- How to use containers, even managing them.
- Being more autonomous - developers love freedom.
- Keeping up to date on skills (see containers).
- Dealing with or hiding from stupid business culture in their org.
- Getting permission to try new things.
- Testing code, automation to avoid legacy traps.
- More scalable architecture for distributed apps, new types of data stores for dealing with new types of apps. [Maybe Thought Works style radar thing]
- Modernizing old core and frameworks that they're stuck with.
What else do they like talking and learning about?