Changes in SQL Database Management and Programming Trends
The technology industry is fast advancing, and the onlookers are finding it difficult to keep up with its accelerated pace. It is now very common that some top trending programming trends become obsolete in a year or two itself. Technologies are getting replaced by some new trends which ensure better development, stronger features, and wider capabilities.
Software development is a sector in which one should continually engage in order to learn new technologies and tactics. It is not only the technology, but the market demands are also changing at a fast pace. A development language or a stack of technical tools don’t have a very long life as such but gets reinvented ever once in a while with a new set of tools and features.
On looking at the programming sector, the changes in trends are largely driven by speed, efficiency, customization ability, and the ease to use. In this article, we will look into a few top trends in programming, which dominated in 2018 and continuing the same for 2019 too.
Changing trends
As 2019 has started now, the programming experts now expect many frameworks and languages are keeping dominance and also the new ones popping up this year. In this post, we will discuss a few top trends in programming.
Database space getting dominated by SQL
The dominance of SQL for the last couple of decades will continue in the database space. SQL is now used wide and far by the programmers of all categories. There is a wide array of technologies used in SQL database management in various ways, so for any developer and DBA, it is now impossible to think of smooth database functions without the use of SQL. Let’s explore some top expected trends in database administration.
- PaaS databases
As the new generation developers will continue to push their enterprise applications to the cloud, database too is considered by organizations as Platform as a Service basis, which will help them cost and infrastructure reduction. Nowadays, cloud services offer many customized packages in database administration, which makes things easier.
- Automation of DBMS
Another trend as described by RemoteDBA.com in DBMS is the need for automation of database management as in case of any other technology administration. Automation tools and techniques aimed at simplifying the patching, provisioning, maintenance, upgrade, and update of data and the project workflow.
- More focus on security
It is not new, but the focus on data security may reach to optimum in the coming days. Many stories about the database breaches including major US-based business giants point towards the increasing importance for the DBAs to work hard in the IT security aspects to upkeep data safety.
Programming trends
Remember, you don’t have to instantly rush to change any of your programming approach based on the discussed trends. The ideal move is to effectively dovetail the changes in a meaningful way to your existing projects. You may try learning additional skills or hiring more staff with expertise. Let’s explore the trends.
- Java to continue its dominance
As we have seen over the last few years, Java is expected to continue its dominance in the programming landscape. Existing for more than 20 years now, Java had gone far beyond than just being a simple programming language. About 7 billion devices across the globe are running Java, and there are about 9 million developers are out there building unique solutions on this platform.
As we know, the native Android applications are also built on Java, and this trend will continue. Java not only features simplicity and ease of use but also possess optimal readability and functionality. This is the reason why Netflix, Amazon, LinkedIn everyone loves to be on Java.
- PHP to rule web development
Next, to Java, we should also mention PHP, which may keep on ruling web development market. Usage of PHP will remain one of the top trends for this year too. As an open-source platform for web application development, PHP is powering a huge number of existing websites of our times. Apart from simplicity, PHP also boasts of its ability to work hand-in-hand with the CMSs and ensure platform diversity, scalability, and flexibility alike. PHP is powerful and can deliver unmatched performance too.
- Ruby on Rails expects a hype
We may also expect Ruby on Rails is becoming more popular this year. It is a full-fledged web development framework which is drafted on Ruby. The programming language picked momentum in 2016 and showing a steady increase in its popularity over the last couple of years. With the kind of capabilities, it’s showing lately, it is expected to one among the top-notch programming platforms in the coming years. It’s capable of handling accelerated web processes and also features ease of use, flexibility, customization, low-cost content management, etc. to make it more acceptable to developers.
- Spark vs. Hadoop
There are rumors about Spark replacing Hadoop very soon, but we may not tell it for sure. Spark exists as a unique file system for some time now and is used for processing both structured as well as non-structured data which is collectively called as Big Data. It can be found that Spark borrowed many of the top features of Hadoop and also possess a higher capability to Hadoop when it comes keeping and processing data in its faster memory. Some top programmers are already merging these two to leverage the speed of Spark along with the distributed file system of Hadoop.
- Node.js as developer favorite
We may also expect Node.js becoming the favorite of web developers in the coming days. It is primarily a JavaScript runtime which is built on the Chrome JavaScript V8 engine. Node.js uses some non-blocking, event-driven I/O model. Node.js is very lightweight and also consists of a huge open-source library. All these make Node.js the favorite of web developers and programmers. Node.js is increasingly gaining in popularity lately and also is expected to keep up with the expectations of web programming in future.
Along with these database and programming trends, we may expect many more developments also in line with the emerging technologies as IoT, Big Data, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, etc.
