DevOps will be a dominant driver in the cloud computing arena in 2023, according to leading data and analytics company GlobalData, as enterprises advance their app modernization strategies.

This prediction came about as part of research by GlobalData Technology Analyst Charlotte Dunlap, who notes that significant innovations in sophisticated application architectures will usher in new serverless deployment integrations with various cloud services, abstracting complicated configuration requirements.

She brings over 20 years of industry experience to her role as Principal Analyst for Application Platforms at GlobalData and covers the technologies that provide the DevOps infrastructure necessary to build and run enterprise applications and services.

According to Dunlap ground-breaking new artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot achievements based on large language models such as (ChatGPT) will ease developers’ cumbersome coding requirements by automating the writing/converting of scripting, particularly programming languages developers are unfamiliar with.

GlobalData reveals that increased AI/automation advancements and accessibility will significantly escalate in 2023, playing a greater role in easing next-generation app development capabilities among developers and DevOps teams.

“A primary example that highlights 2023 AI/automation innovations is the recent release of ChatGPT, version 3.5”

“The Natural Language Processing (NLP) model, developed by OpenAI, is trained on a massive amount of text data, so it’s able to generate human-like text and response.”

“In addition to using the prototype AI chatbot to outright create new code without having to know any programming languages, a major use case will be in improving the Natural Language Understanding (NLU) of apps targeting customer service to provide more human-like responses to user-inputs,” said Dunlap

“Such technology advancements will result in a newfound prioritization of DevOps among enterprises, based on a new wave of developer technologies, which significantly remove obstructions hindering deployment of modern apps,” she said.

Additionally, over the next 12 months, developers will have access to integrated serverless app deployment options through key services including database management and app development tools, paving the way for serverless computing to be paired with event-driven architectures.

Dunlap added “Since its rollout a few years ago, serverless computing hasn’t lived up to expectations due to the problematic underlying architecture. However, in recent months, providers have worked through some of those issues, including abstracting scalability configuration requirements.,”

“Furthermore, game-changing developer tools, including WebAssembly, will leverage traditional web browser technology to create new uses with containers and Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS),”

“The new technology is able to provide more robust cloud management of apps at scale on the same cloud infrastructure,’’ Dunlap concluded.