The Four D’s of Programming’s Future: Data, Distributed, Device, Democratized

O’Reilly’s Edd Dumbill observes that with the ubiquity of powerful computers now tied into all levels our daily lives, programming is getting dangerous: today’s programmers are “like ambitious waiters stacking one teacup on top of the other”. His prescription? All programmers will have to adopt programming paradigms that have previously been the domain of specialists: distributed computing, device computing, democratized computing and data computing:(more…)