Could this be the beginning of something new?
A New way of looking at things?
One thing for certain is the future of technology is dynamic and changeable. In our very hands, the only thing that hinders it is the motivation for the technology to be created, to be used!
The key lesson from all these trends is we’re entering an era of continual and rapid evolution, where multiple tech trends combine and feed into each other to deliver huge changes. For businesses, this means the days of incremental tech upgrades are gone forever. Continual change is the way of the future.
We are currently witnessing unprecedented rates of innovation across many industries, and experts predict that the ways that we work, communicate, and travel will radically transform over the next 15 to 20 years. Paradigm shifts always entail challenges, but it’s important to remember that they also bring an abundance of opportunity.
Moreover, technology is not a static concept. It is always evolving, dynamic, and volatile. This is bringing about a paradigm shift in the way we think, act, buy, and make a decision. BE it genomics and advanced DNA for spousal choices or autonomous vehicles, the world is fast embracing digital. If you too want in on this high impact sphere of technology then the first step would be to know the different trends that will propel the digital transformation pace in 2002 and beyond. Read on to know what these trends are
Companies need to embrace change.
Those companies that don’t change can stagnate and not develop. We can see case studies ranging from large companies such as Kodak not adhering to this and facing the consequences. Our current world is constantly evolving in terms of technology and many other challenging but innovative ways. Having the ability to face these new challenges head-on will not only develop the company as a whole but also those who work within it.
Today’s younger workers have no qualms in changing jobs if their expectations are not met. Future generations are going to need to adapt to persistent new technologies and have developed a mindset that embraces autonomy, purpose and motivation. Employee’s value growing their skills and building career currency through experiences, rather than climbing the corporate ladder.
Executives must be able to play the long game because what we’re talking about is not simple. In some cases, there’s significant cost to making the type of change we’re talking about. But the long-term payback is ensuring that your organisation has the technological capabilities to be competitive.
Technology will continue to drive the future.
It is clear that technology is coming up in a big way to drive customer experience. If you are not taking initiatives for digital transformation then you are bound to be outpaced by forwarding looking enterprises with a focus on stellar customer experiences.
It’s easy to focus on the fear or to think of technology as the enemy. But this kind of mindset is the quickest path to becoming obsolete. To remain relevant in this digital world, we have to embrace technology solutions and be open to change. To future-proof your career, you need to prepare yourself for a changing, technology-dependent workforce.
Future-proof your company with Serverless technology.
As technology is exponentially growing and bringing new challenges for maintaining the dependencies, Serverless will become a great solution. Although this technology is new, it will be more and more crucial in the coming decades.
Serverless is a very promising solution for edge applications as it allows to perform tasks on-site instead of a inside a core network (Virtual or Physical), it is usually cheap and light and speed up transactions while lowering operating costs by only the required resources. For example, some operations like verifying a signature, hashing data, or even performing a simple media transformation require faster response times and do not necessarily require a lot of computing power; they can therefore be run on Content Delivery Networks where some of the data is replicated.
Serverless architecture provides a way to keep the business focused on itself and its own core application. and therefor, you don’t have to worry about having an entire team of infrastructure engineers, platform engineers, admins, etc. The application team could be strictly in charge of that since the hosts handle everything else.
Use software as a service to save time and money.
Although, there can be a paradigm shift to get there, the journey might not be a simple lift and shift. For example, if you have certain customisied workloads that you require from an infrastructure level, you may have to re-engineer your solution to enable to function to be ported across. A classic example of this will always be older technology adopted that cannot be ported to the virtual and unstable world of the Cloud and requires a whole Operating System underlying to function.
Saying that, if you have a versatile workload that is movable you can gain a lot from this paradigm. You may be able to evaluate the older technology and use, Software as a service, another company that is providing the technology in a Cloud based way that you can consume.
Integrate DevOps and security operations to improve efficiency and safety.
As you integrate security into your DevOps pipeline, remember that people are still your greatest asset. In the traditional waterfall model, the development, security, and operations teams are siloed. As you move into the DevOps world, teams may still operate that way for a while; breaking down those traditional barriers can be the first and most important catalyst to your DevSecOps journey. Try to identify and remedy those silos quickly, create shared goals within DevSecOps teams, and drive a culture of innovation that consists of openness, transparency, ownership, and accountability. While the human resource hierarchy may remain separated, the development culture should be product-based and therefore lead by product teams. Each responsible party (dev, sec, ops) owns a portion of the product success.
If your company already does DevOps, then it’s a good idea to consider shifting toward DevSecOps. At its core, DevSecOps is based on the principle of DevOps, which will help your case for making the switch. And doing so will enable you to bring together proficient individuals from across different technical disciplines to enhance your existing security processes.
Unlike in collaborations between development and security, complexities arise when bringing together ops and security. In the former pair, you simply have to teach your developers about security best practices and have them work closely with your security team. Although this arrangement does change some things for developers, usually not many significant changes are found.
Wrap Up
Albeit the above is just fluffy principles (for now) in future threads of this blog we can begin to start to look towards how the small elements that build up a company from the ground up can be harnessed in greater detail and maybe with some case study material if time permits.