RigaDevDays 2017; 15 May 2017; Riga, Latvia

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Yegor Bugayenko
How Bright Is
Our Future?
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1.2K
14.3K
120K LoC
4K commits
100 devs

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2000 2017 2034
100+ devs
Big office
Outsourcing
100+ devs
No office
Product

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Labor was cheap.
Not anymore.
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%
t
RAM
Labor
$80K/year
$250K
$1K per Gb
$5
Java, PHP, MySQL
2000 2017

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We have to write for:
Computers
2000
People
2017

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vs.Hackers
2000
Designers
2017

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Hackers
Code for hackers.
Standards are boring.
Unit tests are for juniors.
Fire-fighting is fun.
Talk, don’t doc.
Don’t touch my code!

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Designers
Code for newbies.
Standards and rules are fun.
Unit tests are for pros.
Fire-fighting is annoying.
Doc, don’t talk.
Refactor my code!

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Execute Maintainvs.
2000 2017

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Be a designer
My plan

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We were coding.
Now we reuse.
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“Linear and quadratic growth is the
dominant growth pattern of open source
software projects” — Amit Deshpande and Dirk Riehle
SAP Research, SAP Labs LLC, 2007
https://goo.gl/xTKlL2

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https://octoverse.github.com/
8K+ contributors
at docker/docker
20M active repos
11M users80M pull requests
since 2010

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— Klint Finley, Wired, November 2016
https://goo.gl/TdyUtX
“Some of the biggest companies in the world
are not only using open source software, but
open sourcing their own code as well.”

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“Either you contribute or not,
you are an open source contributor.”
— me

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Your
Code
Our
Code
Your Service

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— Matt Asay, TechRepublic, July 2016
https://goo.gl/bN857E
“Red Hat keeps minting money by making
others' innovations easier to use for
mainstream enterprises.”

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Our
Code
Your Service
Your
Code

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My plan
Create my own projects
Grow followers
Watch them
Open my code

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We had cubicles.
Now we live in Bali.
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Thanks to the Internet.

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We don’t hire a programmer in Riga.
We hire a programmer.

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The rules of the market are changing:
Rate
References
Education
Personality
Language
Skills
Legal status

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Interim platforms:

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No salaries.
No offices.
No meetings.
No managers.
The future:

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The era of freelancers is coming.

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Maybe even no companies,
just projects?

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My plan
Invest into the resume
Study management
Be independent

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We were selling.
Now we evangelize.
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Tech Career
Software Architect
Senior Developer
Developer
Junior Developer
Tester
Technology Evangelist/Advocate

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Your community is your value.

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Possible “giveaways”:
Blog
Product
StackOverflow
Lessons
Webinars
Books
Pull requests
Workshops

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The market is the judge.
Not the employer!

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Give away more than I take back.
My plan
Build communities.
Speak at conferences.

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Invest into your resume.
Summary
Be a designer, not a hacker.
Contribute to open source.
Grow your community.

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