* Sentiment regarding Slack will continue to decline regarding performance and increased micro outages. Perhaps a niche, light weight competitor slowly picks up

* Sentiment regarding Slack will continue to decline regarding performance and increased micro outages. Perhaps a niche, light weight competitor slowly picks up steam * Kubernetes/overengineering fatigue continues. Perhaps we see some fledgling attempts at a "platform" that handles external resources (load balancers, SSL) while still having a smaller scope and complexity. Sort of like k3s but a smaller footprint aimed at running on a single VM/host. I may just be describing Dokku plus some addons * Evernote starts to slowly come back into the conversation as they continue with their wide spread refactorings (I just like their behind the scenes videos) * More business get breached. No one seems to care