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But technology is so uncertain past 6 years that successfully making half decent tech bets might mean your specialty is somewhere else. Will GCP certifications

• scarface74 7y ago
  I keep reading that tech moves so fast that your tech stack becomes out of date. But, if you avoid the front end, it’s not hard to choose the technology that’s the right place on the hype cycle. In 2008, I was looking for a job after being in at one company for nine years. I happen to keep all of my job search emails in a folder by year. Looking at the job reqs for standard enterprise development in 2008, they were looking for either Java, C# or a few were still looking for C++. Java has been in demand since 2000, C# since around 2004 they both still are. As far as databases, the big four were Sql server. Oracle, Mysql and I think Postgres (wasn’t on my radar until 2012). I’ve been going back and forth between Mysql and Sql Server for two decades. Javascript has been in demand since 2002. Definitely by 2008 when employers were asking for “AJAX frameworks”. As far as your examples, it’s not hard to guess that you should stay away from basing your career on anything built on top of Google’s infrastructure (GCP) when they are in third place behind AWS and Azure, and aren’t really making that many inroads into large corporations. As far as Metro, by the time Metro came out, it had been clear for years to avoid desktop development of any kind outside of games if you wanted a technology with broad appeal.