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Technology Predictions on AI, DevOps and Security
Based on conversations with colleagues, customers, partners and other industry experts, here are the three technology predictions for the coming year from Postman.
Abhijit Kane, Co-Founder
People’s assumptions about AI are going to evolve in the coming year. The expectation for AI to simply provide information that impresses is going to expand into an expectation that AI “acts” on that information on a user’s behalf. This will need AI to be baked into real-world product interactions in ways that are almost transparent to users. In addition, APIs will play an increasing role in the growth of AI. They will grow into the de-facto mechanism that AI agents use to increase their access to the world – both to integrate data from myriad sources, and to operate on the world around them.
Jean Yang, Head of Product, Observability
Businesses across all industries will realize the foundation to software development is built upon the “99% Developers.” These are the vast majority of developers who are getting work done outside of the hip companies and frameworks, who often get neglected in conversations about “what developers want.”
There’s a huge gap between what “developer influencers” are talking about, and the daily reality of most developers. It matters to talk about the 99% Developers because these are the developers building the software that powers our lives – insurance, health care, retail, and banking, to name a few. It’s not only small companies that can’t easily adopt the processes of modern, tech-first companies; it’s most companies that were not built around technology and that have decades of embedded legacy software.
The most astute tech leaders will see that recognizing the needs of their 99% Developers are the key to continued business success.
Joshua Scott, Head of Security and IT
There is a problem with API sprawl that will become worse in 2024: the rise of Zombie APIs within enterprise organizations, and the security threat these troublesome APIs pose. Zombie APIs are endpoints that are no longer maintained yet are still active. They may be unused endpoints, old features never officially deprecated, or forgotten development or testing environments. And as infrastructures scale larger and add complexity, API sprawl worsens. Zombie APIs are a type of technical debt that could pose a legitimate threat if left to rot.
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