Technology Newsletter & Trends — 2021 Year End Edition

Ashley Fernandes
8 min readJan 2, 2022

Technology Newsletter

Divided into categories — Summary, Cloud, Kubernetes, Big Data, Architecture, Java, UI & Gadgets/Misc

Summary

General

  • Tweeting without hands and with an embedded Brain Chip (BCIs)!!! (details)
  • The fifth force of Nature? — Muons (details)
  • NASA flies a helicopter on mars , says log4 was not part of its code!!! (details)
  • IBM breaks the 100 Qubit barrier in quantum computing (details)
  • Protein Folding wins discovery of the year (details)
  • Time Crystals, maintaining entropy — new phase of matter!!! (details)
  • Electric cars 160% sales jump from last year (details)

IT

  • Web 3 and NFTs — internet owned by the builders and users, orchestrated with tokens!!!! (details)
  • Facebook becomes Metaverse & has a 6 hour outage — emphasizes the need for a secondary DNS!!!!(details)
  • Salesforce Makes $27.7B Slack Acquisition
  • Gartner mentions: By 2024, organizations adopting a cybersecurity mesh architecture will reduce the financial impact of security incidents by an average of 90% (details)
  • AI market will grow to a $190 billion industry by 2025
  • The revenues for the global quantum computing market are projected to surpass $2.5 billion by 2029.
  • Extended Reality (XR) Market is valued at USD 26.05 Billion in 2020 and is expected to reach USD 463.7 Billion in 2026 (details)
  • Low Code is trending (details)
  • The U.S. Department of Defence in July cancelled its potentially $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defence Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud computing contract won by Microsoft in October 2019

Cloud, Microservices & Providers (AWS etc)

Kubernetes, Meshes & Containers

Architecture

Gadgets + Misc

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Ashley Fernandes

Senior engineering lead, manager & architect, proficient in solutioning complex technical challenges and building & managing modern platform product teams.