Forte Spotlight: 2024 Tech Trends, Performance Test Readiness and More

As Forte Group's Chief Technology Officer, I am thrilled to share the latest advancements, innovations, and insights driving our commitment to technological excellence, empowering you to stay at the forefront of industry trends and developments.

-- Lucas Hendrich , Forte Group CTO

CTO Spotlight

In a rapidly changing landscape, staying on top of technology trends is a matter of strategic importance. As 2024 develops, technology will continue to shape and redefine the way we live, and work.

As a senior technology leader, understanding and embracing these trends can help you make informed decisions, stay competitive, and discover new paths to innovation.

From developments in artificial intelligence (AI), generative AI, and machine learning to optimization in cybersecurity and cloud investment, 2024 will bring both new developments and new challenges.

During the first few months of the year, I've discussed 2024 tech trends with experts at Forte Group and with industry connections and peers. From these discussions we created a shortlist of five items:

1. Enabling and operationalizing AI through data engineering and governance
2. Next generation reference architecture for healthcare, financial services, and media
3. Rightsizing the cybersecurity investment
4. Cloud cost optimization
5. Evolving distributed talent and the new workday

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Technology Spotlight

You can improve the chances of performance testing success by doing the upfront work in a consistent and comprehensive manner. Like the quote, “Fail to plan, plan to fail”, it’s better to take time to properly plan and in the process, identify gaps that would impede effective performance testing.

You don’t want to assemble a large technical team to participate in test execution only to see them fail due to poor fundamentals in the preparation process. You can set yourself up for success by following a documented process combined with a performance readiness checklist well before executing a test.

Performance testing is a complex discipline that spans multiple functions within the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Performance engineers require a set of skills that are built over many years of learning and practical experience with various techniques and tools.

I created a simple framework for performance test readiness. The framework is built on three components:

1. People
2. Process
3. Technology

Read the details in my blog post, Performance Test Readiness: How to Go from "Ready, Set, No" to "Ready, Set, Go"

-- Joe Cohen , Director of Performance Engineering at Forte Group

Industry Spotlight

In an article for InfoWorld, Seetharam Param , VP and general manager of release orchestration at CloudBees shared thoughts on how software engineering will evolve in 2024. Param writes:

"From artificial intelligence (AI) and digital twin technologies, to platform engineering rooted in devops principles, to chaos engineering techniques that enhance resilience, to the expanded use of internal developer portals that boost productivity, innovations are combining to revolutionize every facet of software engineering."

Trends that Param expects to see this year:

• AI and digital twins automate devops
• Platform engineering lifts developer productivity
• Chaos engineering integrates with CI/CD

Read the article, "How software engineering will evolve in 2024."

Thanks for reading – let me know what you thought of this month's issue. See you again next month.

-- Lucas Hendrich, CTO, Forte Group