The Atlassian Summit is taking place this week in Las Vegas. Atlassian is using the event to make a lot of announcements regarding its own solutions, but a number of other companies are also using the event to discuss new solutions and integrations with Atlassian products. SmartBear announces integrations with the Atlassian ecosystem SmartBear is … continue reading
JQuery has announced the release of jQuery 3.4. The team has stated that this will be the last release in the 3.x branch, and it will begin working on jQuery 4.0. It has made improvements to the process of getting and setting dimensions, added support for “nonce” and “nomodule,” and fixed the expected state for … continue reading
Atlassian today announced product enhancements and rebranding at its 2019 Summit in Las Vegas. AgileCraft, the agile project management company that Atlassian acquired last month, is being rebranded as Jira Align, with the goal of bringing together AgileCraft’s agile-at-scale solution with Jira so no matter where users are on their Agile path, they can benefit … continue reading
Google is starting the deprecation process for its Android Gradle 3.4.0 feature plug-in and instant app plug-in, which were included in Android Studio 3.4. Developers will receive a warning flagging those plug-ins as deprecated as they are building apps. The Android team urges developers to migrate their apps to an instant-enabled app bundle soon. Instant-enabled … continue reading
Data Stream Network provider PubNub has announced that it has raised $23 million in Series D funding, bringing its total funding up to $70 million. PubNub offers a real-time messaging and edge computing platform that can be used to develop apps that provide connected shared experiences, such as live chat, rideshare, and enterprise collaboration. The … continue reading
DevOps has moved from philosophy to practical. Development tools are moving to the cloud, but there are hurdles. The industry needs a benevolent center of gravity, through which data from numerous tools can flow, for analysis and action. These are some of the trends software toolmaker Atlassian are seeing in the development market, and some … continue reading
Testim.io uses machine learning to speed the authoring, execution, and maintenance of automated tests. A developer can author a test case in minutes and execute them on multiple web and mobile platforms. We learn from every execution, self-improving the stability of test cases, resulting in a test suite that doesn’t break on every code change. … continue reading
Feature flags allow faster, safer feature delivery to users by decoupling code deployment from feature release. They provide a number of benefits to development and DevOps teams. These include: enabling A/B/n testing, showing different experiences to different users and allowing teams to see how those experiences affect user behavior, enabling Kill Switches that allow for … continue reading
Real-time visibility into their DevOps projects is a somewhat to extremely important goal for 84 percent of 200 North America respondents to a survey from SmartDraw Software, a provider of diagramming software. With DevOps projects growing more complex, and often involving multiple tool integrations, gaining visibility into those projects has become a challenge, even for … continue reading
WhiteSource has announced a new integration with Atlassian Bitbucket Server that will provide developers with real-time alerts on open-source vulnerabilities within the Bitbucket UI. The integration will also automatically create fix pull requests, which will help speed up the remediation process. “The WhiteSource Bitbucket Server Integration is the latest step in our mission to help … continue reading
Once you hit a stride with microservices and you are able to iterate more quickly, find and fix bugs faster, and introduce new features rapidly — it is crucial not to go overboard. You may want to try to start moving all your pieces of infrastructure to a microservice architecture, but as one company found … continue reading
It can be easy to fall into bad patterns when moving to microservices, according to Chris Richardson, microservices consultant and founder of the transactional microservices startup Eventuate. The important thing is to recognize the mistakes you are making and address them. Some common mistakes or anti-patterns Richardson sees organizations fall into are: Distribution is free: … continue reading
