Software supply chain hygiene: The big picture
Organizations have been forced to learn the hard way over the past year the importance of software supply chain security. In late 2021, a vulnerability was detected in Log4j, which is a framework for logging in Java that is used as a dependency in over 7,000 open-source projects. This was just one example of a …
Codefresh announces hosted version of GitOps platform
Codefresh, the continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD) solution, today announced that its CD platform will be made available as a fully-hosted solution for GitOps teams looking to achieve frictionless, GitOps based continuous software delivery in the cloud. This new hosted offering works to provide Argo CD as a Service as well as introduces new DORA dashboards and …
AWS increases its commitment to OpenSSF by $10 million
To address the ongoing concerns in the industry regarding supply chain security, AWS has announced it is increasing its investment in the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) by $10 million over the next three years. “Security is our top priority at AWS,” said Mark Ryland, director of the Office of the CISO at AWS. “As …
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Cloudflare Workers
Cloudflare recently announced that it would be open-sourcing its Cloudflare Workers runtime, which is a platform for building serverless apps. The decision came about because when talking to developers not yet using Cloudflare Workers, their two main hesitations tend to be that they worry about vendor lock-in and they want a local development environment. According …
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Microsoft launches new lab for building inclusive tech, unveils new adaptive accessories
Microsoft has been putting a lot of effort into building more inclusive solutions for all of its users over the past few years, and at its Microsoft Ability Summit, it announced new updates on that front. It has launched the Inclusive Tech Lab, which is a successor to a lab that was created by the …
Flutter 3 released with multiplatform capabilities
Google has announced that the open-source UI software development kit, Flutter, has been updated and Flutter 3 is now generally available. This announcement came as part of the Google I/O keynote and completes Flutter’s roadmap from a mobile-centric to a multiplatform framework. With Flutter 3, users are enabled to build experiences for six platforms from …
Android 13 Beta 2 now available with strong emphasis on privacy improvements
As a part of Google I/O, the team at Android announced the release of the second beta of Android 13. According to the company, this release is intended to gauge user feedback and encourage collaboration with the community. This second beta release places a strong emphasis on both privacy and security as well as developer …
Google’s new AlloyDB for PostgreSQL helps companies transition from legacy databases
At its Google I/O conference, Google announced a new database service that it hopes will free customers of their legacy database systems. AlloyDB for PostgreSQL is a fully-managed database service compatible with PostgreSQL. “Databases are increasingly shifting into the cloud and we expect this trend to continue as more companies digitally transform their businesses. With …
Docker unveils two major additions to platform
This year at DockerCon 2022, Docker made two major updates to its platform to increase developer productivity. First, it announced the release of Docker Extensions, enabling developers to add development tools to Docker Desktop. This will allow developers to extend Docker Desktop’s existing capabilities to better suit their needs. As part of this announcement, the …
Meta Open Source to donate Jest to the OpenJS Foundation
Meta Open Source has announced that Jest, its open-source JavaScript testing framework, is officially being transferred to the OpenJS Foundation. According to the company, this comes as an exciting next step as Jest continues to mature as an open-source project. This open-source project serves to enable developers to write high performance tests with little configuration …
Latest version of Android Studio now available
The Android development team announced the stable release of Android Studio Chipmunk, the latest version of the official IDE for building Android apps. One new feature is the Compose Animation Preview which enables developers to inspect and debug animations that were built with Compose. They can inspect the exact values of each animated value at …
Software development: Product-driven or design-led?
Most software developers work within project-oriented teams, since most companies are not startup vendors that can constantly reinvent themselves and deliver hot new products to market. Upgrades, integration and modernization projects carry forward a sizable estate of already coded software assets and third-party service dependencies. I once pondered an alternative product-driven strategy for software organizations …
The Great Resignation is the Great Recruitment tool
A lot of attention has been given over the past year over the phenomenon of the Great Resignation: workers have been leaving their jobs at surprisingly high rates. According to data from the Pew Research Center, in November 2021, the rate of workers quitting their jobs rose to a 20-year high in the United States. …
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Impact of Zero-Day Attacks on SSC Management
LIVE Wednesday, May 18 2022 @ 1PM ET | 10AM PT Studying software engineering practices from 100,000 production applications and 4,000,000 open source component migrations, Sonatype uncovered eye-opening behaviors in modern software development, including a surprising trend that nearly 70% of dependency management decisions are suboptimal. Understanding these migration paths, helps make sense of part …
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VSMcon 2022
AVAILABLE NOW FOR ON-DEMAND VIEWING! This event focuses on bringing business and IT together. We expanded our 4th event lineup with more experts in Value Stream Management execution and optimization to bring you all the information you need to either start your value stream journey, or to improve on what you’re already doing. We cover …
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How LogicMonitor Evolved Their Monitoring & How You Can Too
LIVE! Thursday May 26, 2022 @ 1PM ET | 10AM PT Digital transformation, for some people, is just another buzzword repeated by their organization wanting to migrate to the cloud without any concrete plan of implementation. We’re not going to lie to you, digital transformation isn’t simple and it isn’t easy, but with a foolproof …
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SD Times Live! microwebinar series – Value Stream Management
NEXT LIVE SESSION: 5/17/2022 @ 1PM ET SD Times Live! microwebinar series Value Stream Management Topic 3 of 6 – Live Streaming! May 17th @ 1PM ET | 10AM PT – “The Surprising Reality About Bottlenecks” Have you ever experienced a “bait and switch?” It can be frustrating when expectations don’t meet reality. We believe …
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GraphQL Security: Something Old and Something New
LIVE! Wednesday June 8, 2022 @ 1PM ET | 10AM PT As an alternative, successor, and child to REST, GraphQL inherits the old security challenges of its antecedent and adds new security challenges of its own. In this session, we will review how to apply old REST security recipes in order to establish a solid …
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Creating and Implementing a test automation strategy for mobile app quality
LIVE! Wednesday, May 25 2022 @ 1PM ET | 10AM PT Test automation has proven to have a significant impact on software development and the efficiency of the organization. But many companies are struggling to make the move to automation on mobile, and face enormous pressure to increase speed to market. Monthly releases are not …
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- Software AG finalizes acquisition of StreamSets to further accelerate rapid growth in hybrid integration
- Melissa expands postal partnerships, giving etailers and direct marketers a one-stop shop for international reach
- Perforce to acquire DevOps pioneer Puppet
- Talend acquires Gamma Soft, a market innovator in change data capture
- Grafana Labs announces $240 million investment round led by GIC and welcomes new investor J.P. Morgan
- SmartBear acquires Pactflow delivering first key milestone in defining next generation API development platform
- Harness acquires ChaosNative, bringing leading chaos engineering solution to award-winning software delivery platform
- Olive and NTT DATA Join Forces to Accelerate the Global Development and Deployment of AI Solutions
