No longer does one-size-fit-all when it comes to data technology. At least not for many of today’s use cases. Will this ever change? Will we continue to diversify? Will we go full circle? Certainly ours is an industry in flux. NoSQL, Big Data and stream technology, containerisation, commodity PCIe storage, non-volatile memory and a host of other forces will shape the data technologies of the future. ;In this talk will make a case for what the future may look like, what challenges we’ll encounter and how it will likely change the applications we build.