Software Engineering Insights

 DevOps represents a shift in IT culture. With adoption of agile and lean practices, the software development approach ensures rapid IT service delivery.

Entrepreneurs are vigorously capitalizing on the ‘Uber for X’ model. They are covering almost every vertical that holds the potential to reinvent the conventional way of doing things or simplify consumers lives.

The idea of matching consumer demand with relevant services, which started back in 2009 with a taxi-booking app called Uber is creating a ripple-effect now. The trend of creating an Uber for X is taking (almost) every industry by storm, and logistics is not behind.

Around half of the world’s urban population lives on unnamed or unmarked streets and houses, most of which is from developing or underdeveloped countries. -estimates World Bank.

 On-demand ride-sharing, wherein apps and digital services are used to organize a taxi or vehicle sharing is marking the growth of the connected mobility sector. By 2020, around 685 million people are predicted to use ridesharing services, worldwide (Statista).

The global on-demand transportation market is expected to reach $290.3 billion by 2025. -Grand View Research, Inc.

Thanks to the proliferation of mobile devices and applications, there has been rising adoption of on-demand transportation, globally. Services such as e-hailing, car sharing, car rental, station-based mobility are offering a productive space for the transport industry to thrive.

Hundreds of technologies debut every year to transform the conventional way doing things. While some of them run down, there are some that hold the potential to cause disruption and become a trend.

Ever since their introduction, Blockchain and cryptocurrency go hand-in-hand. The Blockchain concept is complex, and involves an ever-growing database of records, saved in blocks that are linked to each other and are cryptographically secured.

“21% of users abandon an app after one use and the fact that 1 in 5 users won’t come back to an app after one session is alarming.”-Localytics

Back in 1930s, 40% of the doctor-patient meetings were done through house calls. This was the general practice, wherein a doctor or a professional used to visit the patient’s place, following a consultation request from them. By 1980s, this was reduced to 0.6% as the advancing technology and specialization was not reachable to patients out of clinical/hospital premises.