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Ask HN: “Freelancer” Specialties in Tech for the 2020s

1 pointsby third_Iabout 5 years ago
Which specialties in tech do you think will rise or remain in high demand in the next years?

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third_Iabout 5 years ago
(putting this in comment, I think it&#x27;s more idiomatic to HN).<p>I think we&#x27;ll see a revival of MSPs (Managed Service Providers) with a touch of custom-devops. Teams just want to work, but selecting services among a myriad offers and possibilities, then setting it all up to operate seamlessly and flawlessly is <i>very</i> valuable time and maintenance. Nowadays it&#x27;s just companies hiring MSPs, tomorrow it might be something you integrate as a transformation of your &quot;home&quot; into a dual &quot;workplace&quot;, albeit more digitally so because it&#x27;s the 21st century.<p>Ideally you just want to be able to claim compliance to &lt;some standard&gt; and hand over a public key to your employer-of-the-month to patch your system to theirs (auth etc.)<p>Welcome to the Matrix, I guess. The nice part :)<p>I think ML will keep on rolling but remain mostly a business-thing for the next decade (I don&#x27;t see how consumers would directly pay for ML, short of revolution in open-source social networks and big data but I don&#x27;t see that happening this soon in history).