The Development Platform Landscape in 2018
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Tour of platform shifts with concrete claims: personal computing peaks in 2011 then stabilizes around 260M units while smartphones hit 1.5 billion smartphones (2016), Cray‑2’s 1.9 GFLOPS matches an iPad 2, modern GPUs and Summit reach teraflops/petaflops orders of magnitude higher, and containers reach parity on Windows (Server 2019) with Docker + Kubernetes dominance. Mobile stacks split between Xamarin, Ionic/Cordova and PWAs/WebAssembly; serverless (Azure Functions, AWS Lambda) rises; AI breakthroughs like AlphaGo → AlphaZero: self-play in weeks and deepfakes force ethics and detection work.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Start
- 11:50Today's Tools?
- 13:12Responsive Web Design
- 15:22Native
- 15:42Cross Platform Mobile
- 16:35Single Page Applications (SPA)
- 17:05Progressive Web App
- 17:56Windows Client Apps
- 19:22Windows 10 Universal Apps
- 22:28Wearables
- 22:48Internet of Things
- 24:17Back End Technology
- 26:30Data Storage
- 27:16Data Lakes
- 28:22Big Data
- 28:58Containers








