AEM Headless - Adoption

 AEM Headless options have been around from 2017... But adoption is slower as baring few vertical segments (Retail and Media) the need for headless architectures for content were not visible. 

But post pandemic, the need for quirky solutions to reach to the customer are becoming evident everywhere.

The retail explosion is visible in digital world. I look around and I buy most daily stuff digitally.

Media consumption has already moved even before the pandemic.

But, will this new set of restrictions place more stress on other vertical segments to reach to the customers more  obviously in digital media? 

I think, a big YES!! (Education, Insurance, Manufacturing etc)

The leader in the content segment has capabilities needed for this but has not closed on all future needs and expectations..

I think its still trailing with cloud commerce engines for the right reasons.. Its too early to decide how the traditional verticals will jump into full scale digital. For e.g., how long will text survive and how soon will voice and VR take over in these verticals..

Big Investments need Big Decisions..

New scripting strategy with GraalVM (New oracle jvm competing with traditional JDK base)

The new strategy to diverge from non java scripting languages is a marquee change in jvm strategy after a decade. Though graalvm would support its own version of ecmascript (standards based js), enterprise adoption would become difficult for this.. 

How soon can prime enterprise customers adopt the new jdk strategy vs moving to open jdk (also supports ecmascript) base or graalvm for retaining the developer comfort and architectural flexibilty (programming language specific) is a million dollar question...

How long will JDK remain free starting JDK 17? Will it take over / compete with the node js and other micro service frameworks in the new cloud native world?

Too early to answer, I think..