Securing software supply chains has been a big focus of the Biden administration. In May 2021 President Joe Biden signed an executive order to improve cybersecurity, and since then it has made progress in providing guidance to companies on how to actually meet these cybersecurity goals. Now the U.S. federal Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency … continue reading
Google wants to help developers convert more users from their Play Store listings, and thus is updating the Google Play Store Listing Certificate program. The certificate program is a self-paced training course that teaches mobile marketing best practices. It was first introduced in 2021. The latest update adds content related to custom store listings (CSLs) … continue reading
Only 23% of development teams are actually implementing AI today in their software development life cycle. This is according to GitLab’s State of AI in Software Development report, which surveyed over 1,000 DevSecOps professionals in June 2023. Despite low adoption now, when you add in the number of teams planning to use AI, that number … continue reading
Microsoft has announced the release of the latest version of Windows Community Toolkit, which is a collection of functions, controls, and app services that demonstrate common developer tasks for building apps in Windows 10 and 11. According to the company, this Windows Community Toolkit v8.0 is a complete rework of the toolkit. Previously, there were … continue reading
WebAssembly has grown far beyond its original intent of being used to develop web applications, and can now be found in many corners of the technology landscape. Starting today and continuing tomorrow, many technologists are gathering in Bellevue, Washington for WasmCon to learn more about the technology and hear talks from industry experts. The results … continue reading
The collaborative coding company Codezero today announced the public beta for version 2.0 of its platform. Codezero enables developers to spin up a new Kubernetes cluster and then debug and test it in a collaborative environment. According to the company, the platform helps to create new levels of visibility and interaction among development teams. “Simply … continue reading
Microsoft has announced it is ending support for the Visual Studio for Mac IDE. Instead, the company will focus its efforts on improving the main Visual Studio application, which can be accessed on Mac, and any operating system, through Microsoft Dev Box. “While the decision has been made to retire Visual Studio for Mac, we … continue reading
The world of development is constantly changing, and thus developers are constantly needing to add to their education and upskill. To make this upskilling easier, there is an open-source collection of guides to learn about specific technologies. Called Developer Roadmaps, the collection includes interactive roadmaps, guides, and other educational content. It contains guides for over … continue reading
The company announced ReadyNow Orchestrator (RNO), which is a new feature that reduces Java warmup time and uses demand to determine cloud compute capacity. “When a JVM wakes up, we believe it spends too much time profiling application usage to get the best optimizations – so we solved that when we first introduced ReadyNow. Now, … continue reading
Detected Risks can help SREs find and fix common hidden risks that could impact reliability. It flags things that could potentially be failure points, and offers recommendations on how to resolve them. According to Gremlin, the hope with this new solution is that it empowers companies to transition from “reactive problem-solving to proactive risk mitigation.” … continue reading
Google Cloud Next kicked off today, with the company highlighting the progress it’s made over the past year as well as showcasing some of its new offerings. “We are in an entirely new era of digital transformation, fueled by gen AI. This technology is already improving how businesses operate and how humans interact with one … continue reading
Notary, the CNCF project that provides cross-industry standards for supply chain security, has announced a major release. This brings both the Notary Project and Notation Project to version 1.0.0. Notation is a sub-project that implements Notary specifications. Included in this release are an OCI signature specification, OCI COSE signature envelope, OCI JWS signature envelope, OCI … continue reading
