Trends for 2021: Software Development

Night and day surfing brought the new forecast for the 2021 trend. Today we will talk a bit about the new ideas, software development tendencies, and thoughts on what new cutting edge technology will be deployed in the coming year. Sure, this is not the ultimate truth, but we hope it will bring food for thought, and heavens know, we hope you'll leave us feedback. So, ready? Go!

As we wrote before, the banking, financial services, insurance (BFSI), and healthcare sector finally decided to automate the redundant documentation because of the lack of personnel. Thanks to epiphany or COVID-19, who knows, the integration of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) bots during software development will make it much faster than in the previous decade.

A significant part of the software development companies already starts to utilize big data to be on the saddle in today's galloping changes. The mass implementation of Hadoop and Spark, as expected, will dramatically increase the data analysis space across software development, which in turn will give a powerful impetus to the software development.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) that came from the pages of fantastic books becomes a powerful tool for the software development companies' day-by-day activity. Web portals, e-commerce stores will use AI-integrated software to analyze customer behavior.

Blockchain still hasn't exhausted development opportunities. Moreover, its integration into the software development process will bring transparency and increase security in business transactions.

About the Internet of Things (IoT), we wrote in detail before. Further development of the Internet of things will lead to the sensors' mass implementation into various devices. For the software development process, it means that the integration of the IoT sensors will lead to scale to engineers' programming skills.

The improvements in this direction will decrease the cycle of feature delivery, make bug fixing frequent and effective, and establish flexibility in the software development process.

As a result of the pandemic shock, the remote working norm brings us to the reality of cloud-centric software development. No matter how pandemic related events develop in the future, cloud programming will be raised, and all data will be stored in the cloud.

The logic of the development goes to the fact that the development team will be able to provide security testing by its resources in the future. This function will be implemented in the frames of the DevOps paradigm and become the usual process.