FINAL WORD
WHEN ASKED ABOUT
HIRING PRIORITIES,
27% OF RESPONDENTS
WHO ARE ON THE
LOOKOUT FOR MOBILE
DEVELOPMENT RESOURCE
REPORTED THAT THEY
WERE PLANNING TO HIRE
PEOPLE WITH BACK-END
INTEGRATION SKILLS.
microservices approach has demonstrated
its value, from both an agility and a
performance perspective. Node.js+Express
has become a de-facto technology stack for
implementing these services and thrives in a
polyglot environment. Whilst microservices
communicate between themselves using
RESTful APIs and lightweight messaging,
they also provide modern wrappers for
legacy enterprise systems.
A microservices approach has the
advantage of allowing app components
to be rapidly developed, deployed,
updated, and retired, to suit the
needs of customers and employees.
A variety of development teams can
easily collaborate on building these
autonomous services to serve specific
business requirements, while enterprise
IT teams focus on managing sensitive
data, applications and systems in the
back-end.
Agile
In contrast to waterfall methods, which
have traditionally characterized enterprise
software application development, agile
approaches involve shorter, more iterative
development cycles that elicit early and
continuous feedback across the app
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development lifecycle. This happens
to go hand-in-hand with the mobile
ethos of “build fast, build repeatedly.”
As organisations try to build an app,
deploy it, test it, and iterate on it, they
are transitioning from waterfall towards
agile approaches. However, it’s a journey
and not all companies have reached the
point of true agile development – but
they are getting there.
In moving towards this more agile
approach, organisations recognise
the need for greater collaboration
between people with different skills,
including input from the users, or the
business. Combined with continuous
development, deployment, monitoring
and measurement of mobile apps, this
collaborative approach has exciting
potential for app success. Apps are
constantly evolving, with elements
added and retire [