In the 21st century, we are clearly witnessing Digital Transformation. Technological concepts are fast emerging into practical applications faster than ever. You don’t know what will be the next big thing in programming and technology.
As a contributor to this growth and also as the one who uses it for his own benefit, every user should understand the latest trends. Let’s have a look at the future of programming and software development in 2020.
Containerization
Any development job starts on a certain local server/computing environment and is then deployed to the live server. This transfer between the two different environments often brings bugs and errors with it. This is due to a compatibility issue. This problem is taken care of by CONTANIERIZATION.
Software developers use “CONTAINERS” in the cloud to solve these problems.
Containerization bundles an application together will all the related dependencies, files, and libraries required for it to run efficiently in every computing environment. This technique helps developers to create and deploy applications faster than traditional methods. It is very much likely to become the new norm for software development.
Making Smarter Software with AI First Strategy
Tech giants Google & Microsoft are already moving ahead of everyone by evolving to the AI-First world. The term AI FIRST was made popular by Sundar Pichai in 2017 while announcing Google’s shift to AI-First from a mobile-first strategy.
Google’s concept has always been simple. How it delights its customers? This hunger for user satisfaction made Google hire the most promising AL talent, acquiring several AI firms and whatnot. These developments required the support of new algorithms to support the latest developments in Artificial Intelligence.
AI-First Strategy in a simple statement: “Use Machine Intelligence vs Huam Expertise to make business decisions and maintain a competitive advantage”.
API Integration: To Develop Apps Faster
Whenever we think of collecting and displaying data APIs play a noteworthy part. Developers use third-party APIs. If application development comes into the world with this approach, which it already has, it will bring a huge improvement in many business processes. Using third-party APIs is earlier than developing them in custom.
If we have a proper solution for a business need, it is always easy and more cost-effective than the complement development from scratch. People are already favouring working with various integrations of varied services to suit their needs. So, no custom development.
Improving sales with Data-Driven Rating System
The primary objective of any business is to improve sales. This is possible with online marketing, improving website traffic and possibly converting that traffic into paying clients. To achieve this, we employ a lot of strategies like SEO, SOCIAL MEDIA, PPC and whatnot. Eventually, it’s all about improving sales.
So, how to achieve sales improvement with DATA?
Analyzing & Quantifying the data. With the help of Data Analytics, we can know what methods are improving your website visits. With such specific data, we can plan our next online marketing strategies for pinpoint targeting.
DATA helps your product to reach the target audience. This drives sales. This gives you income.
Advanced Graphics
A concept we all know: “AN IMAGE IS WORTH 1000 WORDS”. With the inseparable bond between humans and devices, businesses require graphical tools to showcase their products and services.
This makes it easy for any user to understand the nature of the product or service easily. Also, reading a blog has become a mundane task for many users. They prefer appealing graphics, videos, and animations.
That’s what drives customer engagement and eventually sales.
Functional Programming
Functional programming is nothing but the process of building software by means of Pure Functions. Coding defects are easily avoided in the shared state.
When we use it as an immutable state, it becomes a memory-saving mechanism.
This kind of programming is majorly used in JavaScript, where the code application is large and it becomes tough to manage and debug. Functional code is more predictable, concise, and easy to test than OOPS.
Serverless Computing
Serverless Architecture aka Function As A Service (FAAS) is a software design pattern where an application is hosted by a third-party service, thus eliminating the need for software and hardware management by the developer himself.
We can scale applications individually with this technique.
The use of virtual servers provided by Amazon & Microsoft can eliminate the physical hardware maintenance concerns, only needing to manage the OS and software processes.
A great example would be Microsoft Azure or AWS Lambda which can take care of all physical hardware, virtual operating systems and complete software management. You only need to worry about YOUR CODE.
Blockchain Technology
Blockchain is a chain of blocks where we store a BLOCK = DIGITAL INFORMATION in a CHAIN = PUBLIC DATABASE.
How does Blockchain work?
Whenever a block stores new data, it is added to the chain. Blockchain consists of multiple blocks attached. Blockchain is available to the public to view data.
A user’s computer is connected to the blockchain via NODES. Through these nodes, the user receives a copy on a blockchain with updated information. Everyone is familiar with Facebook.
The news feed is nothing but a blockchain. The following applications use blockchain :
- Digital payments: 24/7 payment support with security.
- Healthcare data is automatically updated, aggregated and replicated among practitioners.
Technology is growing in every field. You will never know what is the next big thing in programming.
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