Photo by Monica Garniga on Unsplash The insane rate of change that everyone in IT now has to get used to brings to mind a classic science fiction story from my youth. In the yarn, we meet a bunch of business people discussing a big steel contract. Turns out that it’s for a big starship that’s about to embark on an adventure in the depths of space, and the characters are debating whether to join the trip. The surprise twist is that you think the conversation takes place in America, but it turns out to actually take place on the Moon, in some far-future Lunar colony! The message of this tale (check it out here , I haven’t done it justice) is that the baseline keeps moving. In the past, being in data processing meant just speaking COBOL (and maybe a bit of Assembler) and being able to wrangle one or two of the big hardware families; IBM, ICL, or even Wang (yes—ask your parents!) Then came client/server, then relational database, and object-oriented programming, and Web services, and the cloud. And… it all got a bit complicated. Us IT folks used to have the luxury of long planning and […]
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