As software development undergoes a seismic shift with GenAI at the forefront, testing, quality assurance, and observability are being transformed in unprecedented ways. These advancements are driving new levels of automation and efficiencies, while challenging traditional methodologies and long-held assumptions about speed, adaptability, and innovation. As GenAI automates routine tasks and enables smarter decision-making, it … continue reading
JetBrains has released its annual State of Developer Ecosystem report, highlighting the trends across software development. This year the report includes a new section called the Language Promise Index, which ranks languages by growth, stability, and adoption willingness. Across the board since 2017, JavaScript has topped the list, with 61% of users programming in that … continue reading
Google has announced the launch of the latest model in the Gemini family, as well as a new coding agent for developers called Jules. Gemini comes in two different model variants, with Flash balancing performance with speed and Pro optimizing for performance. The newest model, Gemini 2.0 Flash, is twice as fast as Gemini 1.5 … continue reading
OpenSilver 3.1 has been released, bringing new features to the open source framework for building web apps using .NET. These include a drag-and-drop XAML designer for VS code, a more modern UI theme, expanded support for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) features, and full compatibility with .NET 9. The new drag-and-drop XAML designer in VS Code … continue reading
The data information and analytics company LexisNexis today announced the launch of Nexis Data+, a new API that provides access to corporate, legal, financial, and compliance data, as well as generative AI-approved licensed news content. Developers and data analysts will be able to integrate that data into their existing tools, platforms, AI models, and workflows … continue reading
Change is necessary for growth in software engineering organizations, but adapting to change requires time, energy and resources that can detract from a focus on delivering value. While a certain degree of change is essential, excessive change can lead to change fatigue among developers. Change fatigue is a negative response to change and can include … continue reading
OpenAI has announced the release of its Usage API, which provides developers with insights into activity across the OpenAI API, allowing them to better track costs. Developers can monitor token usage by the minute, hour, or day, and filter usage by invoice line item, API key, project ID, user ID, model, and more. The Usage … continue reading
The number of security challenges companies are facing continue to grow, but organizations are beginning to display signs of “AppSec exhaustion,” or decreased engagement in security practices. This is according to Snyk’s new State of Open Source report, which found that dependency tracking and code ship frequency has remained largely unchanged since last year. There … continue reading
Piling on to the list of announcements from Amazon at AWS re:Invent, the company announced Amazon Nova, a family of foundation models that promise “frontier intelligence and industry leading price performance.” They can handle typical generative AI tasks, such as analyzing documents and videos, understanding charts, generating video content, or building advanced AI agents. “Whether … continue reading
At AWS re:Invent today, Amazon announced updates to its generative AI assistant for software developers, Amazon Q Developer. There are three new agents that automate unit testing, documentation, and code reviews. Developers can make it generate a test by typing “/test” in the chat window or highlighting a specific block of code to test. It … continue reading
The AI platform Clarifai is attempting to make it easier for companies to leverage their existing cloud and hardware investments for AI. Clarifai already offers tools to assist throughout the whole AI lifecycle, including data labeling, training, evaluation, workflows, and feedback. Now in public preview, Compute Orchestration provides companies with a single control plane for … continue reading
At AWS re:Invent, Amazon announced a number of new capabilities related to observability to help developers gain more visibility into their applications. The company is introducing enhanced observability capabilities for container workloads running on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). According to AWS, this announcement ties in with Container Insights, which was a capability introduced … continue reading
At AWS re:Invent, Amazon announced a number of new capabilities for generative AI and machine learning. New evaluations for Amazon Bedrock Two new evaluation capabilities have been added to Amazon Bedrock, which is the company’s platform for building generative AI applications using foundation models. Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now offer support for RAG evaluation (still … continue reading
The post-pandemic “new normal” radically reshaped the workplace with an emphasis on flexibility, hybrid or remote working, and digital rather than face-to-face interactions. Now the dust has settled, 2024 is arguably the first full year we’ll see the impact of this recalibration and the impact AI and automation will have on how we work. But … continue reading
