The role of the developer is changing
By Ray Ploski
March 9, 2012 —
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DevOps entails direct collaboration among everyone involved in the development of a solution, including developers working hand-in-hand with IT managers, testers, operations personnel, and especially the business stakeholders. This convergence will continue, leading to greater agility and faster deployment for the organization, as well as a larger role for developers that organization.
Still, challenges remain that organizations must address. For example, while the DevOps model offers greater efficiencies, corporations are struggling with how to incorporate it while still complying with Sarbanes-Oxley and PCI regulations. Also, organizations need to continually consider the best ways to leverage current investments in IT infrastructures, given PaaS solutions and the DevOps model.
Explosion of mobile
If there were ever a doubt that the explosive popularity of mobile was something developers need to pay close attention to this year, it should have been eliminated by Apple’s Q1 2012 earnings call. There, the company noted there were more iOS devices sold in 2011 than all Macintosh computers sold in the company’s 28-year history.
Without focusing on mobile, developers risk reducing their applications’ market share. And this market is only going to get bigger and more crowded, as mobile expands beyond smartphones and tablets to an even broader base of devices with multiple form factors.
Luckily, there have been many innovations within the industry to reduce the amount of extra work required to deal with the variety of devices. The trend toward applications written in HTML5 and CSS3 will accelerate. Technologies that produce hybrid applications that launch Plain Old HTML5 sites using native device functionality will be part of the majority of developers’ toolkits moving forward. Those that choose to embrace native SDKs will find interoperability through RESTful services.
Economic developer-ment
Finally, another big driving factor is something that’s been around for centuries: economics.
It’s estimated that after each economic downturn, only 60% of companies that were in the top quartile prior to the previous recession retained their leadership position. On the surface this may seem like a negative, but it’s actually been somewhat of a benefit to many developers in that it is a primary force behind the drive toward agile development.
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