Oversupply in the IT industry? The "burden reduction route" helps you become a popular development that everyone wants

Developer’s IT skills: Good and bad are mixed, and excellent software developers are often hard to find when recruiting. Reports from a number of authoritative organizations including the National Bureau of Statistics suggest that under the wave of digital transformation, the market’s demand for software developers has far exceeded the number of existing developer groups, and it’s important to master mobile programming languages ( This is especially true for developers with skills such as Kotlin, Swift, etc.), DevOps, and UI/UX.

In fact, when hiring developers, companies not only need to understand whether the developers are strong in coding, but also have an increasing demand for soft skills and business process expertise. Because, as the degree of integration of software and business is getting higher and higher, business managers need developers with self-driven, good communication and teamwork skills to help companies reduce the gap between program development teams and business teams that need programs. Technology gap. Obviously, this is not covered by computer or software engineering courses in universities. This problem is not limited to China. According to a survey by the Career Advisory Board, only 11% of American business owners believe that higher education is "very effective" in preparing graduates for their business needs. Professional skills.

The concept that came into being: "low code";

About five years ago, when you think of software developers, everyone must think of "programmers." Letting programmers write code is the only way to build an application. But in recent years, low code is entering our field of vision as a model-driven application development platform. In order to distinguish it from the PaaS (Platform as a Service) developed by writing code, some experts also refer to low-code as a "high-productivity application platform as a service." High productivity reveals the core advantage of low code: this type of platform gives developers a new way to drag and drop components to a graphical design interface to quickly build and deploy cloud applications. After years of development, low-code head products have also enabled enterprises to quickly deliver an excellent application in the following five ways.

As a technology provider serving programmers in the coding development era, Grape City, which has been focusing on the development of controls for more than 40 years, launched a movable type enterprise-level low-code development platform in 2016. Different from most low-code manufacturers, movable type grid provides more professional choices for low-code users, further expanding the application field of low-code. Let's take the movable type as an example to understand how low-code technology can help companies solve the shortage of developers.

Developer ≠ Coder

Unlike traditional coding methods, most of the development work of low-code platforms is visualized, that is, users rely on the user to select the required components from the component library, and drag the components onto the graphical design interface. The lower technical threshold allows the development team to be composed of coders and non-coders who are familiar with business processes. This will not only broaden the recruitment market, but also mix the professional skills, business logic, and soft skills of different personnel to develop applications that meet business needs more quickly.

Develop applications faster while reducing backlog during development

Today's low-code development platform has developed into a visual tool set covering the entire life cycle of software development. In addition to visual development, visual project management (such as movable type grid provides Git-compatible branch and version management), visual release and operation and maintenance And so on, further enhancing the productivity advantage of low code. In data management application scenarios such as ERP with a high percentage of "addition, deletion, modification, and check", the development efficiency of low code can even reach 10 times that of writing code!

For enterprises, with a low-code development platform, the development team can deliver more project applications to business departments every year, shortening the time to implement business processes, which allows enterprises to effectively reduce product backlogs without cutting recruitment budgets. Business transformation provides faster and more powerful information support.

Let core developers do core work

Since the demand for skilled software engineers is in short supply, low-code development is enough for visualization developers to build a large number of basic parts of the application. Professional software engineers can be liberated from daily development to complete tasks that really require their deep coding skills. For example, new junior technicians or business personnel can complete most of the work of the application, such as building PC and mobile pages, business processing logic limited to the current system, etc.; then professional coders will implement the system Integration, or the establishment of services such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. In order to make this model run more smoothly, the open low-code platform represented by movable type grid provides a plug-in mechanism that can be extended to the platform based on the programming interface, allowing professional engineers to build reusable components, and Add it to the component library of the low-code development platform to facilitate other developers to use and further improve productivity.

Promote collaboration in the right way

Traditional code development methods often fall into a dilemma: Although coders are the main developers of applications, they cannot fully understand the actual situation of business work. Of course, this may be due to the lack of a medium, a "language" that users, business personnel, and developers can use together (after all, only professional developers know how to write code). Then, due to the natural visualization and low threshold advantages of the low-code development platform, developers, business teams, and even end users can collaborate, share their progress and ideas, and iteratively come up with solutions that better meet actual business needs. .

Encourage efficient application construction

With the low-code platform, low-threshold, and high-efficiency development capabilities, companies can integrate the "civilian developers" within the company to expand their own development teams. The introduction of low code allows these non-professional developers to easily build enterprise-level applications. At the same time, with systematic training, enterprises can quickly realize digital transformation and get rid of the large and cumbersome Excel and loosely managed WeChat groups.

Summarize

As Grape City Software stated in its mission vision, "Developers are the creators of various software technologies and are the core force in the development of the software industry." How to maximize the capabilities of existing developers and how to quickly expand the team of developers is a common problem faced by the heads of software companies and CIOs who are interested in building information systems independently. The low-code platform provides companies with a new solution to cope with the shortage of development resources and speed up the delivery of enterprise-level applications. If your team is also facing the dual dilemma of backlog backlog and recruitment difficulties, you may wish to take the initiative to embrace low code and regain the initiative with more advanced technical solutions.

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