Personal Progress Development: New Software Engineering Trends

December 23, 2017

New Software Engineering Trends

Software development along with web and mobile development is one of the industries that fuels its own progress. The ever-improving technologies, new frameworks, more advanced hardware, and all sorts of acceleration tools lead to better products which ultimately lead to better production.

Constant self-improvement, optimization, immense creative talent pool, and the passion side the tech industry, make an enormous tidal wave that you can’t afford to pass on, but need to ride in order to stay relevant. Some trends emerge and become a staple. Some are just fun for a while but disappear unnoted. And some you just can’t believe noone has figured out yet

Cloud Computing

Scaling resources to gain efficiency has led to the first wave of cloud service boom with original Amazon’s Web Services. Now many believe we are entering something like a second wave and as business software and web is moving towards big data management, the more diverse and cloud data centers come into play.

Cloud represents the maturation of the IT industry.
― Mark V. Hurd

Trends to keep an eye on:

Smaller and regional providers
On-premise solutions.
Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI).
Cloud containers.

Artificial Intelligence

The shift towards AI expectations in future projections happened quite some time ago, but as of now, it seems that AI is finally getting there. Anticipatory design, chatbots, and immersive UX rise that we witnessed last year have all the chances to take it further this year.

By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.
― Ray Kurzweil

Trends to keep an eye on:

Reinforcement learning.
AI data synthesis.
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Mobility

For the past decade, the world has been increasingly dominated by mobile devices, and we have submerged ourselves with the functionality and convenience brought by the app-based experience, that our desire for similar fluent experience translates to browser expectations as well.

Your mobile device has quickly become the easiest portal into your digital self.

― Phil Nickinson

Trends to keep an eye on:

Companion Apps
Bring-Your-Own-Devices (BYOD)
Customer Experience.
Wearables.

Mobile development trends are on the crossroads of technology, imagination, business vision, and fashion. Either of these segments might hog the blanket to themselves and define the general mobility trend for the coming months.

Internet of Things (IoT)

Considering the rise of customer satisfaction and customer experience (CX) trends, it makes total sense that companies will be looking for new ways to improve their business opportunities, boost sales, increase loyalty, and reliability of their products and services. There is no better way to do it rather than implement internet technology to where there was none at all.

Internet of Things is a movement towards connecting things to the internet that normally would not be present online. Things like your fridge or a toaster, a car engine, or even parts of your house can send and receive data.

Trends to keep an eye on:

Blockchain
Connectivity
Watson API Explorer
Platforms

Web Development Predictions

With all major businesses, service providers, and influencers having strong online presence, it becomes the matter of perception of their presence and the quality of content they generate. The web development and design talent demand is high like never before and with the growth of technologies, we can expect the bar raised in 2016 to be taken higher this year.

Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.
– Ralph Johnson

Trends to keep an eye on:

Angular 2
Rails 5
ECMAScript 2017
TypeScript 2.2

Open Source

Once introduced to the public, the open source technology became an integral part of every developer’s toolkit. The strong network of knowledge builds a powerful community that collectively benefits from the strengths of its individuals.

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.
― Bill Nye

he idea of a beneficial open source collaboration led to more and more companies and solutions providing their APIs to empower developers and startups to integrate the solutions and discover the hidden potential. Open source communities operate by their own laws and knowing what exactly is going on might give you an edge on competition and bring your integration to another level.

Trends to keep an eye on: