Top DevOps trends in 2022

This decade continues to witness further development in technology, as innovation transforms industries such as insurance, banking, and healthcare. It is crucial to look beyond seeking operational efficiency and decreasing cost — particularly as customer expectations, regulatory requirements and business landscapes are rapidly evolving. Here are the top DevOps trends in 2022.

Serverless computing

Serverless computing is an emerging trend that’s actually been around for more than a decade. It’s taken a while for enterprises to buy into the serverless framework, mostly because of fear: fear around industry support and fear about the return on investment. However, serverless comes with many advantages that are becoming increasingly difficult to ignore.

The two biggest benefits of serverless computing are efficiency and reliability. Without the burden of infrastructure management, enterprises can focus their resources on bigger priorities. Plus, serverless relieves the risk of potential maintenance issues that can occur with traditional frameworks.

Microservices architecture

When implemented successfully, microservices also offer enterprises better scalability and agility than monolithic applications. Developers can scale each segmented service according to the business’s needs rather than trying to scale an entire application at once. Additionally, if something goes wrong, microservices make it easy to contain the problem without disrupting the whole application.

As serverless computing gains momentum in 2022, so will microservices. However, it’s worth noting that microservices growth will be slower among smaller companies.

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Technologies like AI and ML have existed for some time, but only now have they started maturing from their perception of “interesting” to “organizationally effective.” Artificial intelligence and machine learning are digital transformation catalysts, and some of the capabilities that fall under this technology include pattern recognition, natural language processing and sentiment analysis. Artificial intelligence has become increasingly important because it provides companies with a competitive edge, is cost-effective and allows them to future-proof themselves. 

Low-code

The majority of development environments are expected to adopt low-code software by the end of 2022. Low-code tools are somewhat controversial in the DevOps community, but they’ve proven to be an asset to developers’ productivity.

The productivity boost is what will cause more developers to lean into the low-code trend in 2022. Low-code solutions will allow developers to focus on the bigger picture, whether it’s DevSecOps, Kubernetes, microservices, or serverless computing.

Gartner forecasts that low code application platforms will be responsible for 65% of application development activity by 2024. Organizations are rapidly leveraging low code to cater to the growing needs of the digital-first customers, deliver mission-critical and enterprise-grade applications quickly and respond rapidly to unforeseen scenarios.

Predictive Analytics

In this digital-savvy environment, it has become crucial for organizations to employ tools like predictive analytics.  An advanced form of data analytics, it’s used to extract information and predict trends, behavior and activities with precision. It is increasingly being introduced across industries as it optimizes productivity, helps understand customers better, identifies revenue opportunities and areas of attrition. Financial institutions have already begun to deploy predictive analytics, helping them customize the product offerings, detect fraud and identify new opportunities for cross-selling.

Intelligent Process Automation

Another technology trend that has paved its path in the digital world is intelligent process automation (IPA). IPA is a group of technologies that work together to organize and digitize the end-to-end business processes and the customer journey. The key drivers of IPA are the need for continuous improvement, retaining data consistency and bridging existing silos. The technology offers several benefits to an organization, such as reducing error rates, unifying operations, and accelerating processes, but more importantly, assisting in streamlining employee and customer-facing journeys.

Robotic Process Automation

Robotic process automation is rapidly becoming an integral cog in the wheel of the end-to-end digital journey of organizations. RPA can be the last mile of process automation — or in between — but is key to streamlining and optimizing customer-facing and back-office tasks. The use of bots helps automate repetitive tasks and liberate knowledge workers to focus on other value-added tasks.  The capabilities of RPA offer several benefits, including faster turnaround times, process optimization, sustaining consistency and increasing employee productivity.

DevSecOps

Security is becoming another rising concern in the DevOps sector, and it’s easy to understand why. As cloud computing becomes more readily accessible, new security threats seem to be around every corner. That’s why DevSecOps is becoming a bigger part of many companies’ org charts.

Technologies like low code platforms, advanced analytics, ML and AI are already being implemented by some organizations to stay ahead of the competition. Ensure your enterprise starts tapping into these technology trends to thrive in the next normal contacting Southlights' DevOps teams by clicking on the button below.