Dice “do You Think Like A Techie” Quiz

Puppet was the biggest mover among tech skills mentioned in job postings on Dice during the last year. This open source IT automation tool has a strong foothold with some of tech’s biggest players and Puppet Labs recently completed a $40 million round of investment funding to secure its position.

Augmented Reality is going to dramatically transform the way companies and consumers interact with each other. If you had an Augmented Reality app on your phone, you could point the device at a row of buildings and get presented with a row of floating hamburgers above every restaurant that offers them.
 
Companies are looking for new and engaging technologies to get people excited about their products. Augmented Reality can make mobile devices, images, brochures, posters, etc. come to life.

In a survey by the Boston Consulting Group, 42% of professionals polled globally cited the U.S. as their destination of choice if they were to relocate to another country for work — highest ranking of any nation. The U.S. was followed by the United Kingdom at 37%, Canada at 35%, Germany at 33% and Switzerland at 29%. However, less than 50% of U.S. tech professionals polled said they have either lived abroad or would consider doing so for work.

Cassandra is a tool of choice among Big Data Engineers. It is an open source distributed NoSQL database management system that is perfect for handling very large amounts of data across multiple data centers and the cloud. 

DevOps, Big Data and Cloud are some of the most popular buzzwords in tech today, but they are also important technological disciplines that have their own best practices and frameworks.

DevOps is a new hybrid tech role that bridges the gap between software development and operations by overseeing change management. The DevOps concept was created to improve deployment frequency, which can lead to faster time to market, lower failure rate of new releases and shortened lead time between fixes.

Of course, techies are early adopters. And 30% of tech pros (plus many of the general population) think wearable electronics will become the next big industry. 

As a project management method, Waterfall involves the process of sequential software development that has been around since 1970. It may seem old school compared to Agile project management, but Waterfall can produce better results under the right circumstances. For example, Waterfall can be an excellent model when members of the development team come and go throughout the course of a project and stakeholders can’t provide timely feedback on deliverables.

In recent years, Google Android seized market share worldwide as a mobile operating system largely due to its ability to be modified by third-party manufacturers like Samsung and Amazon.

Pied Piper is the fictitious tech startup on famed animated sitcom artist Mike Judge’s HBO comedy Silicon Valley. It takes a humorous look at the world of high tech and was nominated for 5 Emmys in its first season.

In a survey of the top 39 U.S. computer science departments, Python narrowly surpassed Java, which has been the language of choice in introductory courses over the past decade. Startups, midsize companies and giants such as Google all rely upon Python and Python Django for everything from database queries to application building.