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The Scale, Speed, and Spend of Low Code: Benefits and Challenges of Low-Code Platforms

Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2024 Trend Report, Low-Code Development: Elevating the Engineering Experience With Low and No Code.

The relevance of low-code development is growing as businesses seek to accelerate their digital transformation, improve operational efficiencies, and respond swiftly to market changes. By democratizing app development, low-code platforms enable both professional developers and non-technical users to build, deploy, and maintain software solutions efficiently.

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Empowering Citizen Developers With Low- and No-Code Tools: Changing Developer Workflows and Empowering Non-Technical Employees to Build Apps

Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2024 Trend Report, Low-Code Development: Elevating the Engineering Experience With Low and No Code.

The rise of low-code and no-code (LCNC) platforms has sparked a debate about their impact on the role of developers. Concerns about skill devaluation are understandable; after all, if anyone can build an app, what happens to the specialized knowledge of experienced programmers? 

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Orchestrating IAT, IPA, and RPA With Low-Code Platforms: Benefits and Challenges of Advanced Automation and Testing

Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2024 Trend Report, Low-Code Development: Elevating the Engineering Experience With Low and No Code.

When software development teams face pressure to deliver high-quality applications rapidly, low-code platforms offer the needed support for rapidly evolving business requirements and complex integrations. Integrating intelligent automated testing (IAT), intelligent process automation (IPA), and robotic process automation (RPA) solutions, which can adapt to changes more readily, ensures that testing and automation keep pace with the evolving applications and processes. In a low-code development environment, as shown in Figure 1, IAT, IPA, and RPA can reduce manual effort and improve test coverage, accuracy, and efficiency in the SDLC and process automation.

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The Role of AI in Low- and No-Code Development

Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2024 Trend Report, Low-Code Development: Elevating the Engineering Experience With Low and No Code.

The advent of large language models (LLMs) has led to a rush to shoehorn artificial intelligence (AI) into every product that makes sense, as well as into quite a few that don't. But there is one area where AI has already proven to be a powerful and useful addition: low- and no-code software development.

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Transforming Software Development With Low-Code and No-Code Integration

Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2024 Trend Report, Low-Code Development: Elevating the Engineering Experience With Low and No Code.

Although the traditional software development lifecycle (SDLC) is slow and incapable of addressing dynamic business needs, it has long been the most popular way companies build applications — that was until low- and no-code (LCNC) tools entered the fray. These tools simplify the coding process so that advanced developers and non-technical users can contribute, enabling organizations to respond rapidly to market needs by shortening the SDLC.

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New Ways for CNAPP to Shift Left and Shield Right: The Technology Trends That Will Allow CNAPP to Address More Extensive Threat Models

Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2024 Trend Report, Cloud Native: Championing Cloud Development Across the SDLC.

The cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) model is designed to secure applications that leverage cloud-native technologies. However, applications not in the scope are typically legacy systems that were not designed to operate within modern cloud infrastructures. Therefore, in practice, CNAPP covers the security of containerized applications, serverless functions, and microservices architectures, possibly running across different cloud environments.

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The Impact of AI and Platform Engineering on Cloud Native’s Evolution: Automate Your Cloud Journey to Light Speed

Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2024 Trend Report, Cloud Native: Championing Cloud Development Across the SDLC.

2024 and the dawn of cloud-native AI technologies marked a significant jump in computational capabilities. We're experiencing a new era where artificial intelligence (AI) and platform engineering converge to transform cloud computing landscapes. AI is now merging with cloud computing, and we're experiencing an age where AI transcends traditional boundaries, offering scalable, efficient, and powerful solutions that learn and improve over time. Platform engineering is providing the backbone for these AI systems to operate within cloud environments seamlessly. 

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Observations on Cloud-Native Observability: A Journey From the Foundations of Observability to Surviving Its Challenges at Scale

Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2024 Trend Report, Cloud Native: Championing Cloud Development Across the SDLC.

Cloud native and observability are an integral part of developer lives. Understanding their responsibilities within observability at scale helps developers tackle the challenges they are facing on a daily basis. There is more to observability than just collecting and storing data, and developers are essential to surviving these challenges.

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Achieving High Availability in CI/CD With Observability

Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2024 Trend Report, The Modern DevOps Lifecycle: Shifting CI/CD and Application Architectures.

Forbes estimates that cloud budgets will break all previous records as businesses will spend over $1 trillion on cloud computing infrastructure in 2024. Since most application releases depend on cloud infrastructure, having good continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and end-to-end observability becomes essential for ensuring highly available systems. By integrating observability tools in CI/CD pipelines, organizations can increase deployment frequency, minimize risks, and build highly available systems. Complementing these practices is site reliability engineering (SRE), a discipline ensuring system reliability, performance, and scalability.

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Eliminate Human-Based Actions With Automated Deployments: Improving Commit-to-Deploy Ratios Along the Way

Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2024 Trend Report, The Modern DevOps Lifecycle: Shifting CI/CD and Application Architectures.

Thirty years later, I still love being a software engineer. In fact, I've recently read Will Larson's "Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track," which has further ignited my passion for solving complicated problems programmatically. Knowing that employers continue to accommodate the staff, principle, and distinguished job classifications provides a breath of fresh air for technologists who want to thrive as an engineer.

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Integrating Software Supply Chains and DevOps: Tips for Effectively Reconciling Supply Chain Management and DevOps

Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2024 Trend Report, The Modern DevOps Lifecycle: Shifting CI/CD and Application Architectures.

Software supply chains (SSCs) have become a prevalent topic in the software development world, and for good reason. As software development has matured, so has our understanding of the dependencies that can affect the security and the legal standing of our products. We only have to hear names like Log4Shell to remember how crippling a single vulnerability can be.

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A Comprehensive DevSecOps Guide: Key Considerations to Effectively Secure Your CI/CD Pipeline

Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2024 Trend Report, The Modern DevOps Lifecycle: Shifting CI/CD and Application Architectures.

The era of digital transformation has brought about the need for faster, efficient, and more secure software development processes. Enter DevSecOps: a philosophy that integrates security practices into DevOps processes and aims to embed security into every stage of the development lifecycle — from the writing of code to application deployment in production. The incorporation of DevSecOps can lead to numerous benefits such as early identification of vulnerabilities, cost savings, and faster delivery times.

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Creating a 10 million visits a month community at DZone

Before Kellet Atkinson was the Director of Product at DZone, he was flexing his entrepreneurial muscles by building custom-made guitar pedals for his friends.

He joins the Dev Interrupted podcast to talk about the joy of building communities, why it's so important to create communities that encourage people to share their experience and how DZone grew to a site that has 10 million page views a month.

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Are You Taking the Right Approach to Cloud Databases?

Trends in cloud data storage continue to accelerate at a rapid pace. Now more than ever, organizations must evaluate their current and future data storage needs to find solutions that align with business goals. While cloud databases are relatively new to the scene, they show tremendous prospect in securing and managing data.

In selecting our topic for this Trend Report, we found the amount of promise and advancement in the space to be unparalleled. This Report highlights DZone’s original research on cloud databases and contributions from the community, as well as introduces new offerings within DZone Trend Reports.