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5 key areas for tech leaders to watch in 2020

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It’s the single most popular programming language on O’Reilly, and it accounts for 10% of all usage. Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly. Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly. In programming, Python is preeminent.

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Quantum computing’s potential is still far off, but quantum supremacy shows we’re on the right track

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I was introduced to programming in 1972, on computers that were incredibly small by modern standards—but they were still useful. We hope you’ll join us at our upcoming events: O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference in Berlin , November 4-7, 2019. O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference in New York , February 23-26, 2020.

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The death of Agile?

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Fetishizing pair programming. If you were involved with professional programming in the 80s and 90s, you may remember how radical it was (and, in many shops, still is) to put software developers in touch with users and customers. It’s the single most popular programming language on O’Reilly, and it accounts for 10% of all usage.