DevOps 2023: The View From The Rearview Mirror
DevOps.com, Friday, December 22,2023
How can this be? Here we are, right before Christmas, and it will be a new year before we know it. Time to put 2023 in our rearview mirrors. I, for one, say, good riddance.
I'm sorry, but 2023 will not go down as a great year for me, and I think it was a tough year for many of our friends in the tech world, too. In fact, to quote Queen Elizabeth (who we lost in 2022), for me, 2023 was in many ways an annus horribilis.
I say that because 2023 saw the sometimes-savage impact of the cycles of the market up close. For the first time in a long time, many of our friends and colleagues were the victims of layoffs. In fact, according to Crunchbase, over 191,000 U.S.-based tech workers were the victims of layoffs. That doesn't include non-U.S.-based workers, which could easily drive that number to over a quarter of a million.