Red Hat today reveals several new features designed to boost developer productivity while giving them the tools they require to build next-generation applications for modern software and infrastructure architectures. The company introduced OpenShift.io, a development environment service for building cloud-native applications. Teams using OpenShift.io can work together to assign work and create applications built with … continue reading
Making what it says is the first major upgrade to a Java compiler in 20 years, Azul Systems today is launching Falcon, a new just-in-time compiler that leverages LLVM technology to improve performance of Java applications. Scott Sellers, CEO of Azul, said the Falcon compiler used inside the company’s Zing 17.03 Java runtime replaces the … continue reading
Getting to cloud today is not difficult. If you’re an individual looking to spin up a test environment in the cloud, for instance, the barrier to entry is quite low. But when you have an application that calls on numerous services to perform, and allows access to multiple users in multiple roles – not to … continue reading
The way organizations build software has changed dramatically. The software development lifecycle is morphing from a series of independent steps – gather requirements, write code, test code, build, fix, build, and ultimately deploy to production — into a series of interconnected, continuous loops that bring all stakeholders in from beginning to end. Why has this … continue reading
To build a complete Internet of Things solution, one would need hardware, different types of software, cloud infrastructure and an ecosystem of vendors for the task. The Eclipse Foundation today is releasing Eclipse IoT Open Testbeds, which demonstrate how open-source software is used to create these solutions. “The industry really needs a showcase of how … continue reading
A lot has been written about the mythical developer. Loner. Only comes out at night, when the world is dark and quiet. Codes for a living and then, as a hobby, just for kicks, codes some more. A recent survey of developers and their habits was released last month by Stack Overflow, and some of … continue reading
Smaller development teams produce software that has the highest structural quality, while teams of 20 or more create software of poor structural quality. That is according to the 2017 CRASH Report on the global health of software released late last month. The report bases structural quality on five characteristics: robustness, security, performance efficiency, changeability and … continue reading
Test automation is critical for organizations looking to get faster and better at delivering quality software. However, as with many issues surrounding technology, just because you can doesn’t mean you should. Phil Soffer has spent the last 20 years developing and shipping software, as a developer, marketer and now CEO of crowdsource testing company test IO. … continue reading
Crowdsourced testing company test IO today released enhancements to its platform to accommodate organizations doing continuous delivery of software. “The agile movement is a reaction to development that was complex, late and wrong for the user when it shipped,” said Phil Soffer, test IO CEO. The company was founded in Germany in 2011 to provide … continue reading
Tools create silos between teams. But when an organization has seamless software that brings together every team in an organization, those silos collapse. That is what Atlassian is looking to do with today’s release of Trello Power-Ups, add-ins that bridge the company’s JIRA Cloud, BitBucket Cloud and Confluence Cloud tools to enable teams to work … continue reading
Developers highly value jobs within organizations that provide ongoing learning and professional growth, even more than they value compensation, according to the annual Stack Overflow Developer Survey report released today. Just over half of the respondents, though, said they believe they are underpaid. The report, based on responses from more than 64,000 developers in 213 … continue reading
Melissa has dropped the ‘Data’ from its name, but wants to leverage its enormous data store to grow into other areas, such as compliance and anti-money laundering efforts. Positioned as a data superstore when it launched 10 years ago, Melissa today wants to be known as “a provider of global intelligence,” according to Greg Brown, … continue reading
