Cool products for Cloud?
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I am spending too much time with the same product over the last 10 years and I feel as the world is just passing me by. I want to see what other cool products out there that I should learn about. We are not talking about AWS or Azure: there are too many people who specialize the heck out of it. I am proficient in it, but I feel that I should focus on some third-party solutions that make people say:" wow, that's pretty convenient!". I would appreciate any ideas!
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Those three have approximately 2/3 of the market, and are mostly (ServiceNow at #3) the fastest growing. The top eight have 82% of the market. If you're in/find an industry or area that for whatever reasons happens to much more heavily use a company other than the top three, especially if you have expertise or strong interest in the key technologies of one of the niche players, that could be a good strategy.
But in general, avoiding the biggest and fastest-growing segment of the market -- the ones most companies are using -- may not be a great career strategy. And the big providers work with almost any data/compute/storage/AI service you can think of. A niche company may once again mean you're confined to working with a small subset of the technology the bigger providers work with.
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Honestly, Azure or AWS is what I would suggest.
Are there third party things? Sure. Are they applicable to a broad enough swathe of the landscape that it's going to help make you more employable? Nah, not usually.
Instead, I'd pick aspects of the cloud, DevOps, Analysis, Code-driven architecture, data movement, and focus there.
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Great information from ratback. I totally agree about staying within the larger segments as being a good strategy.
The chart I always come back to and track is db-engines.com. It attempts to measure the overall industry footprint of different data management platforms.
https://db-engines.com/en/ranking_trend
In my opinion there are 2 big trends over the past 10 years. First, the only real growth stories are Postgres and MongoDb. Everything else is flat, shrinking, or pretty much irrelevant. Second, the "NoSQL as a replacement for SQL" trend never happened. The y-axis scale of the db-engines chart is log based. The top 3 Oracle, MS SQL Server, and MySQL never wavered and keep tracking far, far ahead of the others
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