SmartBear, a leading provider of software quality and visibility solutions, has launched two innovations that fundamentally change how both API and functional tests are performed, integrating SmartBear HaloAI, trusted AI-driven technology, and marking a significant step forward in the company’s AI strategy. GenAI technology, known for automating repetitive and error-prone tasks, enhances efficiency and reduces manual intervention, revolutionizing traditional software … continue reading
The user-friendly graphic design tool Canva is launching Connect APIs, which will allow developers to more tightly integrate Canva with other platforms or data sources, such as Slack or Salesforce. This news comes near the one year anniversary of the Canva Developer Platform, which allows developers to build apps for Canva. The Connect API portfolio … continue reading
Companies who follow ethical AI practices when developing their AI offerings may gain a competitive advantage from doing so. According to Twilio’s State of Personalization Report, 89% of survey respondents believe that ethical use of AI is a potential business advantage. Another recent Twilio survey found that 49% said they were more likely to trust … continue reading
Kobiton, the mobile testing leader, announces that its mobile app testing platform now supports the beta version of iOS 18. Apple announced the new operating system at its Worldwide Developer Conference in Cupertino last week. Kobiton’s support for iOS 18 is a big benefit to developers who want to test their apps on the new … continue reading
Redgate Software, the end-to-end Database DevOps solution provider, today announced the successful acquisition of DB-Engines, a valued, independent source of objective data in the database management systems market. This strategic acquisition reflects Redgate’s commitment to providing the database community with unparalleled content, events, community websites, and market insights, with an increasing focus on supporting multiple database platforms. DB-Engines … continue reading
SurrealDB, the ultimate multi-model database, today announced a $20 million investment round led by FirstMark and Georgian with participation from Crew Capital and Alumni Ventures. This latest round of funding brings SurrealDB’s total to $26 million. In addition, the company has announced the beta launch of Surreal Cloud. Interested parties can sign up now to … continue reading
Writing code is mentally intensive work, and just like if someone were working a physically demanding job and their body felt exhausted afterwards, mental work can be exhausting mentally. Many knowledge workers report experiencing “cognitive fatigue” after a number of hours, after which point their ability to do tasks significantly drops. While most workers work … continue reading
NVIDIA has announced a new solution, NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud Sensor RTX, that can simulate physical sensors so that developers can work on software for autonomous machines, such as vehicles, humanoids, industrial manipulators, mobile robots and more, in test environments. The new offering enables developers to test sensor perception and other related AI software in a … continue reading
Are your developers on PagerDuty? That’s the core question, and for most teams the answer is emphatically “yes.” This is a huge change from a few years ago when, unless you did not have DevOps or SRE teams, the answer was a resounding “no.” So, what’s changed? A long-term trend is happening across large and … continue reading
Unity Catalog is an open source governance catalog for data and AI, developed by Databricks and open sourced earlier this week at the company’s Data + AI Summit. Companies can use it to govern structured and unstructured data, and machine learning models, notebooks, dashboards, and files. It offers interoperability with any data format and compute … continue reading
The days where engineers only take orders from higher ups and complete the tasks they are told to do may be over. In today’s modern development world, software engineers are having a much more involved role in business strategy. According to Jellyfish’s 2024 State of Engineering Management report, 90% of respondents said their engineering teams … continue reading
The Rust Foundation has announced the launch of a new sub-group dedicated to use of the Rust language in safety-critical software, which it defines as “systems whose failure can impact human life or cause severe environmental or property harm.” The Safety-Critical Rust Consortium was formed by a number of organizations working together alongside the Rust … continue reading
