Change is the only constant. This applies in your professional life as well. Up-scaling yourself is a need nowadays, the reason is pretty simple, technology is evolving very quickly. I have listed top 10 trending technologies, which is expected to acquire a huge market in 2018.
So, lets make a new year resolution to master any one of the below technologies:
1. Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) makes it possible for machines to learn from experience, adjust to new inputs and perform human-like tasks. Most AI examples that you hear about today – from chess-playing computers to self-driving cars – rely heavily on deep learning and natural language processing. Using these technologies, computers can be trained to accomplish specific tasks by processing large amounts of data and recognizing patterns in the data. AI has been used to develop and advance numerous fields and industries, including finance, healthcare, education, transportation, and more.
2. Blockchain
A technology that has taken the world by storm, Blockchain is an ingenious invention that seeks to change the world. Blockchain technology discards the need of any third-party or central authority for peer-to-peer transactions.Due to the distributed networks, blockchain does not have a central point of failure and is able to tolerate malicious attacks. All the transactions made are authorized by miners and prevented from the threat of hacking.Whenever you need to build a decentralized system that stores unalterable data records, Blockchain is what you are looking for.
3. Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality
Augmented reality is the technology that takes reality and adds a new digital layer to it. It blends out the line between the real and the digital world and gives people the possibility to be more intensely and vividly involved.
Virtual reality detaches people completely from their current and real environment and puts them in a whole new ‘digital’ environment through technology. This technology, which is software-generated, recreates a certain situation or environment in such manner that one can feel like it’s their actual reality.
VR and AR will definitely become important – if not necessary – tools for many types of industries that want to take their business to the next level. More and more future-oriented enterprises are looking for new and efficient ways to innovate and make their products and services outshine the competitors. Being an early adopter of upcoming technology can surely facilitate this process.
4. Internet of Things (IoT)
Internet of Things (IoT) are basically physical devices such as vehicles, home appliances, building materials, and other items which are interconnected to collect and exchange data through the sensors, software, actuators, micro-chips, electronics etc embedded in them to ensure network connectivity (internet, Bluetooth etc).Safety can also be enhanced by the IoT, by enabling us to track security systems and potential threats automatically and remotely. It also promises huge improvements in healthcare, giving patients the power to track their symptoms and vital signs through connected wearable devices.The internet of things is a rapidly growing technology which aims connect all devices to the existing Internet infrastructure.
5. DevOps
DevOps is not a language or technology , it i s a methodology just like Agile or Waterfall. DevOps is mainly the widening of Agile’s principles to include systems and operations instead of stopping its concerns at code checkin. An amalgamation of two words, ‘development’ and ‘operations’ it aims at combining software development and software operations. It breaks the barrier between development and operation teams. The collaborative work between them leads to the benefit of combined skill. DevOps doesn't depend on the software being developed by the agile discipline.
Summary
I know I have missed some of the technologies but always choose one technology and be the master of it. Dont just jump from one technology to other and become jack of all trades master of none. Research thoroughly and learn that technology if it interest you and have future usage or benefits.