I also embraced messaging for good and was shocked at how easy NServiceBus makes everything regarding AMPQ.
I continued to celebrate .NET Core advancements and use it for all my server side programming.
I also dipped my feet in Scala and really like what I found .. Q1 of 2019 will be Scala heavy at work, then back to .NET Core.
E: Forget, every single project I have is set up in Azure Devops now for build/deployment. It's amazing.