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Most Trending Tech Stacks for Web Development Fitting Your Needs

Millions of business enterprises are competing to set a foothold in the competitive market. As technology trends are changing fast, businesses look at the mobile and web application sectors to reach their audience and serve them. Technological advances and the availability of app development tools and technologies propel organizations to pick the best one as per their changing needs. Broadly speaking, the tech stack is the mechanism that makes your website or web app run smoothly. Hence, technology stacks catch all eyes when it comes to developing a programming project. Moreover, it isn't easy to pick up the right tech stack for newer web projects.

Technology Stack Trends

A 2020 survey on the usage of libraries, frameworks, and tools among software developers globally by Statista, a data research company, shows that Node.js is the first choice of 51.4 percent of respondents. .NET, .Net Core, and Pandas are preferred by 35.1 percent, 26.7%, and 15.5% developers respectively.  The survey also exhibits the usage growth of newer technologies like data analysis and machine learning. 

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Improving Mobile App Performance With a Powerful Database

You are probably aware that there are seemingly endless options to consider when it comes to selecting a database and other technologies for your mobile app. With so many choices, it can be difficult and confusing to determine what really matters when it comes to your tech stack. A little while back, I wrote an extensive article on the different database architectures and use cases available to provide guidance on picking the right technology for the right project. While that is still an accurate and solid resource, this article takes a deeper dive into considerations for improving the performance of, specifically, mobile apps.

Mobile vs. Web Apps

First and foremost, perhaps we should take a quick look at the difference between mobile and web apps. Mobile apps live and run on a mobile device itself, whereas web apps are accessed through a web browser and will adapt to whichever device you're viewing them on. Native mobile apps are built for a specific platform, such as iOS for Apple or Android for, well, pretty much everything else. They are downloaded and installed through an app store and have access to system resources, such as GPS and the camera function. Web apps, however, are not native to a particular system and do not need to be downloaded or installed. Due to their responsive nature, they may look and function a lot like mobile apps, which is where some confusion arises.

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Building a Modern B2B E-Commerce Tech Stack

Introduction

Most articles about building e-commerce software focus on B2C (business-to-consumer) settings. While B2C is widely written about, there are far fewer technical guides for developers in the $1.3 trillion B2B (business-to-business) e-commerce industry. B2B e-commerce is notably different from B2C retailing, and building software for this industry poses a unique set of challenges.

In this post, I’ll shed some light on building a modern, scalable B2B e-commerce platform. I’ll share some of the technical considerations you’ll make and architectural decisions you’ll encounter. Along the way, I’ll mention a few tools that will help you build B2B e-commerce software faster.

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A Complete Guide To Develop A Cloud-Based Application

The term cloud computing is all the rage at present. Businesses from across the globe are more inclined towards cloud-based technology and are rapidly hosting in the cloud.

We can say that the cloud is a platform that hosts an abundance of computing resources over the internet as an easy-to-use and on-demand utility that can be utilized on a pay-as-you-go basis.

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Taking a Modern Approach to BI

When legacy Business Intelligence (BI) solutions emerged, the goal was to simplify data access and analysis across an entire company. Sadly, the benefits of these solutions were never realized. Decades later, companies still aren’t seeing the adoption they expected—meanwhile, billions have been spent on BI. Something is clearly missing.

According to IDC, worldwide revenues for big data and BI solutions will reach $260 billion in 2022. Yet, even with all this projected growth, Tableau’s & PowerBI's success, and Looker’s $103 million-dollar funding round, 88% of IT decision makers will choose Excel as the primary tool to explore company data in 2019. So what gives?

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Open Standards vs. Open Source: Why So Confused While Choosing a Tech Stack?

Any application development requires a lot of planning and preparation before the start of actual app building. Choosing a suitable technology stack, which includes programming languages, tools, and frameworks is a big challenge because it plays a crucial role in the software development lifecycle.

The process of choosing a tech stack is generally based on a wide range of considerations like the capabilities of the technical team and the cost of tools and platforms required for the application development. The software building costs depend on whether you choose open source, freemium or premium frameworks for your tech stack. But, in the process of considering the cost and benefits of individual frameworks, teams sometimes tend to overlook whether the resulting tech stack is compliant to open standards or not. This happens because the terms open source and open standards are often used interchangeably as they are some of the most confused terms in software terminology. Experts at Imaginea say that it is essential to understand and differentiate these terms as both have their own significance and each play a notable role in the complete SDLC.