Top 4 Outdated Technologies I WOULDNT Learn in 2024

In this video we are taking a step back and looking at some of the technologies I wouldn’t learn in 2024. These are all personal preferences of course and there are still lots of areas where some of these are required! The purpose of looking into these technologies is to have a solid understanding of where some of the technologies we now use today, came from!
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Top 4 Outdated Technologies I WOULDNT Learn in 2024

[@TiffInTech]

The goal of looking into these technologies is to have a solid understanding of where some of the technologies we now use today, came from!

[@darrondavis5848]

You should write a book

[@jamesross5120]

you should do an example "how to code an app" video im in need of it so badly lol

[@TheSulross]

the last three are all obviously obsolete and have been perceived as such for years now - didn't really warrant a video

[@zandeehdz1]

3:09 Traditional manual server management 5:39 SOAP 6:56 Pearl 8:33 Adobe Flash & Microsoft Silverlight

[@YredlineY]

It's "Perl"

[@IMAN7THRYLOS]

@@YredlineY Actually it is "PERL" for Practical Extraction and Report Language. But I guess the autocorrectors don't know geek spelling. Regardless, it is a language with very powerful REGEX mechanism and apart from scripting, prooved to be very useful in compating spam. Tools like Spamassasin were built using PERL.

[@manofacertainrage856]

@@IMAN7THRYLOS No, it's not. Since I won't have you trust my memory: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl - what you wrote is one of many backronyms - although it's probably the most common.

[@homecoder7816]

do those even still exist? 😬

[@manofacertainrage856]

@@homecoder7816 All but Flash and Silverlight. It's funny she listed traditional manual server management since having that knowledge is frequently the first prerequisite of building a docker container and integrating it into Kubernetes. SOAP was entrenched in places talking to mainframes and believe it or not, those mainframes are still out there, so it probably hasn't been exterminated. Also, Perl is still being used in some places. She is right about not learning SOAP or Perl unless you have to. I'd actually advocate for knowing your environment (server management) and avoid the rest if you can. If your job supports Flash or Silverlight you should probably find another job.

[@propertyrealestate9843]

How can you understand orchestration and containerization of servers without understanding basic principles of server software? I know people who work in such manner, but they call me to fix their own PC, it's funny.

[@ahkilles]

You can drive a car without being a mechanic.

[@lennardvirajjayasekara2484]

A completely stupid comment....safe guess you are white-collar IT pro with a mentality never to get your hands dirty....you are the kind of people companies happily fires in droves@@ahkilles

[@matteofalduto766]

That’s kind of the whole point of containerization…

[@arcanernz]

I was set on creating a Flash front-end with a Cobol backend now I have to upgrade to Fortran and CGI.

[@Hosai397]

Thanks Tiff ! You’re such a gem !❤

[@karlroth7082]

We love learning. You are the hero, Tiffany.. take off is great!

[@ehsaanfayaz1671]

Nice one . Thank You

[@vipulchoksi1991]

Thanks for your great insights in the technology industry

[@supriyochatterjee4095]

In the world of IT/Computers nothing goes outdated never because everything is interconnected and must have some references linked

[@luisestebanruiz9773]

Totally agree, key is skills and solving problems, and how to approach to it.

[@JPFortuno]

I disagree for manual server management. Knowledge of routing, switching, networking, server, how to setup disks, backups are still relevant considering that many companies are moving off the cloud because of the costs of the architectures. Having containerized environments is a different topic and is required too. Knowing Docker + other tools like Portainer to manage dockerized environments is definitely something needed. As for developers learning Docker, my advice is to know first what they are doing and what was done before Docker existed. That's the best way to learn Docker.

[@HellCatLeMaudit]

Agree with this. Docker is good---if there is already an image ready to be used. Otherwise, the developer will have to create the image themselves, which means they should know how to install and configure the applications and utilities from scratch because they need that to create the Docker image properly.

[@eman0828]

Manual Sever configuration is going away but not On-Prem physical servers. What has changed is utilizing DevOps automation tools like Ansible to automate the configuration of servers instead of manually configurating them.

[@373323]

i disagree with the individual server / application configuration, you can achieve 5-20% performance increase if you know how to configure that server correctly, then you can put that into your provisioning scripts and roll it out, i think that skill remains very much in demand, tho not easily observable for many.

