2023 holds plenty of excitement and innovation for the tech world. With the continual adoption of technology solutions that boost efficiency and improve service delivery, companies are gearing up for significant changes that will redefine their operations. Digital Transformation, Cloud Native, Service Mesh, and open source are among the key areas to watch.
A Renaissance in Digital Transformation, Backed by Microservices
The last couple of years, punctuated by the global pandemic, have necessitated the fast-tracking of digital transformation. Established brands have now turned the tables on disruptive startups by embracing digital transformation to gain a competitive edge in the rapidly changing economy.
The key to a successful digital transformation is a digital-first strategy. This strategy entails a comprehensive digital orientation from the technology aspect of a company for seamless interconnectivity. As such, this digital intelligence is set for further growth with the mainstream adoption of microservices. Recent research indicates that 85% of companies are improving their applications with a microservices architecture.
Microservices are revolutionizing application development by amalgamating service-oriented architecture (SOA), containerization, and DevOps. In the year to unfold, microservices will play a critical role in organizations that are set on digital transformation.
The Evolution of Service Mesh: The Onset of Cloud-native 2.0
With the growing familiarity with Kubernetes and microservices, companies are increasing the autonomy of their development teams. This transformation leads to more clusters and subsequently the need to manage the expanded infrastructure.
Customers now demand more flexibility from their service mesh, and advanced capabilities of the service mesh are instrumental in managing the sprawling infrastructure. Features like Istio Ambient Mesh are handy in providing the required flexibility and ease of adoption.
Observability, in a distributed environment, continues to be a top priority in 2023. Managing observability at layers 4 and 7 is still evolving and will remain invaluable for IT enterprise organizations.
Reign of Kubernetes as the Ultimate Platform for Building Platforms
The adoption of Kubernetes is on a steady rise, with nearly two-thirds of companies using it in production, according to a survey report by Solo.io. The significant role of service meshes in providing high-level security for applications and networks will facilitate Kubernetes’s adoption.
Leveraging service mesh technologies, companies can safeguard their technologies infrastructure to meet zero-trust mandates. The use of microservices and containerized applications escalates the risk of breaches or hacks.
The service mesh infrastructure layer protects companies that deploy microservices by merging security and operations. It mitigates service impersonation, unauthorized access, and data exfiltration attacks while managing encryption, authentication, authorization, policy control, and configuration.
Open Source: A Return to Its Roots
With more enterprise mainstream than ever, open source is set for a reckoning in 2023. As the community continues to face commercial friction, more proponents will demand a return to its roots: community and contribution.
The push for collaborative efforts for projects will foster innovation in open source. For instance, a collaboration between Google and Solo on the Ambient Mesh project expedited and strengthened the contribution by combining resources.
In summary, the upcoming year in the tech world promises significant strides towards digital transformation, the adoption of Kubernetes, and evolving service mesh. Open source will also be at the center of developments, creating more room for innovation through collaborative efforts.
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