Report: 72% of tech leaders plan to increase investment in tech skills development
Despite 65% of tech team leaders being asked to cut down on costs, 72% stated that they still plan to enhance their investment in technology skills development in 2023 according to technology workforce development company Pluralsight’s 2023 State of Upskilling Report. Furthermore, 97% of learning and development and HR directors said that they are opting …
Java 20 introduces several new improvements around JVM
Oracle has announced the release of Java 20, which includes seven JDK Enhancement Proposals (JEPs). According to Oracle, many of the new features are follow-ups to previous features, adding new functionality or making improvements, and all are either preview or incubating features. Two language updates in Java 20 are the ability to nest record patterns …
SEC probe and newly discovered $4.7B liability puts ARM at greater risk
A lot of us have been looking at ARM more closely since litigation with Qualcomm started. To refresh you on that situation, that litigation appears to be an effort to get Qualcomm to pay significantly more for licenses for PCs than it does for smartphones, even though the PC effort has yet to be successful. …
The recipients of the 2022 Free Software Awards have been announced
Eli Zaretskii, Tad (SkewedZepplin), and GNU Jami have been announced as the winners of the Free Software Foundation’s (FSF) 2022 Free software Awards. These awards are given annually to groups and individuals who have made notable contributions to the cause of software freedom. Zaretskii was the recipient of this year’s Award for the Advancement of …
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Report: 92% of organizations are not prepared for digital transformation
The majority of organizations seeking to make a digital transformation are not equipped to do it successfully, according to the results of the recently released “2023 Project to Product: State of the Industry” report by portfolio management company Planview. Only 8% of respondents stated that they have operationalized the shift from project to product, meaning …
Microsoft introduces AI copilot in Power Apps to improve low-code development
Microsoft recently announced a next-generation AI copilot in Microsoft Power Apps in order to enable users to build an application, and the data behind it, by describing what they need through several steps of conversation. According to the company, this release is a way to move to the next evolution of code abstraction, transitioning from …
PyTorch 2.0 introduces accelerated Transformer API to democratize ML
The PyTorch team has officially released PyTorch 2.0, which was first previewed back in December 2022 at the PyTorch Conference. PyTorch is a Linux Foundation machine learning framework that was originally developed by Meta. This release includes a high-performance implementation of the Transformer API. It supports more use cases now, such as models using Cross-Attention, …
TypeScript 5.0 implements new ECMAScript “decorators” standard
Microsoft has officially released the latest version of its JavaScript-based language TypeScript. According to Microsoft, TypeScript 5.0 is not a particularly disruptive release, which means the upgrade process should be relatively simple. This release includes a number of new features and improvements that make the language smaller, simpler, and faster. Among the updates is that …
Qt launches Qt Insight to provide developers with better customer insights
The new Qt Insight platform provides real customer insights into the usage of applications or devices. The platform reveals how users navigate devices, identifies customer pain points, analyzes performance, and creates concrete, evidence-based development plans to optimize product development and lower running costs by eliminating redundant, unused features based on session activity and metrics such …
Why Developer Success leads to Business Success
In today’s tech landscape, engineering talent is one of the most valuable assets that an organization can have. However, increasing attrition rates among developers means that retaining quality developer talent is also one of the biggest challenges for business leaders. Even despite sweeping layoffs in tech, engineers are still in high demand. At the center …
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Include
eBay’s newly open-sourced tool, Include, was built to make accessibility annotation easy, smooth, and simple, to ensure that accessibility is a core part of the design experience, rather than something crammed in later. The plugin was developed by members of the accessibility and design teams at eBay and is released for public use on Figma. …
AWS releases Amazon Linux 2023 to offer heightened security and cloud optimization
AWS recently announced the release of Amazon Linux 2023, the third generation of AWS’s Linux operating systems. According to the company, this release is geared at offering users enhanced security, optimization for the cloud, and long-term AWS support. With this release, users gain heightened security standards with new preconfigured policies that simplify the process of …
SAFe 6.0 and SAFe Studio Platform released to help organizations achieve business agility