[@eman0828]

As a Red Hat Linux Sysadmini don't fully agree with the first one given that only a faction of organizations are 100% purely cloud. Abour 70% to 80% still have some On-Prem infrastructure that meaning a Hybrid infrastructure. Plus VMs are also still used in the cloud. What has changed is manual configuration as modern Sysadmins are already using DevOps tools such as Ansible or the SaltStack like my self. We automate the processes of configuration and management of server's.

[@Jibril_Abdulkadir]

Great vid tiff and happy new year to u 🤩

[@TechnologyofTodayandAlways]

good video, you are a great inspiration for me, congratulations, I am already your new subscriber 👍 blessings 🙏🏻

[@gordonwoo8127]

I strongly disagree with the first point as whether servers are physical or virtual, those skills are required by groups that cannot operate in a kubernet configuration for various reasons but most importantly data and program classification.

[@bmajor5424]

Right.

[@luisandraschnik3001]

Yes, there are a lot of servers running stand alone have to be manually configurated and there will be more for a long time.

[@eman0828]

Right physical server's aren't going away. It's the way of configuring and management of them has changed. We automate using DevOps tools such as Ansible to automate the configuration. Ansible can be use to for both On-Prem and Cloud services.

[@coffeezealot8535]

Have u seen Perl One-Liners? I have been recently learning those; very useful.

[@Rationalview4915]

Thanks for the video

[@TiffInTech]

You bet!! Happy holidays ❤️

[@JohnHessGA]

Love your video's. Always interesting and great format. The future is Cloud - experience developing and deploying on the many online platforms is a key skill for all developers.

[@BobbyTomMathew]

Wow. Great content. I was lacking in knowledge about containerization. It's actually something I might need.

[@zxztom]

what's that monitor you are using?

[@jeverett0902]

Does GraphQL have anywhere the transformation power as XSLT today?

[@colinmaharaj]

Wow, so the actual dept where I work is in Server mgmt and deployment. We are a hosting provider as well (a mini one) so it is not obsolete, its my job. My full time hobby is Software Dev in C/C++/ASM/PHP/SQL/Java/Javascript/BATCH/BASH/PS etc. I also write my own LAMP stack for deployment with php/MariaDB/Apache.

[@jeverett0902]

I mean, I love automation, but what will it be like with a generation of system administrators who only know imperative commands and infrastructure as code syntax - but don’t understand what’s under the hood actually being automated.

[@manindrasammanathegreat8253]

thank you!!!

[@lillyinthefield2787]

What program do you suggest to learn web dev full stack ?? in 2024???

[@karlroth7082]

focus on the good.. things that you are excited about. Things that keep you curious. Things that you are naturally driven towards. Things that make you happy. Don’t worry about the market out there… create something new and something that is needed out there that is not yet out there. That is key

[@mverma7845]

Also I would thing Fortran and Cobol would be on the list of not to learn in 2024. Also do you have any pointers for someone trying to find a job as a web developer in 2024 who is leaving a call center job?

[@VladimirMyagdeev]

Excluding "manual server management" (a little bit: who will setup docker, kubernetes? 😁) they are too outdated: Flash is outdated more than 7 years) Perl already had agony in ~2007, as I remember SOAP +/-, but, unfortunately, alive as legacy in financial/government systems and some old corporations Silverlight - don't know, but I am glad that I never used this Thx for the video! Happy New Year🎄🎄🎄

[@sebastianarellano3968]

Hi Tiff, great video, what do you think of learning Java? I believe that the market would be always strong for Java, at least for several years

[@damilola_adegunwa]

my only check for whether I should stop learning a particular framework is to see whether or not there are jobs for it and right now java is killing it (you know the "PHP is dead" joke right?!)

[@sebastianarellano3968]

@@damilola_adegunwahaha yeah you are absolutely right

[@rollthers3157]

Just make sure there's high demand for it in your region. There probably is because Java is so widely used.

[@Zeptocomp]

thx for your videos - I like em-...

[@michaelmaignan]

Hey Tiff, between pursuing a computer science degree or directly going into software engineering. I'm not a big fan of math, by the way. Any recommendations or insights on which path might be a better fit for me.

[@TonyP7007]

Much less math in a software engineering degree. Software engineering is based on more "real-world" knowledge, while computer science is based more on theory including a lot of math (think Discrete Math, sets, discrete probability, combinatorics, etc...) BTW, I have a Master's degree in Software Engineering and went to college with a number of friends who majored in Computer Science. Some of the fundamental classes were similar (like, logic design) but their curricula eventually strayed into more math & theory than mine (although we all had to take calculus and differential equations). Comp Sci likely has to take Linear Algebra and Number Theory as well -- math classes that are not required in Software Engineering. Not that we didn't learn and use basic linear algebra, sets, and probability, but not to the degree that the CompSci students had to learn it.

