With so many trends and innovations in the modern app development area, it’s hard to keep up with what might actually work for you. Let’s take a look at the most hyped trends and predictions right now to figure out which techs can help you put together the most successful solution for your business in the year to come. For more details, view the site and contact professional developers.
Artificial Intelligence: A Friend or Foe?
Lots of people are now terrified by the idea that much hyped artificial intelligence might take their jobs. Well, it’s safe to say this won’t happen in the foreseeable future. The reason why such apprehensions emerge in the first place is because of things like GPT-3, which is a generative pre-trained auto-regressive transformer language model. It can do lots of kinds of scary things including writing code. Today, dedicated AI tools and apps where you can simply describe the layout of your website and they will automatically generate the actual HTML, CSS, or React code. Some developers are successfully building full-fledged startups around these concepts today. But AI is not yet powerful and skillful enough to surpass human intelligence, which means it won’t substitute human coders in the foreseeable future. And here’s why. Once AI starts writing code, it will become potent enough to create its own AI, and that will be a true inflection point propelling humanity to the technological singularity. That’s where all people will fuse together as one biodigital organism. Alternatively, our digital overlords will enslave or exterminate humanity altogether. Fortunately, this science-fiction-like scenario still seems to be far from reality. So, your job and calm existence are safe so far.
No-Code Revolution
No-code and low-code tools are making massive inroads into the modern web and app development market. They make it much easier for people without any relevant skills or engineering background to develop applications for entertainment or business or create websites. The most accessible and popular techs that allow you to create your own business website or online store for free are those provided by Webflow. You also might have heard of Google’s AppSheet and Amazon’s Honeycode, which are just great for building effective web and mobile applications without writing any code. Over the last couple of years, there’s been a ton of venture capital flowing into low-code/no-code apps. It’s a great area to be in if you’re creating some sort of startup and don’t have a big development budget. But you also might be wondering if these tools might leave coders and developers jobless. We seriously doubt that. Good coding skills and relevant experience will always be in demand. And professionals can make good use of no-code/low-code solutions to expedite the overall development process and reduce the amount of monotonous work. For example, your developers can take advantage of a no-code tool to scaffold a user interface quickly instead of spending a week building a baseline prototype. Once they’re done with tedious and time-consuming tasks, they can go on to develop more exciting and useful features for your solution that low-code tools can’t handle.
Server is Dead?
Long live serverless, which are actually servers, but ones that you never have to worry about or maintain. The growth of serverless computing has been accelerating for the last few years. With tools like AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud functions leading the way, you can forget about slow deployment and hindrances most regular servers are fraught with.
Serverless can free you up for more flexible releases and focusing on your UX. That being said, there are some drawbacks you might want to familiarize yourself with prior to using the serverless architecture. One of them is high latency, which can be experienced during the cold start. But with AWS Lambda’s new feature called provisioned concurrency, which ensures you always have a hot function available, this is no longer a considerable problem. Another limitation with serverless, though, is that you can’t take control of the runtime with a dock or container. But now that Lambda and Google Cloud started to support containers, this limitation doesn’t seem scary. As for running workloads, they can be quite hard on your wallet if you opt for serverless. So, in some cases, it’s more efficient to use good old servers for long-running processes.
All in all, the bottom line here is that serverless functions are becoming suitable for more and more use cases. On top of that, we’re now starting to see more serverless databases like Firestore for FaunaDB. In the not-so-distant future, it will be rare for app developers to have to think about how to scale or maintain their backend infrastructure. Everything will just magically work in the cloud similar to how your electricity works when you plug something into the wall. It’s incredibly simple, and the industry has been trending this way for a long time.
