Software Engineering Insights

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world, most of the businesses were unprepared to deal with its consequences. The unexpected shift made them think of ideas that can help them sustain themselves in the competitive market and retain their customers.

Learning is defined as the adaptive intelligent change in response to experience. In humans, it refers to the continuous process of acquiring new skills, values, knowledge, attitude, and preferences based on past experiences. This lifelong exercise in humans is called cognitive learning.

Cloud computing has enabled primary stakeholders in software development to deploy a broad set of resources and services for on-demand usage. Based on scalability, cost, performance, efficiency, and security these stakeholders can choose from a variety of deployment models for making these resources available over the cloud.

Smart homes, wearables, automated cars are some of the popular concepts that introduced the world with the IoT technology and its potential applications. The continued growth of this technology and its use case realization has created a global IoT market of $389 billion, which is forecasted to reach $1 trillion in 2030 (according to Statista). 

Technological advancements and innovations are helping organizations to cope up with the disruption caused by the outbreak of the global pandemic. The IoT industry is no exception.

What is IoT? The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to a network of digital devices over the internet that use embedded sensors to transmit user data between them and the cloud. More popularly known for their application in "smart homes", the purpose of these interconnected systems is to make life easier with devices that communicate independently and respond to human stimuli.

The accelerated adoption of digital solutions in the healthcare industry has resulted in satisfaction, accessibility, and cost-effectiveness in the care system. PHI maintenance over the care continuum, improved patient engagement, streamlined administrative operations, better claim management, early disease diagnosis are some of the advantages that healthcare digitization brings along. 

For more than a decade now, DevOps has been bringing the development and IT teams together to release better software, faster. Despite its relative maturity, this practice still confronts roadblocks that hinder its progress.

The popularity of AI's potential to transform the way industries function has grown immensely in the social media sphere as well. It has grown to become an integral component of social media giants such as Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. These companies are availing the various benefits of AI like enhanced security, better customer engagement, and in-depth analytics.

Machines have historically aided humans to maneuver several challenging tasks all through the dark ages and the industrial revolution. A decade after the Enigma machine helped the Allies win World War II,  its inventor Alan Turing posed the one question that expanded our horizons for innovation - Can machines think?