Platform engineering teams are on the rise, with 94% of respondents to Puppet by Perforce’s 2023 State of DevOps report saying that platform engineering is helping them realize the benefits of DevOps more than before. According to the company, platform engineering is the practice of “designing and building self-service capabilities to minimize cognitive load for … continue reading
Microsoft announced version 8.1 of the .NET Community Toolkit, which includes highly requested features, bug fixes, and performance improvements to the MVVM Toolkit source generators. The new version includes custom attributes for ‘[ObservableProperty].’ With no constraints on the types of attributes that this feature supports, this allows complete flexibility in annotations for generated properties, all … continue reading
Social Boost, a Ukrainian tech company, and its 1991 Accelerator are launching the 1991 Hackathon: Media, a free event focused on identifying digital solutions to counter disinformation, analyze data for media, and develop cyber hygiene. The event will take place Jan. 20-22 at the Google Campus in Warsaw, Poland and online. The winning projects of … continue reading
Nearly four-fifths of developers (79%) believe that contributing to open source projects has helped further their careers, but 78% still say that companies should pay them for the time spent on contributions. This is according to a new survey from the CNCF and TAG Contributor Strategy (TAG CS), which is a group within the CNCF … continue reading
The requirements management and traceability solution provider Jama Software today unveiled new enhancements made to Jama Connect’s user experience. With this, Jama Connect now offers users a Document View, which allows them to read, author, and edit items in-line in one view while keeping an item-based structure in project hierarchies. The company stated that this … continue reading
API company Jitterbit recently announced the integration of its message queueing service, MQ, into its automation platform, Harmony. According to Jitterbit, MQ provides capabilities for creating, deploying, and managing message queues. This enables things like asynchronous processing, guaranteed message delivery, and more efficient management of system workloads and resources. It provides simpler backend configuration, and … continue reading
When I ask developers to name their biggest threat to developer experience, productivity, and software quality, the answers are often focused on a single challenge that only ever seems to increase in difficulty. Software complexity. It makes sense that software would be more complex today than, say, 20 years ago, when I first started my … continue reading
Overnight, every company in the world became a software company. Those companies are either on the journey to becoming a world-class software company or they are going extinct. One key step in a successful journey requires connecting the daily work done by software teams to corporate goals and embracing autonomy with alignment. Software development is … continue reading
March 13, 2020. Friday the 13th. That’s when a large number of companies shut their offices to prevent the spread of a deadly virus – COVID-19. Many thought this would be a short, temporary thing. They were wrong. The remainder of 2020 and 2021 were spent trying to figure out how to get an entire … continue reading
OptaPlanner is an open-source, lightweight, embeddable planning engine. With this, organizations can reduce costs, improve service quality, fulfill employee wishes, and reduce carbon emissions. It is object oriented programming and functional programming friendly and, according to the company, it works to allow programmers to efficiently solve optimization problems. This open-source tool improves plans and schedules … continue reading
Marketing leaders will continue facing uncertain and volatile conditions in 2023, while still being under pressure to drive growth. These include things like changes to third-party tracking in browsers, the economy, marketing budget cuts, and more. The tech industry in particular has been impacted by these volatile conditions in the market and in the workforce. … continue reading
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Jan. 12, 2023 – DataStax, the real-time AI company, today announced it has acquired Kaskada, a machine learning (ML) company that first solved managing, storing and accessing time-based data to train behavioral ML models and deliver the instant, actionable insights that fuel artificial intelligence (AI). Both DataStax and Kaskada have a track record of contributing to open source communities. Datastax will open source … continue reading
