think VMware is actually making moves in the right direction there.

@ASGTec 3. Shift toward #business users making #ITdecisions, rather than #IT leaders. #eWEEKchat

@ASGTec 4. #Digital process #automation will emerge as a new category, forcing organizations to embrace agility and automation. #eWEEKchat

@gssor Democratization of IT is a trend that isn't going away and is benefiting business productivity. So rather than "problems", I think of it as bringing needs.

@ASGTec totally agree w #2,, #3 and #4

@ASGTec 5. #Data will hit the balance sheet as an #asset, changing the way organizations think about it for good. #eWEEKchat

Niraj I’m not sure I agree on serverless

@ASGTec Definitely a trend, but is there worry from IT staff about too much control in LOB employees' hands?

but serverless becomes stateful

@simoncrosby Tell me more. Very happy to be proven wrong as I think this can be beneficial to developers. I just don't think it is there yet (2020).

@gssor Yes - and #trust and #value will be increasingly important to #governance and governance issues #eWEEKchat

on quantum: wait 10 years

@simoncrosby Would love to see #serverless become #stateful. EKS of Fargate was really interesting but no stateful just yet. That said, I can see a success path down that route.

Accountability for cyber risk will move up the org chart, with forward thinking businesses appointing board members with experience in risk management and information security.

worry, yes, but the tide appears to have turned on this. When even Gartner promotes it at keynotes, it's looking like citizen dev is becoming mainstream and IT has to figure out how to enable it in a sensible way

@simoncrosby REST must die? Bold statement! That's like saying the Internet must die ;)

@simoncrosby What takes the place of REST? Something gRPC based? Something else?

on of the anti-trends I'm predicting is that RPA falls out of fashion.

Whaaaaaa?

#RPA is just marketing.

odd that we're into the last few minutes of the chat and nobody has brought up AI/ML. Isn't it a given that ML will have a huge impact on IT in 2020?

@pravse Yes, seeing RPA backlash too but haven't followed it too closely. Can you tell me more why you feel so?

@gssor not really. I've spent some time learning about it. It is basically a way to spin up "APIs" on legacy systems that only have UI. It used to be that humans provided that interface, now RPA systems do.

@nirajtolia @pravse As I stated above, RPA is just screen scraping with a scripting language. No bots. No intelligence. It's fake.

@nirajtolia to me, RPA feels like a stop-gap solution to squeeze further life out of antiquated systems. So it isn't strategic, it feels completely tactical. Valuable no doubt.

@gssor Agree from a technology point of view, but I see a lot of tech people (myself included initially) diss RPA for this reason. Until I realized it was solving a real customer problem that there isn't another immediate solution for.

@pravse Exactly - allowing people to leverage old ERP etc for longer.

I'd predict RPA is going to merge with business process automation.