Latest Software Engineering Trends

Today the session is about the latest software engineering trends in industry which was conducted by the hSenid mobile company. Unfortunately, I missed the session since I had to attend to a technical exam on that day.
Nevertheless,  different trends come into the software engineering field from time to time.

One such latest trend is Artificial Intelligence. Today, most of the leading companies are moving towards AI to stay competitive with other businesses as well as to improve their business processes. If I am to simply describe what is AI, it is all about making machines intelligent. This technology enables machines to show cognitive functions like "learning" and "problem solving". Even Facebook, has recently announced their plan for moving towards AI. There are so many benefits a company could attain through this technology. Some of the well popular benefits are,

• virtual assistance
• generating insights on business and market 
• system automation

Another latest trend in the industry is AR and VR which stands for Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. Augmented Reality is supplementing a live, direct or indirect view of a physical, real-world environment by computer generated sensory inputs like sound, video, graphics, GPS etc.

Virtual Reality is referred to as immersive multimedia or computer simulated reality which replicates an environment that would simulate a physical presence in the real world or imagine world enabling the user to interact with that world. These technologies are heavily used in Gaming industry. Other applications are;

• Military applications such as virtual shooting, bombs disposal etc
• Healthcare sector to perform virtual surgeries for novice doctors and medical students
• Media and Telecommunication
• Cinema 
• In Engineering to make 3D models of buildings
• Fashion design
• Tourism and many more.

IoT which is also known as Internet of Things, is also a huge trend in the field nowadays. What is IoT? Simply we can say it is a network of physical devices embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators and network connectivity which enables these objects to connect and exchange data. Some of the applications which use this technology are;

• Intelligent shopping systems which could monitor customer's purchasing habits and track their mobile phones
• Home automation such as Smart Homes
• Energy management systems which could monitor heat, light, electricity etc.
• Smart wearables
• Smart supply chain
• Smart farming and many more

Nowadays, most of the businesses are moving to "Cloud", thus we can say, Cloud Computing is also another trending field in the industry. Cloud computing is all about running workloads over the internet remotely in a commercial provider's data center. Through this,

• people will be able to access data at anytime from anywhere in the world.
• can reduce the hardware cost greatly because the company does not have to spend money on buying fast computers with more memory space.
• organizations can get company-wide access to computer applications
• company could save money spent on maintenance of hardware.

These are some of the latest trends in the software engineering field. Staying current with the latest tech will help companies to gain lots of benefits in the long run. Not only for the companies, it is equally important for people in the software engineering field as well as people who are hoping to enter into this field.