10 Software Development Trends to Implement in your Project to Become a Market Leader

Software development is a field where trends come and go as easily as in fashion. Staying updated on these technological points will help you build a cutting-edge digital product. Even if you're
Setting standards for developers’ work to help them
ITIL is an Information Technology Infrastructure Library that provides developers with the fullest guidance on the
In 2019 the ITIL Foundation released the fourth version of the library, which is set to outshine existing methodologies like DevOps and Agile.
Advantages: A completely new set of practices on how to
Disadvantages: If you or your team has already worked with ITIL 3, you will have to transition from it to ITIL 4.
GitOps is another methodology competing with DevOps for the attention of software developers. The main source of truth here is Git – a free and open source distributed version control system created to manage huge and small-scale projects quickly and efficiently.
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Cons: For some projects, traditional computing methods prove themselves more effective. The technology was announced in 2018, and its development is still in progress.
The desire to cut the time spent on priority development inspired the creation of platforms where software can be developed by “solving a puzzle” of different features in a graphical interface completely devoid of programming.
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Cons: The solution is okay for a
Cases: Low code platform for businesses.
In 2019, integrated systems are becoming even more widespread. They threaten to displace the positions of bespoke software since they are faster and cheaper to make.
Benefits: Fast, not expensive, allows you to access all the data in one place.
Drawbacks: Integrated systems cannot completely take the place of bespoke software as their functionality is not enough to deal with all the declared issues.
BI software is a great support to the business analytics department of every company. It successfully processes massive volumes of data and provides the results in clear, illustrative form. Using SaaS you can get valuable data even if you do not have own BI system.
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When you store a lot of information on a server, data processing becomes slow and the server response can be delayed. In the case of cloud computing, the data is processed in the cloud as in the case of Google Services or Amazon Web services.
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Weaker points: If something happens with the cloud, it will be very hard to recover the data if a backup has not been done in time.
Cases: The most widely-used cloud console internationally.
Cybersecurity is a major issue today, one which blockchain is empowered to solve. Though mostly associated with cryptocurrency, today such multi-level security control has proved itself to be effective.
Stronger points: Hacking a blockchain system is almost impossible due to its architecture.
Weaker points: Blockchain has some specific difficulties, as it is a complicated system where control over the data is distributed among all the participants of the chain and where the user cannot just do something privately.
Cases: The first virtual assistant for blockchain.
Trusting monotonous, high-accuracy or dangerous jobs to computers can be achieved with the appearance of intelligent computers that can conduct various operations even more effectively than humans.
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Disadvantages: Expensive technology with a lengthy preliminary period for AI-education. Needs advanced hardware and software to be implemented and expert developers for maintenance.
Example: 4-level autonomous driving.
With privacy data protection regulations, the process of invulnerability of existing software solution testing becomes vital for any business. Manual testing thus becomes a never-ending vicious circle.
Numerous online SaaS speed up
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Weaker points: Automated testing cannot completely replace manual testing. Both methods work best when combined.
Projects: Selenium server for testing web software products.
There are two main approaches to programming: monolithic code and microservices. The latter, which are basically sub-applications that work together, are now becoming more and more popular for the particular types of tasks as developers have
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