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With tech stacks becoming increasingly diverse and AI and automation continuing to take over everyday tasks and manual workflows, the tech industry at large is experiencing a heightened demand to support engineering teams. As a result, the developer experience is changing faster than organizations can consciously maintain.

We can no longer rely on DevOps practices or tooling alone — there is even greater power recognized in improving workflows, investing in infrastructure, and advocating for developers' needs. This nuanced approach brings developer experience to the forefront, where devs can begin to regain control over their software systems, teams, and processes.

We are happy to introduce DZone's first-ever Developer Experience Trend Report, which assesses where the developer experience stands today, including team productivity, process satisfaction, infrastructure, and platform engineering. Taking all perspectives, technologies, and methodologies into account, we share our research and industry experts' perspectives on what it means to effectively advocate for developers while simultaneously balancing quality and efficiency. Come along with us as we explore this exciting chapter in developer culture.

Over a decade ago, DZone welcomed the arrival of its first ever data-centric publication. Since then, the trends surrounding the data movement have held many titles  — big data, data science, advanced analytics, business intelligence, data analytics, and quite a few more. Despite its varying vernacular, the purpose has remained the same: to build intelligent, data-driven systems. The industry has come a long way from organizing unstructured data and driving cultural acceptance to adopting today's modern data pipelines and embracing business intelligence capabilities.

This year's Data Engineering Trend Report draws all former terminology, advancements, and discoveries into the larger picture, illustrating where we stand today along our unique, evolving data journeys. Within these pages, readers will find the keys to successfully build a foundation for fast and vast data intelligence across their organization. Our goal is for the contents of this report to help guide individual contributors and businesses alike as they strive for mastery of their data environments.

Security is everywhere: Behind every highly performant application, or even detected threat, there is a powerful security system and set of processes implemented. And in the off chance there are NOT such systems in place, that fact will quickly make itself known. We are living in an entirely new world, where bad actors are growing more and more sophisticated the moment we make ourselves "comfortable." So how do you remain hypervigilant in this ever so treacherous environment?

DZone's annual Enterprise Security Trend Report has you covered. The research and expert articles explore the fastest emerging techniques and nuances in the security space, diving into key topics like CSPM, full-stack security practices and challenges, SBOMs and DevSecOps for secure software supply chains, threat hunting, secrets management, zero-trust security, and more. It's time to expand your organization's tactics and put any future attackers in their place as you hear from industry leaders and experts on how they are facing these challenges in everyday scenarios — because if there is one thing we know about the cyberspace, any vulnerabilities left to chance will always be exposed.

Low code, no code, citizen development, AI automation, scalability — if you work in the tech world, it's likely that you have been encouraged to use tools in at least one of these spaces. And it's for a good reason as Gartner has projected that by 2025, 70% of applications developed within organizations will have been built using low- and/or no-code technologies. So does the practice live up to the hype? 

Year over year, the answer is a resounding "yes" as the industry continues to evolve. Organizations have an increased demand for more frequent application releases and updates, and with that comes the need for increased efficiencies. And this is where low-code and no-code development practices shine. Sprinkle AI automation into low- and no-code development, and the scalability opportunities are endless. 

This Trend Report covers the evolving landscape of low- and no-code development by providing a technical exploration of integration techniques into current development processes, the role AI plays in relation to low- and no-code development, governance, intelligent automated testing, and adoption challenges. In addition to findings from our original research, technical experts from the DZone Community contributed articles addressing important topics in the low code space, including scalability, citizen development, process automation, and much more. To ensure that you, the developer, can focus on higher priorities, this Trend Report aims to provide all the tools needed to successfully leverage low code in your tech stack. 

When assessing prominent topics across DZone — and the software engineering space more broadly — it simply felt incomplete to conduct research on the larger impacts of data and the cloud without talking about such a crucial component of modern software architectures: APIs. Communication is key in an era when applications and data capabilities are growing increasingly complex. Therefore, we set our sights on investigating the emerging ways in which data that would otherwise be isolated can better integrate with and work alongside other app components and across systems.

For DZone's 2024 Modern API Management Trend Report, we focused our research specifically on APIs' growing influence across domains, prevalent paradigms and implementation techniques, security strategies, AI, and automation. Alongside observations from our original research, practicing tech professionals from the DZone Community contributed articles addressing key topics in the API space, including automated API generation via no and low code; communication architecture design among systems, APIs, and microservices; GraphQL vs. REST; and the role of APIs in the modern cloud-native landscape.