Technical - Year review and looking forward

Technically wise this year was amazing , in terms of the technologies i had to either deal with or learn.
If i had to do a top 3, no order implicit, i would say:

• Cisco Kubernetes Solutions - I had the opportunity to attend at WebSummit a presentation on  Cisco Container Platform and i must say it was the one that stuck with me. The way AI and Deep Learning is integrated with the whole platform really left an impression on me.  I recommend you see this video Cisco Artificial Intelligence at Cisco with Kubeflow . Deep learning will be my main learning focus in 2019.

• SteamPlay - As a Linux user, this is one of those things i always craved for: Seamless integration of Wine and Steam .At this moment in time it is still not perfect, but its future potential is huge, even outside of Linux/SteamOS. In 2019 i am hoping for Stemplay to branch out to MacOS X and to Android based machines. The possibility of running Windows applications on ARM devices is something i feel a lot of people will be looking into, in the not so distant future (hint hint Snapdragon 8cx )

•  Vulkan - If w« you have either a Nintendo Switch , a MacOS X /IOS machine , a Linux Desktop, Windows Machine, anything else, there is a chance a Vulkan Graphics API driver is available for your machine.  Having a single API to write against is something that cannot be undervalued. Saves you money, time and gives you a much greater user base.

       “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few” .


Hardware wise, i have to give it to Apple . My IPad Air is still rocking and the update to  IOS 12 just made it feel brand new.
Updated my desktop PC to a AMD Ryzen platform from an Core i5 - 3rd gen and i am happy. 😀


On the dark side, lays my Android phone Honor 8 for which OTA updates seem to have left me and gone on vacations. It is still a fully usable phone but the lack of security updates and platform updates makes me feel a bit "bah" on a 2 year phone with better specs than an Iphone Xr Compare Apple iPhone XR vs Honor 8 64GB
Have to do my research on terms of updates a bit more next time i buy a phone, or for that matter anything with Android (people talk up Xiaomi and oneplus  in this department)
My wish for 2019 is for a new contender to appear in this space (SailfishOS maybe).