I attended a recentl AWS User Group event in Dublin as a small insight into what is happening in this world......

One of the tenets of New Years is around 'resolutions' and 'predictions' for the forthcoming year. Thankfully I've learned the lessons that starting a resolution to kick off the year usually fail in the first 3-4 weeks so tend to stay away from them, choosing goals based on my interests and motivations, not on an arbitrary date in the calendar.