Why You Should Look Into Low Code • Christoph Windheuser • GOTO 2022

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Amsterda 2022. #GOTOcon #GOTOams

Christoph Windheuser - Building Applications Fast in High Quality, Based on Data & AI

ABSTRACT
The process of creating software and applications hasn’t changed much in the last 25 years. At the same time, the demand for new developed applications will grow up to 500 millions in the next 3 years, to be done by about 30 million developers worldwide today.

No Code / Low Code (NC/LC) will help to escape this dilemma: It will make developers much more efficient and will help to augment the number of people able to develop apps by enabling “citizen developers” (non-technical people in business roles able to develop apps with No Code). Gartner predicts that 70% of new applications developed by enterprises will use NC/LC technologies in 2025.

In the talk, we will first define what we mean by NL/LC. How does it work, what are the possibilities and limitations?

Then we will investigate how developers can use Low Code to boost their productivity with things like graphical development, radical reusability of code and services and using rule engines and machine learning to continuously check the code and alert the developers about possible errors.

Low Code is not a threat to developers: Architecture and design skills are still in need, Low Code can and should follow microservice architectures and domain-driven design. We will show how modern software engineering practices like cloud, devops, test-driven development, CI/CD still apply to low code development.

At the end, we look into the future: How will AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP) push Low Code and No Code even further? What are the dangers of this approach? [...]

TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
01:49 Agenda
02:52 Why low code?
07:16 What is low code?
11:49 What makes low code more efficient?
17:20 Low code & modern SW development
21:57 Things to consider when using low code
27:44 Future of low code
36:41 Summary
38:38 Outro

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[Lemmy]

When they show that 47% of eterprises are using low code solutions, and that by 2025 70% of new applications will us low code solutions, and they state that MS Excel is a low code tool, do we mean that we just found out that 47% of enterprise use MS Excel and that 70% of new applications will leverage on tools like MS Excel?

[gammalgris]

The idea has some good aspects.

Current implementations lack in various details. Versioning. Testability (hard to test and mainly manual testing). CI/CD is often messy. Missing import/export for customizations and configurations. Updating issues (you have to redo and fix stuff via the GUI). What the Tools and Wizards don't support cannot be done. Vendor Lock in. No one understands the "plumbing" and issues arising from this cannot be solved. Etc.

If these issues are solved it may really push productivity. Unless this happens this is more for prototyping. The irony is that temporary solutions outlive their usefulness, i.e. are longer in production use than expected.

[GhostBitchKiller]

An employee of a company that offers a low code platform talks about the advantages (there are never any disadvantages from such speakers on this topic) of low code / no code. Why should one listen to this lecture again?

[dinoscheidt]

Code that has no tests, versioning and data specs, no matter if in letters or arrows, is not an app or solution — its a liability. Low code solutions push thousands of liabilities into companies. Great opportunity for real software engineers to make money fixing stuff

[jakub.anderwald]

1:00 to solve the high demand low supply of developers we need to introduce low or no code
23:00 there is currently high demand for low code developers and their rates are high :)

[clojurediary]

This guy down't know to code. IT's written all over his speech.