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Learn the essentials of software development
Software ate the world. Not long after Marc Andreessen famously stated “software is eating the world” in 2011, did it consume the world. In today’s digital economy, every company is software-intensive. Amazon may be the world’s largest retailer, but it isn’t a retail company – it’s a software company, proclaimed former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. “Our business is not what’s in the brown boxes,” he said. “It’s the software that sends the brown boxes on their way.”
What is software development?
Software development refers to the design, documentation, programming, testing, and ongoing maintenance of a software deliverable. The combination of these steps are used to create a workflow pipeline, a sequence of steps that when followed produce high-quality software deliverables. This pipeline is known as the software development lifecycle.
While there are many nuances, the software development lifecycle generally includes common elements, as noted below.
Discover
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Plan
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Build and Test
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Deploy
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Operate
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Observe
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Practices throughout the software development lifecycle
Continuous feedback
Teams should evaluate each release and generate reports to improve future releases, ask for customers to give input about the value and impact of product features, and share business-related outcomes with stakeholders. By gathering continuous feedback, teams can improve their processes, and increase value to customers.
Security
As software applications grow in complexity and scale, traditional Q&A and security that is “bolted on” at the end of a release cycle are no longer enough to keep software safe. Instead, testing should be included throughout the software development lifecycle in order to minimize bugs in software code.
Key features of effective software development
Agile
Agile is an iterative approach to project management and software development that helps teams deliver value to their customers faster and with fewer headaches. Agile methodologies are immensely popular in the software industry since they empower teams to be inherently flexible, well-organized, and capable of responding to change.
DevOps
DevOps is a set of practices, tools, and a cultural philosophy that automate and integrate the processes between software development and IT teams. It emphasizes team empowerment, cross-team communication and collaboration, and technology automation.
Continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD)
Continuous integration is the practice of automating the integration of code changes into a software project. It allows developers to frequently merge code changes into a central repository where builds and tests are executed. Continuous delivery expands upon continuous integration by automatically deploying code changes to a testing/production environment. It follows a continuous delivery pipeline, where automated builds, tests, and deployments are orchestrated as one release workflow.
Continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD)
A microservices architecture, also simply known as “microservices”, is an approach to building an application as a series of independently deployable services that are decentralized and autonomously developed. These services are loosely coupled, independently deployable, and easily maintainable. With a microservices architecture, developers can organize in smaller teams specializing in different services, with different stacks and decoupled deployments
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