Predictions about the future of the industry according to an IBM executive

Predictions about the future

As inevitable as the end of one year and the beginning of the other are balance sheets and predictions. Our balance of the decade (the decade ends next year despite what the media say) we have already done it. So now we are going to focus on the future.

But since there's no safer way to make a fool of yourself than to risk technology predictions, I'm not going to say my own, but rather vI hear that of people who know.

Chris ferris is the maximum technical manager in IBM's open technologies division and this is what you think is going to happen. But Ferris doesn't just anticipate the future, he believes that open source is the necessary ingredient for that future to happen.

In his words:

That (the big breakthroughs in software) wouldn't have happened in the closed source space, so it's a matter of everyone building on each other's successes and someone coming in and saying, 'Here's a better idea.'

And I add:

Working together, developers have the power to change entire industries. I can't think of anything that was developed exclusively in closed source that didn't eventually come out in open source

Predictions for the future. These are those of Ferris

Faster, lighter containers and microservices

the concepts of containers and microservices they were merely theoretical before 2010It took until 2013 for Docker to publish its first developments in the field of containers and Netflix to produce the technology that would make microservices possible.

Let's stop to explain the concepts

Containers: They are virtual machines for the execution of computer applications. Unlike traditional virtual machines, containers use the host operating system (OS) instead of providing their own.

MIcroservices: In the traditional approach to software development, everything necessary to run a program is compiled into one piece. In contrast, with the microservice approach, each of the elements of an application remains independent and combines with others to perform certain tasks.

Ferris maintains that:

In the next decade, we anticipate that open source projects like Istio, Kubernetes, and OKD will focus on making containers and microservices smaller and faster to meet cloud development needs and reduce container attack surface.

Instant serverless workloads

Another pause to clarify another concept

Serverless, for my taste very badly translated as "serverless computing" is a modality offered by cloud computing service providers in which they are in charge of managing the servers making sure that they are automatically adapted to the user's needs .

Relating this point to the previous one, Ferris said that:

We can expect to see the containers get smaller, faster. There is the potential to have an environment that can run containers at a very low cost, instantly, ”pushing the boundaries of serverless platforms.

Reliable artificial intelligence

Ferris argues that artificial intelligence is part of our daily lives. According to him, we interact with Siri and Alexa on a daily basis, we speak to customer service chatbots regularly, we use facial recognition to unlock our devices, and we are near the arrival of fully autonomous self-driving cars.

AI and machine learning drove these innovations and many of the advances in AI came from open source projects like TensorFlow and PyTorch,

In the next decade it will be important, in addition to making AI smarter and more accessible, make it more reliable.

According to Ferris

This will ensure that AI systems make decisions fairly, are not vulnerable to manipulation, and can be understood.

In your opinion, open source is the key to building this trust in AI. To ensure that trust is built in these systems from the beginning.

New Uses for Blockchain Tracking Capabilities

While the initial uses of the blockchain they were limited to crypto, the open source commitment around projects like Hyperledger and Ethereum has expanded the possibilities of how this technology is used.

The IBM executive affirms that in companies

… Different approaches are being explored not only to improve privacy, but also to build a collection of nodes necessary to achieve confirmation of a transaction with confidence. And almost all jobs involve the use of open source.

Do you dare to make any predictions for the future? Will 2020 be the year of Linux on the desktop? Will Microsoft take over Linux? Will Shuttleworth change his mind again and the official Ubuntu desktop will now be KDE? What number will appear in the fat of kings? The comment form is at your disposal.


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  1.   Facu / KDE said

    Excellent article, to continue with open source! I predict for this new decade:
    * Greater cybor integration (understood to improve technology to the human body)
    * Total eradication of certain diseases
    * Revolution of the Internet of things with the massification of 5G +

    1.    Diego German Gonzalez said

      I hope all that happens.
      Thanks for your comment

  2.   Hsequest said

    Hehe, yes, for all that to happen I think we will have to wait another year. Anyway, good article

    1.    Diego German Gonzalez said

      Thanks for your comment