7 Trends That Helped Shape Software Development In 2024
ITProToday, Monday, December 9th, 2024
From widespread developer layoffs to the mainstreaming of AI-assisted coding and the rise of platform engineering, 2024 reshaped software development in unexpected ways.
A year ago, ITPro Today predicted that key software development trends in 2024 would include developments like growing software security issues, a job market that no longer favored developers, and the irrelevance of blockchain development skills.
We're proud to say that those have indeed been important trends over the past year. That said, there were some other important developments, including in the realms of AI and platform engineering, that we missed when trying to predict the future of software development a year ago.