Get more value from DevOps — take the customer’s perspective
Many years ago, I wanted to impress everyone at my new software engineering job. I bought a book about the technology I’d be working with and also contacted my hiring manager and asked him, “What can I do to prepare and get ready?” I wanted to be on the right path, right away. His answer …
SD Times news digest: AWS announces Amplify Studio; Microsoft unveils Teams ToolKit 3.0; Mirantis launches DevOpsCare
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced the launch of Amplify Studio at its re:Invent conference. AWS Amplify Studio is a new visual development environment that enables developers to create web application user interfaces (UIs) with minimal coding, while also allowing them to customize their applications’ design and behavior. Amplify Studio builds on AWS Amplify to …
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Pants
Pants is a distributed open source software build system designed to facilitate engineering best practices as well as add highly-granular intelligent caching in order to speed up test suite execution both locally and remotely. In addition, Pants helps to make modern software development and deployment more resistant to errors by systematizing the entirety of the …
Uno Platform 4.0 introduces extensions
The latest version of the Uno Platform was unveiled at UnoConf. Uno is a UI platform that uses C# and WinUI and can be used with single-codebase applications across Windows, WebAssembly, iOS, macOS, Android, and Linux. One major addition in Uno Platform 4.0 is Uno Extensions, which is based on Microsoft Extensions, which are capabilities …
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AI-enabled tools might completely change development…one day
While we’re not quite fully there yet, we may not be too far away from AI being a major part of the development process, helping developers eliminate some of the more mundane tasks of coding by suggesting code, autocompleting code, and making other useful suggestions. According to Chandra Kalle, VP of engineering at LeanTaaS, a …
SD Times news digest: Rollbar unveils Adaptive Alerts; Informatica announces new Databricks integration; JetBrains releases GoLand 2021.3
Rollbar, a provider of real-time error monitoring software-as-a-service, today announced Adaptive Alerts. This new feature uses anomaly detection in order to learn the standard behavior of enterprise applications and alerts developers of atypical exception rates while helping to reduce unwanted noise with zero ongoing configuration. Rollbar’s Adaptive Alerts detects anomalies by error exception type, which …
JetBrains Compose Multiplatform reaches 1.0 release
JetBrains has announced that Compose Multiplatform, which is a declarative UI framework for Kotlin, has reached the release of version 1.0, making it now ready for use in production. Users can now create Kotlin apps on desktop and can build production-quality dynamic web experiences using Compose for Web’s stable DOM API with full interoperability with …
Measuring developer productivity isn’t as simple as it sounds
When developers lie awake at night, they’re likely not thinking that they didn’t turn around enough tickets that day, or write a certain number of lines of code. Their fear is that they’ve broken something, and that they’ll be in trouble. In the meantime, C-level managers are primarily concerned with innovation, creating new products and …
How CodeLogic helps make developers more productive
Eric Minick, VP, Head of Product at CodeLogic, said: “CodeLogic helps developers surface risky dependencies in their code. We know the feeling when the latest feature changes something that might break something else: What could break? What do we review? Whether a feature requires a change to an attribute in a database column, or you’re …
SD Times news digest: Frontegg Series A; Aqua Security acquires Argon; Julia 1.7 released
User management company Frontegg has announced that it raised $25 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Insight Partners, and Pitango First and Global Founders Capital also participated. The company will use the new funds to scale its platform and accelerate global expansion across the market. “In the product-led era, the ever-evolving …
premium SD Times December 2021
The December issue of SD Times is now available. This issue features a look at how AI-enabled tools will shape development in the future, reviews of 2021, and a guide to developer productivity. …
Testing in DevOps
Testing in DevOps is as much about the people that are behind the tools as it is about the tools themselves. When they work in synchrony, organizations can see major benefits in the quality of their applications and software development life cycle processes. A recent report called The Role of Testing in a DevOps Environment …
A guide to testing tools for use in DevOps environments
The following is a listing of testing tool providers for DevOps environments, along with a brief description of their offerings. Applitools is built to test all the elements that appear on a screen with a single line of code. Using Applitools’ Visual AI, you can automatically verify that your web or mobile app both functions …
How these companies help organizations test applications in DevOps environments
We asked these tool providers to share more information on how their solutions help organizations test applications in their DevOps environments. Their responses are below. Gil Sever, co-founder and CEO of Applitools Modern software development teams are rapidly delivering innovation to market through more frequent and shorter release cycles, but they struggle to fully test …
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Unlocking real-world outcomes with value stream mapping
LIVE! THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2021 @ 11AM ET | 8AM PT | 4PM UK Increasing collaboration between teams to create customer value is now essential to doing business in the modern enterprise. But while understanding and reimagining how value is created through streams (rather than functional processes) becomes ever more important, realizing the value stream and …
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Test Management in an Agile Reality
AVAILABLE NOW For successful product testing, your test teams must be aligned with business criteria. A clearly articulated definition of “done” must be established and communicated to your testing teams. While these statements seem obvious, they are challenges that product development teams routinely struggle to solve, especially if they aren’t using a lifecycle management tool …
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Cloud Engineering – Generation DevSecOps
AVAILABLE NOW Requirements on developers have shifted over the last 5 years. Team sizes are shrinking but responsibilities are growing with DevOps and accelerated SDLC. A developer must become fluent in software architecture, testing, deployment, telemetry, and even security. It is less about multi-layer and more about multi-discipline. In this talk, Pete Chestna, CISO of …
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UPCOMING VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: VSMcon 2021
DAY 1 – November 3, 2021 – EXPO DAY, DAY 2 – November 4, 2021 – WORKSHOP DAY | This year’s TWO-DAY digital conference examines the benefits of creating and managing value streams in your development organization. As software development, delivery and performance become more complex due to modern architectures, value streams can help organizations unlock the bottlenecks and eliminate process waste to …
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Modern Mobile App Testing
AVAILABLE NOW Delightful user experiences start with visual perfection. With over half of website traffic coming from mobile, the need for faster and higher-quality apps is paramount. Not only that, but Mobile QA teams have to account for visual consistency across the thousands of devices. Join Frank Moyer as he discusses the best practices for …
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Low Code/No Code Developer Day 2021
NOW AVAILABLE ON DEMAND Organizations requiring a faster digital transformation are turning to low-code development solutions, empowering IT and non-IT personnel to use drag-and-drop tooling to quickly create necessary business applications. At Low Code/No Code Developer Day, you will learn about low-code and no-code tools, where they are appropriate to use, and what they can deliver. …
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