BrainBlog for Quickbase by Jason Bloomberg
Modern application development continues to advance rapidly, as innovation among processes and tooling struggle to keep up with the demands of digitally savvy customers and corporate employees.
These advancements, however, largely fall into two camps: business-driven and technology-driven.
Business-driven application development efforts focus on the behavior of software at the user interface, spanning traditional computers as well as the full range of devices from smartphones to tablets to specialized equipment interfaces.
Technology-driven development centers on applications or application components like microservices that interact with databases and other systems of record, as well as third-party cloud-based applications. Instead of user interfaces, many technology-centric applications deliver functionality and data to business-centric applications via application programming interfaces (APIs).
Innovation in both business and technology-driven application development will continue to drive forward in 2022 – as well as a related trend that seeks in part to bring both perspectives together into an end-to-end effort focused on customer value.
This end-to-end effort is an integral part of any organization’s digital transformation initiative. 2022 may be the year that organizations successfully bring their digital transformation priorities to the application development landscape.
Technology-Driven Development Trends for 2022
Within enterprise IT departments, cloud-native computing has become a fundamental paradigm shift in enterprise software infrastructure. The IT organization thus becomes a support organization for the business, helping to extend the scalability and elasticity benefits of the cloud to all of IT, providing support for faster, more scalable applications across the entire enterprise landscape.
Leveraging these cloud-native best practices are a range of modern software development trends, including DevOps, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), and GitOps. These practices promise faster, higher quality software from organizations who have multiple teams working on increasingly dynamic software initiatives.
2022 will see a continuing maturity of these software trends as enterprises transition to cloud-native computing across their hybrid IT landscapes.
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