Chapter 1. Technology Trends for 2023
This year’s report on the O’Reilly learning platform takes a detailed look at how our customers used the platform. Our goal is to find out what they’re interested in now and how that changed from 2021—and to make some predictions about what 2023 will bring.
A lot has happened in the past year. In 2021, we saw that GPT-3 could write stories and even help people write software; in 2022, ChatGPT showed that you can have conversations with an AI. Now developers are using AI to write software. Late in 2021, Mark Zuckerberg started talking about “the metaverse,” and fairly soon, everyone was talking about it. But the conversation cooled almost as quickly as it started. Back then, cryptocurrency prices were approaching a high, and NFTs were “a thing”...then they crashed.
What’s real, and what isn’t? Our data shows us what O’Reilly’s 2.8 million users are actually working on and what they’re learning day-to-day. That’s a better measure of technology trends than anything that happens among the Twitterati. The answers usually aren’t found in big impressive changes; they’re found in smaller shifts that reflect how people are turning the big ideas into real-world products. The signals are often confusing: for example, interest in content about the “big three” cloud providers is slightly down, while interest in content about cloud migration is significantly up. What does that mean? Companies are still “moving into the cloud”—that trend hasn’t changed—but ...
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