2015 has been a great year. I moved out from my comfort zone in Pune, to the hustle and bustle of Bangalore, otherwise known as the Silicon Valley of India.

I’ve had a chance to closely observe the startup ecosystem bubbling with ideas, engulfing every aspect of life.

2015, was the year when the investor ecosystem understood the need for IoT over eCommerce. That being said, I do acknowledge that eCommerce is here to stay.

The sheer convenience of being able to laze around at home, order food, grocery and even housemaids online is surprising. Looks like the future is already here.

As a programmer at heart, I still look back at the year and notice that a lot of things have clearly changed for the good:

• Web developers are not asked if they know responsive programming. They are assumed to know it by default.
• Developers have started coding with base.css files by default. Reducing their own clutter and resolving those introduced by the browsers.
• IE is finally dead! Yes, Microsoft acknowledged that IE was flawed. We do have EDGE now, and hopefully it will be better at conforming to standards.
• Flash was not seen on any mainstream website. (apart from the famous copy-to-clipboard hacks for legacy browsers.)
• React, Angular, Ember have become the norms for client side development. And by the time this reaches you, tens of more plugins would have been released in the repositories.
• AWS did face outages, but were resolved quickly. While it was a really bad time for the website/platform owners, I did speak on why it was a good thing to happen. It made the developers realise that the cloud is not something to be treated like a supreme monolith. It has a certain hardware component to it, bound to fail sometime. Be prepared.

While 2015 was a great year and taught me a lot of things. I hope 2016 allows me to learn even more. Hope to make a lot of open source contributions this year!