Looking to 2024, what developments in your area of expertise do you believe could emerge as significant topics of discussion here on HN in 2024? Are there any under-the-radar shifts that you think people are currently unaware of?
Cloud-native consolidation of tech stacks & teams. When I say "cloud-native", I am very specifically referring to the definition outlined in a recent paper [0]. Right now, there is a miasma of uncertainty when you walk into a room and say "cloud native". Most people right now think you intend to spin up a K8s cluster or something to that effect. A circus of complexity for its own sake, most likely.
A few of us are now using the bare-ass, cloud-native FaaS runners as prescribed above and seeing how this can replace 80%+ of the current tech org charts we consult for. I cannot imagine it will be a positive, happy outcome for most people in the tech industry right now. There is one very particular technology vendor who seems to have the vertical 100% mastered and the barycenter of HN discourse does not seem very fond of their tactics thus far. I think the beatings increase until morale improves on this one.
[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.01045 (Figure 1; Right-most stack)