[@ZainKhan-sx1ex]

Very informative video how technology is evolved ❤❤❤

[@RandyW-ul9cn]

I´m bullish on VRA, Joystream and Staxum. What do you think guys about my picks?

[@user-xx6cc9ob2m]

Hi Tiff! I follow you for more than a year and you became the reason for me to become a developer advocate! I would like you to talk about your job and predictions about it's future.

[@TiffInTech]

Hi! Oh wow that made my day!! I’m so happy to hear that!! 💕

[@randyriegel8553]

Learn C# and SQL. Me and a co-worker for fun on a non-busy day had a contest. He likes Python. We did specs of the app and such then the race was on. I had my C# app running in about 2 hours... it took him all 8 hours of the day to get the Python app running halfway right. I have worked on some python stuff at work but mainly I'm the C# guy. I can write Assembly Language easier than python. Python confuses the hell out of me.

[@erx88]

Flashes power was being able to connect all types of code behind the scenes while allow for a touchscreen style graphical interface, you can create dynamic machines that run on flash in the background, it was discontinued exactly because it could not be controlled, it was extremely secure, for those that knew how to use it... Technology has been degraded over the years, not upgraded...it's become somewhat dystopian as none of the systems that promoted a true decentralized internet exist anymore or have been greatly distorted... -ER x

[@Rahul-rawat-01]

I'm CSE engineering student from India 🎉 I've been following many Indian tech youtuber but from know I'm gonna follow you also because it'll help to improve my English 😂😂

[@claudineijr7254]

I thought i could, but i barely understood a thing on this new tech stuff haha very interesting tho. I guess a whale was a great choice, as it may carry loads of data and suited for a good name imo (Docker as of Moby Dick, maybe lol) Great video and nice trasitions btw

[@pushon10]

What a unique concept

[@shaunweinberg2463]

Please do a top 5 front end frameworks to learn for 2024 :)

[@b3dsign]

My company is still using flash for games and I really don’t know how to upgrade it. Flash now is called Adobe Animate, is the same program just with a new name, and it does not uses plugin anymore, all is exported as html5 (very creep code)… but there are some drag and drop games there seems very difficult to make in pure html 5, and there are the animations that if we don’t use animate we need to use after effects to export a lottie file and import as json… too much stuff to do the same… so if anyone has a solution different from flash to do it please, share 😅

[@jmiltons]

I loved flash!

[@a2n0H]

Regarding SOAP - it is widely used in gov applications (at least in my country - Czechia). It is hell to connect apps to that, because they make changes in xml often, without documentation and so on. So at least in here it seems it wont disappear. 🤷‍♂️ But yes, all in all it is not worth it to waste time with that until you really have to.

[@the_computer_scientist]

Hi Tiff, I will add native desktop app development

[@countryclub1113]

Flash was great when it came out in the late 90s. In fact, I actually got my career started as a Junior Engineer working with Flash Actionscript. Back in the day, we were making websites with it, software and games with it... And with vector graphics and audio/video streaming, it looked and performed great compared to other web technologies of the time. When Steve Jobs announced in 2010 that Apple would not support it on its iOS hardware products, that was the beginning of the end for Flash. The last time I used Flash for work was in 2014. I was asked to make some animated Flash ad banners for the company website. Now I'm an iOS Engineer and primarily work in Swift and C#/Unity. Two great tools for building mobile apps and experiences, but I still miss Flash sometimes because it was so easy to build something that looked good quickly. R.I.P Flash 😂

[@LongHale]

My picks for next 3 months period are INJ and FIL. But also, guys do not miss Staxum presale, is almost over.

[@Zeptocomp]

can we get something about PHP/ MYSQL vs. python? what to learn and why?

[@davidjulitz7446]

Both is used in the real world and both is useful to learn.

[@DiamondStar-nf7cq]

There is one project that stands out and it is in early phases. It is Staxum. 10m already raised from institutions and now public have their opportunity

[@389293912]

Perl tries to inherit a lot of syntax from shell (sh, bash, etc), like $ indicating a variable. If you start trying to do things in a shell script that shell cannot do, the next step is Perl. However Python is more comfortable for people not evolving from shell scripts. In the early 90s there was no Python, Ruby or Javascript. Perl was the only "scripting" language there was. That's when it got its foothold.

