Top trends in custom software engineering in 2024

4 min readAug 26, 2024

This post is a quick overview of an Abto Software blog article.

In today’s fast-paced environment, information technology dictates day-to-day business operations.

Mature organizations that prioritize business continuity should research and integrate ever-emerging trends. Market expansion across industries, quickly changing customer demand, and many other factors are pushing forward-looking companies towards rethinking their strategies.

Artificial intelligence — a trend gaining momentum across domains

One trend worth mentioning, talking about up-to-date trends — artificial intelligence and its various techniques. Predictive analytics and maintenance, recommendation systems, sentiment analysis, personalization engines — the technology is revolutionizing everyday processes.

As stated by Forbes:

97% of business owners are confident that ChatGPT will benefit their workflows
56% of surveyed owners are leveraging artificial intelligence to optimize customer services

Artificial intelligence is applied to optimize data management, daily decision-making, and other critical aspects. And when handled professionally to resolve business-specific challenges — data availability, ethical concerns — the integration can bring considerable benefit.

Some projects to mention talking about Abto Software’s AI expertise:

Cloud technology — another trend that’s going to stay

Another trend continually enjoying pervasive adoption — cloud computing, actively integrated across segments. Secure storage, virtual desktops, data backup, disaster recovery, communication, collaboration, and more — cloud services are changing everything about data management.

As reported by Techopedia:

The global cloud computing market size was valued $546.1 billion in 2022
The public cloud services spending scale is said to grow by 21.7% in 2023, thus reaching $597.3 billion

Cloud computing is incorporated to harness data security, flexibility, scalability, and better resource allocation. And despite potential challenges — system downtime, performance and latency bottlenecks, data migration — the innovation can ensure competitive advantage.

Successful projects worth mentioning speaking about Abto Software’s cloud expertise:

Low-code and no-code platforms

Low-code and no-code development are approaches being implemented to replace manual methodologies. These incorporate visual interfaces, drag-and-drop functionality, pre-built components, workflow automation, and other modern-day capabilities.

The practices implemented within low-code and no-code development:

Visual development: drag-and-drop interfaces for building intuitive applications
Rapid prototyping: faster creation and iteration
Coding abstraction: coding tasks made simple
Coding automation: repeated workflows made straightforward
Pre-built components: reusable modules and templates
Efficient communication and collaboration: team-based creation and sharing

Sustainable technology

Sustainable development — another approach transforming design, software development, and deployment. Focused around data center energy efficiency, carbon footprints, and other environment-specific problems, this methodology introduces principles reshaping every project stage.

The practices implemented within sustainable development:

Software design: intuitive design, energy-efficient algorithms, modular architecture, code optimization
Software development & deployment: CI/CD, IaC, component containerization, serverless architecture
Data management: data minimization, efficient retrieval, data deduplication, archiving, purging
Third-party integrations: green partners, API efficiency, caching, batching, monitoring, optimization

Microservices architecture

Microservices architecture is also an approach gaining popularity where applications are broken into modules. In contrast to conventional monolithic architecture where applications are created using single, unified units, this approach is implemented to facilitate greater performance, flexibility, scalability, and maintenance.

When introducing microservices architecture, businesses leverage:

Improved flexibility by breaking down applications into services
Enhanced scalability by supporting individual scaling of services
Resource optimization by developing and deploying separate services
Easy maintenance by leveraging more manageable, individual services

Cybersecurity prioritization

In the modern world, more and more organizations are facing security threats that affect their performance. These comprise data breaches, malware, phishing, insider threats, identity theft, and other common threats that cause reputational and financial damage.

When implementing cybersecurity measures, businesses harness:

Artificial intelligence: predictive analytics and maintenance, fraud detection and prevention
Computer vision: image recognition, image classification, metadata extraction, video processing
Quantum computing: data encryption, secured protocols, advanced hashing, anomaly detection
Zero Trust: continuous verification, threat detection and response, and more

Summing up

Abto Software, Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, is your strategic partner to deliver enterprise-level products. Discovery phase, requirement documentation, design, engineering, quality assurance, product deployment — our engineers can cover every stage.

Our services:

In the fact-paced world of innovation, customer demand is an important factor to consider before investing.

Modern applications aren’t limited to delivering general-purpose functionality — forget about that forever. Increased efficiency and performance, flexibility, scalability, data-driven decision-making, greater security — these capabilities are the new standard.