2021 Retrospective

Which the year is near its end I would like to take the opportunity to do a retrospective of the top 3 tech trends at GESHDO during 2021 to see what we want to bring with us into 2022.

Let us jump right into it.

1. Green Cloud Computing

A big trend for the year has been that the cloud providers have started to release numbers of the carbon emissions for the different services they offer.

The numbers were not a big surprise since we already worked under the assumption that cheap and managed is less damaging to the environment than expensive and dedicated.
Since we have been using a cloud-native and serverless-first approach for a couple of years now, the new numbers did not change the way we work, but it's good to get some kind of receipt that our tech choices already aligns with what is best for the environment. During 2022 we expect more providers to release carbon emission data for different services. We hope that it can really push developers and architects to design IT systems that runs as efficient as possible.

Our world deserve that.

2. Hybrid Rendering Frameworks

For a couple of years I have been big fans of using static site generators, such as Hugo to build websites. What we have found out during the year is that there are situations when server-side rendered apps would be a better choice and with progress made on the serverless platforms regarding cold starts and other features we have started to explore hybrid frameworks, such as Next.js.

We will not switch everything over to a hybrid model, but it's always a strength to have another tool in the toolbox when needed to solve our customers problems.

3. True DevOps

This is a quite sensitive heading for my part since I think the word DevOps is the most abused and misused IT word that exists apart from Agile (I'm looking at you SAFe), but what I also can see, is that GESHDO has found a balance between the two camps, dev and ops. A project needs both parts and while unicorns (people that understand both parts in depth) exists and can produce both code and a secure and reliable environment to run the code in, it is not something that can be achieved on every team and customer. Enter our hybrid teams, with both developers and cloud engineers working together. Everyone owns and take responsibility for their specialty of the project, but they still work together as a unit. No more throwing code over the fence and let the ops figure out if this is something that can be deployed in a secure and maintainable way, and no more expectations that each person in the team should do and know two jobs to the cost of one salary.

This is what true DevOps means to us and during 2021 we have and a couple of customer projects where we have had the possibility to prove that the formula works. We are looking forward to 2022 to continue to explore how the perfect project setup looks like and how we can optimize our output for better customer value.

Summary

These are the three big things that we want to take with us from 2021 and implement even better in 2022. Apart from what we bring with us from the current year, I'm also looking forward to finally break some ground in the blockchain space and hopefully GESHDO can deliver its own take on that during next year.

Happy new year, glorious future ahead!