[@TomNook.]

Lol was not expecting you to reference 1990s tech 😂

[@victotronics]

I wouldn't compare Perl to C: the basis is the bash shell language. So, yes, regex handling is great. But I agree: as a general language Python is far better. Also a big reason for its decline is the disastrous attempt to move to Perl6. If you think the Python3 controversy was a big one, that's nothing compared to Perl6.

[@jhmrem]

RIP Perl!

[@the_jr_dev]

There is no evidence you can show me to say that Python is a better scripting language. In fact, I would say that the opposite is true. The reason that Python is liked more is because it is more readable. But, line for line. It usually takes Perl 1/4 of total lines of code to do what a Python script will do.

[@victotronics]

@@the_jr_dev And it would take APL yet 1/4 of that. Doesn't mean it's a better language.

[@the_jr_dev]

@@victotronics except, no DevOps Engineer uses APL for scripting but they do use Perl. Also, from what I understand, APL would be prone to unintended consequences. Now, for purely scripting purposes, I would say Perl is better than Python, but Python has successfully morphed into several areas where it does rather well and it is quite readable. Now, my only point to this was that people don't really know much about Perl and make a bunch assertions as to why it's not popular anymore. Perl 5-6 came out and tried to be more than a scripting language. If it would have stayed primarily a scripting language; I think it would be infinitely more popular today. It doesn't matter because now we have Golang which is faster than both.

[@Topgunchannel]

My challenge in 2024. Materials informatics and bioinformatics I want to try to connect with hardware and them. I changed my mind a lot..because of my looking for job..

[@rollthers3157]

You make good videos. You should consider getting a technical editor though.

[@CharlieHustle-ix3rv]

Staxum is all over the news and portals. I think its a great investment opportunity.

[@abdelrahmansheref2833]

here is the real start 3:05

[@AndrewZhilenko]

As a former Perl developer a d a founder of a company, which still sells commercial product for telecoms with about 1M lines of Perl code - it is sad to see its decline, but this is the reality. I switched to Python for my new projects. :-) Although I disagree with the statement that Javascript had something to do with Perl losing popularity. JS is used on the front-end (in a browser), while Perl is used at the back-end. Or you meant frameworks like NodeJS?

[@DarthJarJar10]

I LOL'd when you mentioned Silverlight! Did it ever take off at all? Especially with all the well-deserved hatred for IE?

[@xybersurfer]

right? i'm suprised it was even mentioned

[@brutusjackendy3658]

What I would learn in 2024, Machine Learning !

[@JaydeepPanchal-cg8vm]

God bless you all, I hope we all get many x returns by the end of the bull run. I am betting in 100 bucks that Staxum will do 150x by the end of 2024.

[@the_jr_dev]

OK, you still don't know what Perl is or the reasons for it's downfall. It is used primarily in DevOps because it really excels as a scripting language. The reason for it's downfall was that it tried to morph into something it was never intended to be because of the emergence of Python. It's still a superior scripting language to Python and Bash. I don't blame you for not wanting to learn it because unless you are planning on becoming a DevOps Engineer; it doesn't make sense to learn it. And now, with the growing popularity of Golang in the sphere of scripting; it probably doesn't make sense even then. I hope that nugget gives you a better understanding of Perl. The other things I completely agree with you on though.

[@alberteinsteinthejew]

Jenny Curran? Where's Forrest?

[@TheTeslaTess]

4:22 I think it's obvious why it's a whale carrying the containers and not a ship. If it's an animal things are much cuter. If it would be a ship the logo might have looked like the Portainer logo looks today... I think that carries not so much identity if it's a ship

[@_sonicfive]

These are 4 very OBVIOUS technologies. Cmon flash? Is this still something people use? It was crushed by apple in 2002. There are hundreds of obsolete technologies we no longer talk about .

[@DrunkenUFOPilot]

SOAP? I thought that was so long dead, it's not even obsolete any more. Ugh, from what I saw of it 20 years ago, glad it's out.

[@DrunkenUFOPilot]

But ALGOL is still hot and worth studying, right?

[@DrunkenUFOPilot]

I mean, Univac mainframes don't run Go, Python, Typescript or Zig yet, gotta use what you can!

[@zambianyoutuberx]

okay, but what should we learn in Computer Science in 2024?

JavaScript has been in Netscape since 1995, Flash was released in 1996. You must be referring to the rise of DOM scripting, not JavaScript per se?

