Name
LIVE: 2025 Will Be the Year of the Fragile App
Date & Time
Tuesday, January 14, 2025, 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Description

Single points of failure were supposed to be a thing of the past. Application resiliency is now a primary design point, not just in the application architecture (12-factor coding, microservices, cloud-native development) and the infrastructure (containers, platform engineering, infrastructure as code). It is integrated into the culture and processes too: DevOps, DevSecOps, CI/CD.

But developers, application managers, CTOs and (let’s not forget) users are too often gritting their teeth in fearful anticipation of a release, an update, or just some random global event taking their app down.

We think this issue will reach its peak this year. Not because of the rapid evolution of platforms, recoding and replatforming tools, and lifecycle management paradigms, but because awareness of risks to application availability, dependency and performance will come to a head.

Leaders are taking the red pill and choosing reality instead of hopes and dreams because they are beginning to deeply understand how much software IS their organization, not merely its tool. They have noticed and begun to demand answers for hosting environments that are supposed to “just work” but don’t, pipelines that have been broken or breached, edge devices that have polluted the data stream, and of course, systems that have been taken down by cyberattacks or malformed software updates.

The development and platform communities will be abuzz this year about the Fragile App and what to do about it.

In this session, Futurum analyst Guy Currier will be joined by Techstrong managing editor Amanda Razani and platforms expert Hope Lynch to discuss this emerging trend, what is driving it, and what the market can do about it. And maybe, just maybe, how AI can save the day.

Guy Currier Amanda Razani Hope Lynch