Testing company Applitools has announced the release of Native Mobile Grid, which is an AI-powered mobile testing solution. It allows for automated testing of both iOS and Android apps. According to Applitools, mobile applications have been historically difficult, expensive, and time-consuming to test. Part of this is because mobile devices can be expensive to own … continue reading
Observability company Rookout has announced the release of a new debugging experience for serverless applications. According to the company, even experienced developers have difficulty debugging ephemeral serverless applications. It believes that this new solution will help developers overcome this pain point. “Traditional APM tools can highlight and alert on problematic areas within serverless applications – … continue reading
The visual search engine Pinterest has launched an expansion to its API suite with new changes to provide open access to the community. Previously there was a revenue minimum that developers needed to meet in order to access the API and that requirement has been eliminated. Pinterest API v5 provides a single API for many … continue reading
Gartner predicts that by 2026, 80% of technology products will be created by people not categorized as technology professionals. The reasons for this have been discussed at length for some time now, and companies are now seeing the value in these tools as a way to accelerate development. According to Jason Beres, SVP of developer … continue reading
Google is introducing policy changes to Google Play to better protect Android users. New target level API requirements will prevent users from installing apps that don’t have the latest privacy and security features. Beginning on November 1, 2022, existing apps that don’t target an API level that is within two years of the most recent … continue reading
In late 2021, a vulnerability was detected in the Java logging package Log4j, which is the most popular framework for logging in Java. It is used in millions of applications. Not only that, but it is used as a dependency in over 7,000 open-source projects, according to research from software security company Sonatype. Given the … continue reading
The world has gone through a lot of changes over the past two years, and the technical interview process is just another thing that had to change due to COVID-19. Rather than going into an office and doing a whiteboard interview where you are literally writing code, companies had to shift tactics to be able … continue reading
GitHub Copilot, which is a solution that uses AI to make code suggestions to developers, is now available in Visual Studio 2022. The solution first launched as a technical preview last June, and according to GitHub, Visual Studio 2022 was the most requested IDE by the community. The solution makes suggestions to developers as they … continue reading
Continuous deployment orchestration provider Octopus Deploy has announced the release of its configuration as code feature as part of its 2022.01 release According to the company, typically DevOps engineers don’t have visibility into their CI/CD pipeline configurations, preventing them from adding new features to that configuration. Many of the available “as code” implementations often compromise … continue reading
The metaverse has been one of the industry’s latest buzzwords over the past few months, but recognizing the need to figure out metaverse security early on, Microsoft has released some guidelines. The company compared this stage of the metaverse to the early days of the web. The web made it easy for anyone to set … continue reading
The database company PlanetScale announced a new Rewind feature that will allow developers to roll back changes to data migrations to prevent downtime or data loss. According to the company, it’s possible to make a schema change to a database that causes unexpected issues like downtime or a full-scale outage. Any data that gets added … continue reading
Observability company Catchpoint has announced its newest user experience monitoring platform, Catchpoint Symphony. This new platform was designed based on input from hundreds of users and usability studies. According to Catchpoint, Symphony is intuitive to use, which makes it easy to get started with. It provides a common toolset with simplified workloads. Customers can use … continue reading
