In today’s digital era, we are living a life that is governed by software. Everything we do – reading news to transacting business to paying our bills to accessing reports on our laptops or mobile devices – there is a code running in the background and making all this possible. The ever expanding cloud is keeping us connected to the digital world 24/7, and this too is the end-result of sophisticated coding by someone sitting somewhere. This is truly the golden age of software development. No wonder, plenty of business opportunities are knocking at the doors of experienced and leading software development companies in Lebanon and many prominent IT hubs of the world.
A testimony to the fact that the golden age of software development has arrived is the wide array of choices that are available to developers – of all skill levels – in tools, languages, platforms and architectural frameworks or styles. The list of options is growing every day. Only sky is the limit for talented developers when it comes to building innovative and wildly inventive software. They have all the tools in their hands and they are doing a fantastic job.
In recent times, an example of highly inventive concept in software development is microservices and it has already taken the world by storm. Highly complex and super interactive applications are being built using this new software architecture style. In this style, a large complex application is built as a suite of modular services, each being a small, independent process specific to a business goal and communicating with one another using a simple, well-defined interface. Such a design framework has opened the gates for building highly scalable, concurrent applications suited to a highly distributed, asynchronous computing world of our times.
The principle of microservices are supported by languages such as Erlang; PaaS tools such as as AWS’s Lambda or Microsoft Azure’s Service Fabric; open source MQTT messaging framework and the Seneca microservice toolkit for Node.js. In fact, there is a long list of modern software, systems language, cross-platform tools and frameworks – giving wings to software developers’ imagination. Few examples include:
-
Google’s Go is a modern systems language with features supporting concurrency and parallel computation thus helping developers to leverage current processor architectures as well as distributed computing models.
-
Node.js is an example of modern software offering a switching engine, with deep support for REST and JSON APIs. It also offers a cross-platform environment and supports most common operating systems.
-
Apache’s Cordova is a hybrid HTML environment that uses a runtime to deliver near-native performance.
-
The iOS and Java tooling built into Microsoft’s Visual Studio makes it easier to manage code in a single environment and a single project.
-
Jenkins is a tool that automates build and test processes.
-
Container technologies such as Docker work well with thinner, more focused server OSes to reduce the risk involved in delivering isolated units of an application and deploying them quickly onto physical and virtual servers.
Reputed software development companies in Lebanon are using robust design languages to meet the needs of their clients.
The technologies are continuously evolving to offer smarter and innovative choices to developers. Added to it is the explosion in development tools and services that has made programming easier and faster like never before. There is no denial to the fact that we are living in the golden age of software development.