Worldwide Developer & DevOps

Industry Predictions 2018

Source: IDC
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2018 Predictions

1
Situational application needs will drive growth in the numbers of
low-/no-code developers by triple digits through 2021, with these
nontraditional developers building 20% of business applications and
30% of new application features in 2021.

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2
The use of containers as a deployment vehicle for applications will
continue to grow quickly; by 2021, over 95% of new microservices
will be deployed in containers, but under 20% of enterprise
containers will house microservices.

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3
Cognitive computing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning
will become the fastest growing segments of software development
by the end of 2018; by 2021, 90% of organizations will be
incorporating cognitive/AI and machine learning into new
enterprise apps.

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4
By 2019, over 70% of routine development-lifecycle tasks will be
automated, supported by AI fed from existing data streams, with an
agile DevOps pipeline driving and incubating lifecycle and
application development intelligence.

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5
Through 2021, dev tools based on OSS and polyglot environments
and multiplatform support will lead to an increase in language
agnosticism, and gravitation to a core set of 3–5 best of breed
languages, although commercial support for OSS dev environments
will remain key

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6
Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft, and Salesforce (“megaplatforms”)
will win the minds of developers through 2020, when 50% of
developers will be consuming cloud-hosted services from them,
regardless of where the primary deployment location is for these
applications.

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7
Cloud functions will gradually transition to mainstream, becoming
less proprietary in the process, which must happen to sustain
growth. By 2021, 80% of Fortune 1000 companies will conduct at
least one routine task using cloud functions.

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8
Market competition and third-party choice will dominate bespoke
cloud-adoption decisions through 2021, with up to 70% of large
enterprises refusing to build or re-platform custom mission-critical
solutions on clouds from providers that offer only their own
proprietary PaaS extensions.

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9
By 2021, over 50% of CIOs will have appointed heads of delivery;
integrated their dev, PMO, and ops groups; reduced silos; expanded
their DevOps practices; and implemented shift-left testing to
accelerate innovation.

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10
Development without integrated security and compliance will fail;
progressive orgs have prioritized security due to uptime and
compliance concerns, accelerating the need for agility and a curated
OSS-dev portfortfolio. Security-led development will be a priority
for 90% of orgs by 2020

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