The future of DevOps and closing remarks
Viktor Farcic: I'm going to ask you a question now that I hate being asked, so you're allowed not to answer. Where do you see the future, let's say a year from now?
Sean Hull: I see more fragmentation happening across the technology landscape, and I think that that is ultimately making things more fragile because, for example, with microservices, companies don't think twice about having Ruby, Python, Node.js, and Java. They have 10 different stacks, so when you hire new people, either you have to ask them to learn all those stacks or you have to hire people with each of those individual areas of expertise. The same is true with all these different clouds with their own sets of features: there's a fragmentation happening.
Let's look at the iPhone as an example. Think about how complex application testing is for Android versus the iPhone. I mean, you have hundreds of different smartphones that run Android, all with...