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Challenges for developers

Through our experiences we've had startups, enterprises and the open source developer community repeatedly tell us they are increasingly coming under pressure; tasked to release business solutions in a shorter amount of time due to the huge growth in demand for always-on, global online services. This is happening in concert with a once-in-a-generation platform and architecture shift to cloud and distributed, microservices-based architectures. Developers are required to learn new technologies as they build apps that handle more load and serve more users than ever. With these new architectures, emerging best practices and myriad of tools available for developers comes additional complexity and steep learning curves.

Today every company must have their services secure and reliable by default. Meanwhile, developers who need to write apps that span multiple clouds or cloud and edge are faced with additional challenges, needing to maintain and tame multiple codebases while taking dependencies on many SDKs and open source libraries. All of this adds complexity and increases security concerns. Developers are seeing an exponential increase in the amount of code, more pressure to release and code breaking due to dependencies.

Add to the mix a global pandemic that disrupted our way of living, working and doing business, and it becomes clear that developers are facing great challenges.

Learn more by listening to our episode on the Open Source Startup Podcast, Making Distributed Systems More Accessible with Diagrid.