Back-End Development: Definition, Stats, & Trends To Follow In 2024

Back-end development goes above and beyond being a functional website component. It has evolved itself into a stand-alone solution. And this is the reason, businesses are planning to move their applications to the server side from the client side.
This blog will discuss the top 9 trends that will dominate back-end services in 2024.

Let's start the blog but basics first.

What Is Back-End Development?

Back-end development is more like BTS but for an application on the server-side. It allows users for data storage, retrieving it and accessing it as and when needed. Developers build the back-end applications including,

• PHP;
• Ruby on Rails;
• Python

Statistics On The Back-End Development

In 2024, 40.8% of developers reported using Node.js as a web framework.
The BaaS market will grow big, $27.9 billion by 2032 as compared to $2.8 billion in 2022. Mobile and web apps are driving this growth.

Back-End Development Trends For 2024

Below are the top 9 trends:

- Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)
AI and ML teaches systems to learn from data. Artificial intelligence creates intelligent systems. Machine learning recognizes patterns and makes predictions using its training models. The training model includes linear regression, decision trees, or neural networks.
Jointly, AI and ML will help developers build smarter and more responsive applications.

Benefits:

1. - They offer tailored experiences for the users
2. - They forecast future trends
3. - They streamline repetitive tasks

- Containerization and Orchestration
Containerization is a lighter version of virtualization. It packs applications and their dependencies into one single unit. The single unit is called a container. They are perfect for development of modern-day applications and their deployment. It solves the ‘it worked on my machine’ problem because the app runs the same everywhere.
Orchestration allows developers to perform complex tasks without human intervention. Tools like Kubernetes do container deployment, demand-based container scaling and container availability so developers can put their time on coding and resource utilization.

Benefits:

1. They increased reliability
2. They boost productivity
3. They are highly scalable

- Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS)
BaaS offers scalable infrastructure for app development. It allows developers to focus more on front-end tasks. But that doesn't mean they have to overlook the backend. They can also handle the backend technology tasks and their complexities like authentication and database management

Benefits:

1. It allows for faster development
2. It automatically scales backend infrastructure
3. It is a pay-as-you-go model

- Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)
Event-driven architecture (EDA) is a modern architecture pattern. An event means 'change in state,' and applications respond to events instead of the traditional request-response model. This means components of an application can communicate asynchronously, making it easy to scale, respond, update, and deploy different system components independently.

Benefits:

1. It builds extensible systems
2. It scales and fails independently
3. It is cost-efficient

- Serverless Architecture
With serverless architecture developers can write codes and build applications. And that too without the fret of servers. It helps in the faster deployment of new services or functions. This allows the team members to work freely on their own without interrupting other team members. Furthermore, here you only have pay on a use basis.

Benefits:

1. They are scalable
2. They are cost effective
3. They reduce operational overhead

- API-First Development
API-first development designs and builds APIs. It takes place before building the front side and the back-side of an application. It defines how other systems and its parts will interact with it.

Benefits:

1. It factionalizes front-end and back-end
2. Reusability of API
3. It can independently test applications

- Microservice Architecture
Microservice architecture split up an application into different components. These decoupled components have the capacity for later development. Developers can deploy them independently.

Benefits:

1. It is flexible
2. It is highly resilient
3. It improves development speed

- Cloud-Native Development
Cloud-native development helps developers deploy and manage applications. This doesn't just happen on one cloud environment but across multiple cloud environments. And the best part of it is these applications are flexible, adapted to different environments, and meet market and user demands in real-time.

Benefits:

1. It is highly scalable
2. It has a fault-tolerance capacity
3. It utilizes resources efficiently

- Serverless Apps
Serverless apps perform their function on a cloud platform. They use AWS Lambda, Azure, Google Cloud to perform their tasks. These don't need you to set up or manage a physical server. Instead, they allow you to write and upload codes directly on a cloud environment.
These applications allow you to pay for what you use. You can add hardware only when your site gets more traffic.

Benefits:

1. They need minimal cold start times
2. They improve fault tolerance
3. Developers have to pay per use basis.

Conclusion

These new trends are right up our alley and are no less than a treat for you as a developer. You just need to stay up-to-date with the new trends and developments coming literally everyday and adapt to changing trends.

~ About Author
Tanya Lebedzeva
Tanya is the Head of Business Analysis at ScienceSoft. She manages the team of 30+ business analysts and consultants. Tanya advocates a proactive approach to analyzing clients’ needs, which puts ScienceSoft’s solutions far ahead of the competition as well-designed and growth-oriented. Tanya initiated the growth of industry- and technology-specific competencies of ScienceSoft’s business analysis team.