4 Trends In 2017 That Every Developer Needs To Understand - InformationWeek

As a coding instructor and curriculum designer I spend a lot of time thinking about where the tech industry is headed, to prepare my students for that new world. Here are several trends I think will dominate software development in 2017. Increase in client-server hybrid systems. In 2017 we will see more software systems that blend local and cloud computing in a variety of different proportions. In traditional web programming, a browser connects to a backend server, which in turn does all the actual processing.