Happy New Year from the HarperDB Team!   It’s a new year full of promise, new technology and so very much data. This year we will see maturation of technologies new and existing , and a partial departure from the cloud. Let’s peer through the shroud of time and discuss what is coming in 2018 regarding all things data. 

In the deluge of new tech terms that are constantly hitting our eyeballs “ serverless” or “ serverless compute” is one term that comes up more and more frequently. While the term serverless is a bit of a misnomer, we need servers or at least computers to run code, the concept allows a developer to write bits of code and deploy it to a framework that autoscales up and down in real-time in r esponse to requests.

I am not excited because the cost of my Netflix subscription is going to go up ten fold.  I am not excited because this is a further opportunity for my browsing history to be exploited in order to micro target me goods and services.   I am excited because I don’t see any of that happening.  I believe in the power of the tech community to innovate and adapt.