Nowadays developers are in the driver’s seat regarding a lot of decisions for the tools they use. In this update from Tyler Jewell, he covers what he sees are the Top 5 trends that will take place this year. While it’s a bit of a crowded chart, he plots the companies that he sees driving these trends. If you drill into the Service Catalog trend, Jewell sees a couple of different groups working on ways to help developers deal with the deluge of Services (aka APIs).

When we were building out our first UI at Speedscale we wanted to get something up and running quickly. Fortunately there are a ton of options of web frameworks that can be used to throw together a quick “hello world” kind of application. However, a SaaS application needs a lot more than just displaying data. It needs to handle user authentication, loading data from a backend API, displaying data in a variety of formats, etc.