Scaled Agile Inc., provider of business agility system SAFe, today announced the release of two new flagship products: SAFe 6.0 and SAFe Studio. SAFe 6.0 offers users the latest version of the Scaled Agile Framework, courses, certifications, toolkits, and online learning and SAFe Studio is a platform where SAFe professionals can learn, practice, and manage …
New Relic announces JFrog integration to provide a single point of access for monitoring
Observability company New Relic and DevOps company JFrog today announced an integration to give engineering teams a single point of access to monitor software development operations. With this integration, users are able to access real-time visibility into CI/CD pipelines, APIs, and web application development workflows so that DevOps and security leaders can solve software supply …
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SD Times Live! Microwebinar Series – Testing
LIVE STREAMING March 21st, 2023 @ 1PM ET | 10AM PT Episode 1: How Automated E2E Testing Creates a Safety Net for Innovation Speaker: Dennis Nelson, Customer Education Lead @ mabl As teams adopt DevOps practices and aim for automated pipelines, they need to expand the scope of testing that’s shifted left and aim for …
Zero Day doesn’t mean Zero hope – Fast detection / Fast remediation
AVAILABLE NOW | Software supply chain attacks mainly happen because 80-90% of all software developed relies on third party dependencies. Most of these attacks don’t happen with the dependencies you implicitly state but the transitive dependencies they rely on. The most dangerous of these attacks happen on a “Zero Day” which is where a vulnerability …
From Zero (Day) to Hero
AVAILABLE NOW | It feels like the song is on repeat. Another week, another zero-day vulnerability is disclosed. Some are more potent than others. Log4j and Spring4Shell were on the catastrophic side. Enterprises are still grappling with the long tail of Log4j. The Department of Homeland Security Under Secretary Rob Silvers, the board’s chairman, recently proclaimed that …
Building and Deploying Python Code in Snowflake
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Bust This Myth: Software Quality is not Everyone’s Problem – Six Ways Tool Integration Dramatically Improves Test Management Processes and QA
AVAILABLE NOW Now, I got no fight with any man who does what he’s told, but when he don’t, the machine breaks down. And when the machine breaks down, we break down. And I ain’t gonna allow that in any of you. Not one. — Sgt Barnes, Platoon (1986) In our world of software delivery, …
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SD Times Live! Microwebinar Series – Testing
LIVE STREAMING March 21st, 2023 @ 1PM ET | 10AM PT Episode 1: How Automated E2E Testing Creates a Safety Net for Innovation Speaker: Dennis Nelson, Customer Education Lead @ mabl As teams adopt DevOps practices and aim for automated pipelines, they need to expand the scope of testing that’s shifted left and aim for …
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Zero Day doesn’t mean Zero hope – Fast detection / Fast remediation
AVAILABLE NOW | Software supply chain attacks mainly happen because 80-90% of all software developed relies on third party dependencies. Most of these attacks don’t happen with the dependencies you implicitly state but the transitive dependencies they rely on. The most dangerous of these attacks happen on a “Zero Day” which is where a vulnerability …
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Incorporating Mobile App Security into the Development Lifecycle Without Friction
Security is inherently more expensive if organizations find vulnerabilities after deployment, rather than incorporated into the lifecycle via security assurance (SA). If security isn’t incorporated early and often, major consequences could happen, such as: Financial loss Reputational damage Data loss (company or customer) IP theft And much more! This report will show you how and …
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The Forrester Wave: Security Analytics Platforms
Sumo Logic is named a strong performer in the Forrester Research, Inc. report: “The Forrester Wave: Security Analytics Platforms, Q4 2022.” We believe the results in this evaluation also reflect the trust customers place in our SaaS security analytics platform to help ensure application reliability, secure and protect their organizations against modern threats, while gaining …
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Six strategies to deliver reliable and secure digital customer experiences
Why is digital customer experience important? Secure and reliable digital experiences are essential to modern-day living, and of course are a priority for product and development teams in digital-first organizations. Creating and maintaining them is also hard, and when it comes to increasing user acquisition and retention, while building a sense of trust, exceptional digital …
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Integrated Observability solution for logs, metrics, and traces for microservices architectures
Sumo Logic’s Continuous Intelligence Platform for Application Observability enables faster issue resolution and root cause analysis with seamless integration between performance monitoring, distributed transaction tracing, and logs. Learn more about what it is and what it can do for you! …
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