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This topic has been translated from a Chinese forum by GPT and might contain errors.Original topic: 内含资料下载丨黄东旭：2024 现代应用开发关键趋势——降低成本、简化架构
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As an engineer and entrepreneur, founding PingCAP was a deep dive into the world of innovation for me. This journey has been filled with exhilarating discoveries and daunting uncertainties. TiDB, which has witnessed this adventure, now serves over 3,000 enterprises globally, including both large companies that have achieved commercial success and many startups.
From my own entrepreneurial experience and the stories of TiDB users, I have found that technical decisions in the early stages of a company’s development are far more important than we imagine and have a huge impact on the company’s future success or failure. While having a groundbreaking idea is important, mastering the art of product development—predicting user needs and choosing technologies that meet business growth demands—is key.
In the environment of 2024 and beyond, understanding and leveraging the right technology could be the key factor that determines whether a company’s business grows rapidly or stagnates. In this article, I will share my observations on key application development trends: how enterprises can build cost-effective, simplified, and powerful data infrastructures.
Top Three Trends to Watch in 2024
First, let’s review the past few years. In 2022, application development was divided into front-end technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, and back-end technologies like Java, Python, and Golang. Meanwhile, emerging platforms like Vercel, Next.js, and Netlify quickly changed this landscape. By the second half of 2022, the boundaries between front-end and back-end development began to blur, merging into a coherent, agile experience.
I believe that for companies that value simplified operations and reducing “complexity,” agility remains the most important factor influencing future application development. Based on the current situation, I have summarized three key trends that I hope will help application developers who are starting their own businesses achieve “cost reduction and efficiency increase”: how to achieve maximum scalability with minimal cost.
In today’s cost-prioritized technological environment, I believe these insights can effectively help everyone find the right path for themselves.
Trend One: Everything Can Be Serviced, Including Serverless Itself
Remember the days when we used to wrestle with infrastructure just to get a “Hello World” online? Those days are long gone. Today’s software development is rapidly shifting towards service-oriented from the development stage—from classic IaaS/PaaS/SaaS to today’s Serverless and API. “Plug and play” is the experience we are more familiar with now because everything has been “serviced.”
Serverless and API technologies allow us to completely disregard server configurations, helping developers build and deliver applications more quickly and conveniently. Serverless allows developers to focus on business logic without worrying about the underlying infrastructure. APIs facilitate data exchange and resource sharing, accelerating application integration and collaboration, thereby improving system efficiency and quality.
Trend Two: The Rise of JavaScript
JavaScript has entered a long and critical phase of development, no longer just a gimmick for front-end technology. The rise of full-stack JavaScript, especially Node.js, has blurred the boundaries between front-end and back-end development, allowing developers to complete all development work for both the front-end and back-end of applications with one language. Node.js’s non-blocking I/O and event-driven features perform excellently in high-concurrency, I/O-intensive applications. In Stack Overflow’s 2023 developer survey, JavaScript became the most commonly used programming language for the eleventh consecutive year.
Additionally, the emergence of JavaScript-friendly Serverless hosting platforms provides developers with rapid development and deployment, as well as real-time preview capabilities, greatly enhancing the application development experience. These tools and technologies have greatly enriched the JavaScript technology ecosystem, helping it become one of the most productive and creative programming languages.
Trend Three: The Significant Impact of AI on Software Development
In 2023, AI has already improved application development efficiency at various levels, and in 2024 and beyond, AI’s role will only become more important. AI acts like a super-intelligent assistant, helping you write, test, and deploy code while you rest.
The deep application of AI technology will bring an indelible and profound impact on the software development industry. Take the well-known ChatGPT as an example—it has changed the game. It can not only automatically generate, test, and deploy code but also help us quickly capture errors in the code, improve user satisfaction, and enhance both the “quality” and “quantity” of the code, making our applications smarter and the experience smoother.
How to Navigate Modern Application Development in 2024 and Beyond?
As mentioned earlier, the landscape of modern application development is constantly evolving, and only by adapting to changes can one gain an edge in the new generation of application development. If you already have a clear entrepreneurial idea and have started software development, you should still remember that only continuous innovation, rapid adaptation, and timely strategy adjustments can keep you on the right path.
Our “2024 and Beyond Modern Application Development Handbook” provides you with a high-level roadmap to help you navigate the complexities of modern application development. It offers phased strategies, technology stack recommendations, and best practices to guide you towards success.
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THE PLAYBOOK for Modern Application Development.pdf (3.6 MB)
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