Red Hat today at its Summit event announced Red Hat Advanced Developer Suite, which the company said was designed to make developers more productive and their applications more secure. The Advanced Developer Suite includes Red Hat Developer Hub, an internal developer portal (IDP) built on the Cloud Native Computing Foundation project Backstage. The Developer Hub … continue reading
Following in the steps of other software providers looking to protect their intellectual property, flexible installer company InstallAware today announced it has published the source code for InstallAware 2025 under a Business Source License. In recent months, there has been a lot of discussion within the industry as to what constitutes open source, and if … continue reading
As AI can write so many more lines of code more quickly than humans, the need for code review that keeps pace with development is now an urgent necessity. A recent survey by SmartBear – whose early founder, Jason Cohen, literally wrote the book on peer code review – found that the average developer can … continue reading
Over the past year or so, the industry has seen several open-source projects forked because the founders of those projects changed their licenses in moves they say were to protect their intellectual property. Redis switched from the open BSD license to the more restrictive Redis Source Available License v2 and the Server Side Public License … continue reading
Spark. It’s what many organizations are finding that AI can do for their digital transformation efforts. It’s also the theme of the 2025 Broadcom Value Stream Summit, at which the company will present its strategies and tooling for delivery customer value and service. The last major push for digital transformation was fueled by the COVID-19 … continue reading
UPDATED MARCH 28 The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) has created a Project Security Baseline that helps open source projects of all sizes ensure that their efforts are secure. The baseline defines a minimum set of requirements for application security that developers can do to enforce secure development practices, such as how they need to … continue reading
With AI making its way into code and infrastructure, it’s also becoming important in the area of data search and retrieval. I recently had the chance to discuss this with Steve Kearns, the general manager of Search at Elastic, and how AI and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) can be used to build smarter, more reliable … continue reading
Application security posture management company Apiiro today has released two open-source tools to help organizations defend against malicious code in their applications. The action comes on the heels of Apiiro’s security research that shows thousands of malicious code instances in repositories and packages. According to the company, its focus in the research was deep code … continue reading
A new report from Forrester on the rapid adoption and evolution of artificial intelligence reveals that organizations are being challenged to hire workers with the skills needed for AI-specific roles. While the role of the traditional developer will certainly change – and perhaps even be de-prioritized – the report found three areas in which skills … continue reading
Organizations are looking to artificial intelligence to enhance their value stream initiatives, according to the fourth annual Value Stream Management survey sponsored by Broadcom and conducted by Dimension Research. According to 90% of respondents, AI can help in the advancement of value stream management, in the areas of improving predictive analytics, automating workflows and processes, … continue reading
Artificial intelligence is very effective at answering questions, based on the data upon which it was trained. It is, however, still quite limited in what it can do. For instance, you could ask AI to book a flight reservation to Paris, with a seat in economy plus, and to give you an itinerary once you … continue reading
As we do every year, we’ve heard from folks around the software development industry who share their thoughts on which areas will thrive and which might not survive in 2025 and beyond. Here are some of their predictions for next year. Derek Holt, CEO of Digital.ai While Value Stream Management continued to lose steam in … continue reading
