The following is a listing of Agile tool providers, along with a brief description of their offerings. ValueOps by Broadcom Software delivers on the promise of value stream management (VSM) as the first to combine business and investment-oriented product management with advanced, operationally-focused agile planning and management capabilities. The integration of Broadcom’s proven Clarity and … continue reading
Many companies have been grappling with a labor shortage at some point over the last year, whether short or long term, due to the Great Resignation. This phenomenon continues, with many workers hopping jobs to find better offers elsewhere. On top of that, all signs seem to be pointing to a recession in the US … continue reading
Pipelines are an important part of the Jenkins ecosystem for CI/CD, and one important iteration of the pipeline concept is called the declarative pipeline. SD Times, in partnership with CloudBees, recently hosted a webinar called “Modernize Your Pipelines with Best Practices Built-In,” to talk about the benefits of these. But to understand why CloudBees, which … continue reading
Amazon is hosting its Alexa Live 2022 conference for developers building skills, which are sort of like applications, for Alexa-powered smart home devices. According to Amazon, there are hundreds of millions of Alexa-enabled devices in use, and building skills for Alexa provides developers with a good opportunity to engage with those customers in new ways. … continue reading
Microsoft has made its monthly update for Java in Visual Studio Code. This update includes built-in support for the Lombok library, drag and drop support, an exclusion list for inlay hints, and more. Some Visual Studio Code users had been reporting to Microsoft that when they have Lombok dependencies in their projects, some extensions wouldn’t … continue reading
When you hear about the impacts of not protecting your application, you most often think of the financial loss. It’s no wonder though: the average cost of vulnerabilities is about $13 million dollars, spread across fines, the cost of remediation, and the cost of preventing data leakage. It’s not even factoring in the cost of … continue reading
Unit testing company Typemock has announced the release of the latest version of its unit testing solution for .NET: Isolator 9.1. This latest version includes support for .NET Core and .NET Framework. According to the company, this will help support companies working with both new and legacy code in their environment. Isolator 9.1 also integrated … continue reading
ScyllaDB has announced the latest release of its NoSQL database. It has launched the fifth generation of the database, ScyllaDB V, and the first iteration of this new generation is ScyllaDB 5.0. According to the company, generation I focused on performance, II focused on parity with Apache Cassandra, III focused on moving ScyllaDB into the … continue reading
Microsoft has announced that it made several performance improvements in Visual Studio 2022 in the 17.3 release. Mainly these enhancements relate to Git branch switching and C++. Some users may have previously experienced delays when switching branches, or had to wait for projects to reload after switching branches. According to Microsoft, the process of switching … continue reading
Researchers at Meta AI have come up with a model that can help verify citations on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is often the first stop when someone is looking for information online, but the validity of that information is all dependent on where it is being sourced from. According to the researchers, volunteers verify the citations, but … continue reading
Getting a computer science degree from a four-year university used to be the only pathway into a high-paying tech job, but those days are over. Coding bootcamps are now just as viable an option for many jobs. It seems developers are catching on to this, because in the most recent Stack Overflow Developer Survey, 70% … continue reading
Open Source Hub (OSH) is a new open source project from code visibility company CodeSee. Previously it existed as OSS Port, but with the new name comes several updates and changes to the platform. Similar to OSS Port, OSH is a development community for finding, exploring, and contributing to open source projects. According to CodeSee, … continue reading
