According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics, we will see a 20% rise in the need for developers between 2022 and 2030. In a blog post , Leo Brufal , sales operations manager of custom software company Codelitt , speculates as to why this is taking place. His post cites IT projects over budget and behind schedule as the need for low-code/no-code platforms. But I also think they exist engineers like to build them....
How do you feel about platforms that promise to deliver apps without coding? If you express some negative sentiment, then you’re like two-thirds of the customers Progress Software surveyed last year. Despite the bad feelings, a review of recent surveys shows that use of low-code platforms has increased and will continue to do so in the near future. The main reason is that the platforms kill two birds with one stone — they address long-standing development challenges that are holding back company-wide digital transformation efforts....
In order to reduce risk on large software development projects, you need to figure out all the big unknowns as early as possible. The best way to do this is to have a real end-to-end test with no stubs against a system that’s deployed in production. You could do this by building a so-called Walking Skeleton, a term coined by Alistair Cockburn . He defined it as a tiny implementation of the system that performs a small end-to-end function....
Wasm may just be the most important emerging technology that you’ve never heard of. Ok, maybe you’ve heard of it. It’s important! Shorthand for WebAssembly language , Wasm was developed for the web. However, Wasm technology has expanded beyond the web browser. Now organizations are starting to run Wasm on the server side. For example, my company, SingleStore, is using it in our database. Some think Wasm will replace container technology and the ubiquitous JavaScript ....
Matejmo / Getty Images New languages, and improvements on existing ones, are mushrooming throughout the develoment landscape. Mozilla’s Rust , Apple’s Swift , Jetbrains’s Kotlin , and many other languages provide developers with a new range of choices for speed, safety, convenience, portability, and power. Why now? One big reason is new tools for building languages—specifically, compilers. And chief among them is LLVM , an open source project originally developed by Swift language creator Chris Lattner as a research project at the University of Illinois....
fabio ballasina (CC0) In just four short years, WebAssembly has broken free of its origins as a useful browser-based technology and now powers some of the world’s most complex distributed applications, from streaming platforms like Disney+ to e-commerce powerhouse Shopify. WebAssembly’s journey beyond the browser WebAssembly , or WASM for short, was developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and first published in 2018. It is, in their words, a “compilation target,” which means developers can bring their own code—typically Rust , C++, or AssemblyScript —and WebAssembly compiles it to bytecode to execute on the web browser at high speed....