This is part 1 in a series of presentations I will be doing. This series is about 7 ground breaking changes that have happened in the IT world - changes that will affect how IT professionals will develop and deploy applications.

1. Developed and presented by:Ibrahim Muhammadi (Founder - Appworx.cc)
7 modern trends every IT professional must know about (Part 1/7)
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2. This presentation is part 1 in a series of 7 such
presentations. The series is aimed at discussing 7 modern
trends that every IT pro should know about. In this part we
will discuss trend #1.
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3. This series is aimed to create awareness about
important concepts that are changing the
development landscape - not to teach them in detail.
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4. Knowledge about these concepts is likely to affect
your chances of getting hired in the coming
months - so learn it now.
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5. Trend # 1 - APIs & Microservices
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6. Application architecture is changing rapidly and you
need to understand them because these changes are
structural and are going to affect everybody in the
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7. The changes in architecture are due to 2 major revolutionary
concepts - APIs and Microservices. Both are very different
concepts but both affect the way modern applications are
built.
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8. Earlier to APIs there was no easy way for the outside world
to communicate with an application other than via the
visual interface provided by the developers. This has
changed!
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9. Now other developers and applications can interact
with applications that have exposed APIs and can even
share data via these APIs
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10. APIs are customer facing, customizable software
interfaces that enable software components to
effectively communicate.
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11. APIs bring a new level of connectivity and data sharing
to multiple applications, regardless of their platforms,
data structures and underlying technologies.
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12. Microservices.cc: psd - https://www.flickr.com/photos/45581782@N00

13. Microservices are a new type of software architecture
which is the opposite of a monolithic architecture that
most applications are developed as.
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14. It is a particular way of designing software applications
as suites of independently deployable services instead
of one monolithic application.
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15. Microservices are independently-created and
independently-maintained components that
communicate with one another through interfaces —
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16. Microservices are not interfaces like APIs - but
they may use APIs for communication
between components.
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17. Microservices differ from traditional software development
using components and libraries mainly because
microservices are independently deployable whereas
libraries are not.
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18. That means no re-deloyment of the entire
application if just one of the services need
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19. More and more companies are switching to this new way of
structuring their applications and IT professionals need to
adapt themselves to this new way of application
development.
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20. If you have any questions regarding APIs or
microservices you can ask me via
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21. See you in part 2/7 soon to discuss
another ground-breaking trend.
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