Developer security company Snyk today announced a $196.5 million Series G investment. The round was led by Qatar Investment Authority with participation from new investors Evolution Equity Partners, G Squared, and Irving Investors as well as existing investors boldstart ventures, Sands Capital, and Tiger Global. According to the company, this comes after a year of … continue reading
Apache Cassandra 4.1 is now available with updates to improve ease of use. Apache Cassandra is a distributed NoSQL database, and is an open-source project under the Apache Software Foundation. The 4.1 release is the first version that follows the new yearly release cycle that was implemented last year. The release will be supported for … continue reading
Contrast Security launched its developer-focused education program Contrast Security Learning Hub and the Contrast Community forum to broaden access to secure coding practices. The learning hub is a free program that provides interactive lessons on vulnerabilities across different languages and ecosystems. The program covers existing OWASP topics and JavaScript, Java, .NET, and Node.js programming languages. … continue reading
The low-code platform Creatio has announced updates to its platform that will help users create apps even more quickly than they could have before. The latest version includes a new composable architecture, which provides users with a library of ready-to-use components. All of the components are pluggable, replaceable, and reusable, which significantly reduces the amount … continue reading
How developer-friendly is your organization’s security program? The answer is as important as ever in today’s digital economy. High-performing organizations empower developers with tools, training and resources to do high-quality work, with security top of mind. This results in the ability to build secure applications quickly that consistently meet expectations and mitigate risk. As we … continue reading
The team at the cloud native company TriggerMesh has announced the Shaker project, an open-source alternative to AWS EventBridge. Shaker offers users several new capabilities, including tmctl, the new TriggerMesh CLI that allows for the quick building of event flows on a laptop with Docker; the new TriggerMesh Broker, either in-memory or backed by Redis … continue reading
JetBrains has announced the first public preview for Qodana Cloud, which is a cloud based extension of the code quality platform Qodana. According to the company, Qodana Cloud collects data from Qodana linters and gathers them in a single place, which allows developers to dive deeper into particular issues. JetBrains explained that having to switch … continue reading
The low-code DevOps company Copado is launching a new marketplace to help companies find pre-built solutions from itself, its partners, and the Copado community. These solutions can be used to extend the features of Copado’s DevOps platform for Salesforce. Companies can benefit from the existing expertise of experts who have already solved DevOps challenges and … continue reading
Security and value emerged as two important aspects of DevOps as 2022 unfolded. Yet, with as much success as organizations have achieved implementing their own DevOps strategies, many others struggled to make it work for them. Part of the struggle is an outgrowth of the “shift left” strategy advocated in the DevOps space, leaving developers … continue reading
SQL database company Yugabyte has announced a number of enhancements across its portfolio to provide customers with a database that suits the demands of modern applications. YugabyteDB 2.17 was released with new APIs for xCluster, which will help support planned and unplanned failovers to help companies meet business continuity goals. The database now offers a … continue reading
The global customer relationship management (CRM) company, Salesforce, today announced that Genie Customer Data Cloud, the CRM data cloud, is now powered by Tableau. With this, businesses are enabled to better understand and unlock important user data as well as deliver actionable insights at scale, in real time. According to Salesforce, this allows any customer … continue reading
1Password, the human-centric security and privacy company, today announced a solution intended to help companies improve the way that they manage and secure infrastructure secrets throughout the development lifecycle. According to 1Password, the new features, including the CI/CD integrations and 1Password Shell Plugins, offer developers the opportunity to secure their code by managing keys, credentials, … continue reading
When it comes to succeeding with digital initiatives and building high-performing software teams, it is important to deliver top-notch developer experience. A superior developer experience helps attract and retain talented developers. Gartner’s 2021 Software Engineering Leader Survey shows that hiring, developing, and retaining talent ranks in the top three challenges for 38% of software engineering … continue reading
Microsoft has had a bit of a year in terms of providing developers with the tools they need to succeed. A lot of the updates that Microsoft has made in the last 12 months have been developer-focused, including .NET 7, .NET MAUI, and Visual Studio updates. .NET 7 was released just last month. When the … continue reading
