Where are the new technologies coming from?

WHERE ARE �THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES �

COMING FROM?

Dima Malenko

Gymnasia pupil

Dumplings

Bleeding edge of technology

Me working

Me working with new technologies !

React

NoSQL

Ruby on Rails

???!

Ruby on Rails

React

BootstrapMongo DB

BotsAR/VR

So, what do we do?!

Similar, yet different !

PLATFORM* UPDATES

* – defined as everything you build upon

Embrace by all means!

Technology baseline

Close the gap!

Leap forward!

Technology baseline

v. N-1of your platform

v. N of your platform

Technology baseline

Must have

WOW!!!

Kinda cool

Average Joe

Me too!

TECHNOLOGY BASELINE MOVES UP!

•  User expectations rise•  New capabilities become easier to

use with frameworks and libraries•  Platform vendors take best from

popular 3rd party libs

Technology baseline

Must have

WOW!!!

Kinda cool

Average Joe

Me too!React

AJAX

REMEMBER TIME BEFORE AJAX?2000 XmlHttpRequest first used in Outlook Web App WOW!!!2004 Gmail built with async HTTP requests WOW!!!…

2007 ASP.NET AJAX is part of standard framework Average Joe

…

2016 You don’t even think of it as technology

AJAX: DEVELOPER PERSPECTIVE

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();xhr.open('get', 'send-ajax-data.php');xhr.onreadystatechange = function () { var DONE = 4; var OK = 200; if (xhr.readyState === DONE) { if (xhr.status === OK) { alert(xhr.responseText); } else { alert('Error: ' + xhr.status); } }};xhr.send(null);

2000$.get('send-ajax-data.php’)

2006

Technology baseline

New cool tech X

Can I jump already?

Ruby on Rails

1.  Solved a problem

2.  Used by 37signals

3.  Open sourced

4.  Used by �everyone else

Bootstrap

1.  Solved a problem

2.  Used by Twitter

3.  Open sourced

4.  Used by �everyone else

React

1.  Solved a problem

2.  Used by Facebook

3.  Open sourced

4.  Used by �everyone else

DO YOU SEE A PATTERN?

All the WOWs are receivedbefore technology becomes widely available

Technology baseline

Technology frontier

Technology baseline

IdeaIdea

Idea

Tech A Tech BTechnology frontier

New technologies come from solving problems !

TECHNOLOGY BASELINE MOVES UP!

•  Adapt technology to jump ahead and to avoid need to close gaps in future

•  Leaps forward happen, when you create new tech

•  Keep up with technology baseline

Look for complex problems,not “new” technologies

QUESTIONS?

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