I want to share a series of blog posts I wrote on the Blink Reaction site, on these articles I shared some ideas about what's comming on Drupal 8, Symfony components and other concepts related to modern PHP development that are going to be part of "The New Drupal Way".
Hopefully after reading those articles have yourself interested to try Drupal 8, even when is still on alpha state.
If you want to try Drupal 8 without worrying about configuring your local environment you may use the following online services:
If you want to try Drupal 8 in your local environment then you may try using a Drupal 8 ready Virtual Machine:
Feel free to add a comment if there is any other online services or Virtual Machine to try Drupal 8.
Image credit blink reaction site: http://www.blinkreaction.com/blog/build-it-with-drupal-8