[@f.5528]

Nice video. I agree for Flash and everything technology related to it (deprecations and security issues). I also agree with you for Perl. Still, if you're a system administrator and you wanna make a lot of money, just learn Perl and find a banking company that still uses Perl. They'll be happy to pay you for what others don't wanna do. Don't agree for Manual deployement because you can't just learn the magic behind containers and tools like ansible without lifting the hood and understanding the basics of package management and installation (APT, DNF, YUM, repos, etc), specially if you have to fix bugs. Don't agree with SOAP at all ! SOAP is still the most secure protocol, way more than REST and GraphQL because of it's specification (encryption and WS-security with SSL). Many companies still and should use it. Also, not that hard to learn at all. Keep up the good work and thank you for the good content.

[@noam65]

The thought occurs to me, that we recently had a crisis in which nobody was still around to maintain an old code language, still in use. Don't put yourselves into that uncomfortable position.

[@sab6261]

Perl like C? No. But yes, it's been out of fashion for a long time now.

[@punkisinthedetails1470]

Mobo Dock

[@fredrikbergquist5734]

I would say don’t learn to code and SWE. The field is saturated right now, salaries are down 30% and will go down lower. SW companies don’t hire freshly examined persons they want people with at least 3 years of experience but how should you get it when they don’t hire? AI for sure but also long experience needed. It is not 1980ies anymore. Student debt is ridicilous nowdays.

[@mphomatela]

NCOW!!....Young buck!

[@karlroth7082]

I will not be learning Unix.

[@mattparadise3410]

At 2:13 that middle picture of you looks as if you have no legs.

[@389293912]

If you arent using Docker (or its equivalent) you are stealing from your own future. Its almost trivial to learn the basics enough for 80% of requirements.

[@tohirul]

Why do you remind me of Tiffany Tatum

[@seasong7655]

Number 1: Rust

[@simpingsyndrome]

LoL my campus are still teaching adobe flash ::v

[@vijaynats]

People stopped using these more than 10 years back. In today's world stop using paid stuff. Open source has thrashed proprietary stuff from Microsoft, IBM, Adobe etc. In coolest thing to learn today is web3

[@islandfox3983]

Is it just me or does she really say "jYavascript" 😋😋😋?

[@NancyVillegas-oc1gq]

For 3 years I´ve been trading, and it is not bad. But you can get so much more when early, like in private sale, like Staxum has now.

[@connecticutaggie]

Yes, technically Silverlight is "dead" but core to Silverlight was the introduction of WPF & XAML (which were not branded separately until later) and if you are developing for Windows, you do need to know those. So, the alternate to learning Silverlight is to learn what used to be called Silverlight.

[@xybersurfer]

no. you are just confusing matters. just because WPF & XAML were introduced with Silverlight, does not make them Silverlight

[@connecticutaggie]

@@xybersurfer I agree.

[@BagusFebrianNurfalaq-dj6sk]

Do not underestimate the power of getting in early. If you are not in Staxum now, you are lagging behind.

[@maynnemillares]

I'm unsubscribing due to misinformation, simply stupid. Fundamental knowledge is a key to today's virtual environment when it comes to servers. Server management is server management, regardless if you have access to the physical hardware, remote or virtual.

[@villageidiot8718]

So, FORTRAN and COBOL are good. 😃

[@scottross5495]

They probably have a brighter future than Perl

[@DrunkenUFOPilot]

Those are still on my list of things to learn. Later, when I'm done mastering ENIAC machine code!

[@erickcz7359]

I am so happy because I didn't see php technology here in this video baby I know I know! but and many coountries around the world php is not dead php tenchnology will be one most impotant language from develop backend in 2024, in LATAM php is one of the most important whit python .I laugh a lot at those who say that php is dead they don't know what they are taking about . long live php and python I said !!!

[@davidjulitz7446]

PHP is still relevant for low-middle sized web apps and if you want cheap hosting. For example Wordpress is based on PHP and still widely used. Python is also highly relevant these days.

[@KoriLondon-ct3ik]

There is one project that stands out and it is in early phases. It is Staxum. 10m already raised from institutions and now public have their opportunity

[@Neon-kl3fh]

I´m bullish on VRA, Joystream and Staxum. What do you think guys about my picks?

[@profit-ph6rf]

Staxum is all over the news and portals. I think its a great investment opportunity.

[@LaylaEloise-yj9kh]

God bless you all, I hope we all get many x returns by the end of the bull run. I am betting in 100 bucks that Staxum will do 150x by the end of 2024.