LogDNA, the observability data platform, today announced a $50 million Series D funding round led by cybersecurity investment and advisory firm, NightDragon. This financing round also includes participation from existing investors Emergence and Initialized Capital. The investment comes on the heels of Deloitte’s 2021 Technology Fast 500, which highlighted LogDNA’s 1293% revenue growth from 2017 … continue reading
The DevOps Movement has many recommended practices for automation of processes and testing. However, across different market verticals, the requirements, practices, and cadence of releases very widely. For example, in the more security or safety relevant software markets, development processes often also include compliance to coding standards, or other security and safety practices that must … continue reading
At the start of the year, we declared that 2021 would be the year of low code. It turned out to be a fairly accurate prediction. Low code was used throughout the past two years by small businesses needing to quickly open online storefronts, companies needing to create tooling to support remote workers, and by … continue reading
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 … continue reading
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 … continue reading
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 … continue reading
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 … continue reading
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 … continue reading
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 … continue reading
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 … continue reading
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 … continue reading
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 … continue reading
