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History of Big Hype Cycles

Devops

It took us about 15 years to "do devops". (yes, it's not done but, eh, better than it was)

  • Early Days
  • Growth
    • 2013: Docker
    • 2014: k8s / Terraform
  • Maturity
    • 2018: GitHub Actions (what took them so long?)
    • 2021: HashiCorp goes public
    • ???: Platform Engineering / GitOps / ...

Cloud

17 years for Cloud

  • Early Days
    • 2006: AWS EC2 launches
    • 2008: Google App Engine
    • 2010: Microsoft Azure launches
  • Growth
    • 2013: Docker
    • 2014: AWS Lambda
    • 2016: Kubernetes goes mainstream
  • Maturity
    • 2018: GitHub Actions, cloud-native CNCF graduation wave
    • 2019: Edge computing and CDNs: Vercel / Cloudflare / Fly / Railway
    • 2022: Heroku free tier gone :(
    • 2023: AI work drive next cloud cycle, too hard to buy GPUs, rent

Big Data

Big Data - "We have to be like Facebook!"

  • Early Days
    • 2003: Google MapReduce paper published
    • 2006: Hadoop open-sourced by Yahoo
    • 2009: NoSQL movement (MongoDB, Cassandra)
  • Growth
    • 2012: Spark launches
    • 2013: Kafka for streaming
    • 2015: Someone starts talking about Data lakes
  • Maturity
    • 2017+: Everyone gives up, streaming survives or something
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