Ask HN: 90s programmers, what did you expect the future of tech to look like?

Re:Ask HN: 90s programmers, what did you expect the future o... by codingdave on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @09:14AM (#27591178)

#3 - I believe this did happen much more than people realize.

In the 90s and 00s, every company with more than 1-2000 employees would have an internal dev staff. I worked in some companies with 20 devs, some with half a dozen, but there was always a dev team in the IT group.

Today, companies do low code via SharePoint and Salesforce. The do BI with Tableau and Power BI instead of internal BI teams. Their external web presence is done with Wordpress instead of a custom site. Sprinkle in some SaaS, and the internal dev teams of corporations are way smaller than they used to be, with some companies not having any internal devs.

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Re:Ask HN: 90s programmers, what did you expect the future o... by rchaud on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @12:44PM (#27593979)

Low-code also applies to the day to day management of web content. It used to fall to the 'webmaster', who needed to know HTML/CSS, maybe multiple scripting languages, cybersecurity practices, etc.

Now you can hire content writers with experience in using CMS systems and leave the security/infrastructure part of it to developers.

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