In the current situation IT teams find themselves in, they are being forced to do more with even fewer resources. You’ve likely heard (or possibly been affected by) the swath of layoffs that have plagued the tech industry over the past several months. IT teams are expected to continue outputting great work, except now their … continue reading
When creating a platform engineering team, an important first step is the interview process. What do developers want and need? What works, and what doesn’t? Sounds like what companies do when reaching out to customers about new rollouts, right? Well, it is, when you consider your development team as being customers of the platform. “Treat … continue reading
The now generally available AWS Application Composer is a visual builder that enables users to compose and configure serverless applications from AWS services backed by deployment-ready infrastructure as code (IaC). AWS Application Composer allows for building prototypes of serverless applications and collaboratively reviewing them, generating diagrams for documentation or Wikis, and onboarding new team members … continue reading
Zenhub, the leading project management solution for software teams, today announced it has raised $10 million in its Series A funding round. Led by Yaletown Partners, with support from BMO Capital Partners and existing investors BDC Capital, this funding will be used to expand the use of Zenhub’s project management platform beyond technical teams using … continue reading
The Android development team has announced the release of the second developer preview for Android 14. This is the final developer preview before the new version enters beta. This preview includes a number of updates related to privacy and security. For example, Photo Picker, which provides an interface that shows a users’ media library, is … continue reading
ChatGPT, and other generative AIs, have continued to be the talk of the development community over the last several weeks. A number of things have happened with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, including a new API and more reactions stemming from interactions with Bing Search. Here is a breakdown of things you may have missed in the last … continue reading
JetBrains, a company responsible for creating IDEs for multiple programming languages, today announced the addition of taint analysis to Qodana. This feature is available for PHP developers in the Early Preview, and the company has plans to add more languages soon. Qodana launched back in 2021 and offers users a universal code quality platform that … continue reading
The continuous deployment company Armory today unveiled multiple plugins for Spinnaker, the open-source and multi-cloud continuous deployment tool, that are intended to offer Spinnaker users more speed and security. According to Armory, these plugins work to solve the technical and cost challenges that the Spinnaker platform presents when managing the number of accounts, configurations, credentials, … continue reading
Software engineering leaders need to foster collaboration with site reliability engineers (SRE) in order to scale unplanned work and improve customer experience. Software engineering teams tend to focus on releasing new product features quickly, which causes them to not always prioritize the reliability of new features. Gartner predicts that by 2027, 75% of enterprises will … continue reading
Google prides itself on its initiatives regarding security in the Android ecosystem. Over the past year it has made a lot of strides, and now the company is detailing its plans for the upcoming year. One of the areas for improvement is opening up spaces for developers to support each other. It has opened up … continue reading
The new ability to see datasets in search results is aimed at helping scientific research, business analysis, or public policy creators get access to data quickly, according to Natasha Noy, research scientist, and Omar Benjelloun, software engineer at Google Research in a blog post. Google search engine users can click on any of the top … continue reading
GrapeCity, a global provider of award-winning enterprise software development tools, is pleased to announce the Wijmo 2022 v2 release. This latest release includes support for Angular 14, React 18, and a few enhancements to FlexGrid, FlexChart, and more. Wijmo 2022 v2 is now available as an upgrade for existing customers and a download for new … continue reading
