Visual Studio is Microsoft’s integrated development environment (IDE) that is used by developers all around the world. According to Stack Overflow’s 2022 development survey, 32% of developers preferred Visual Studio as their IDE, coming in second to the more lightweight IDE Visual Studio Code, which was used by 74% of respondents. Given its popularity, we’re … continue reading
The deployment automation company Octopus Deploy today announced the general availability of GitHub Actions for Octopus Deploy v2. This update is intended to support the company’s deployment automation for GitHub Action workflows. With this users gain the ability to incorporate build information into deployment pipelines with GitHub’s introduction of a new push-build-information-action. This lets users … continue reading
It can be argued that the only constant in the technology field is change. With the continuous advancements being made in cloud computing along with the evolution of the development process, the ability to keep up with the newest skills is an essential part of a developer’s job. That being said, an essential part of … continue reading
(First of two parts) Several weeks ago, a customer of the Broadcom Service Virtualization solution posed the following question: “Now that we’re moving to the cloud, do we still need Service Virtualization?” The question struck me as odd. My sense is that this confusion probably stemmed from the misperception that, since cloud environments can be … continue reading
New promising programming languages are popping up constantly. Some do rather successfully – take Rust and Go as popular success stories. And yet, despite the excitement around new languages, it’s still the tried and true older languages that rank at the top of survey lists when it comes to what is most in use: Java, … continue reading
The latest issue of SD Times is now available. This issue features a look into Ford’s cloud-native transformation, how developer managers are training their teams on new skills, and what’s new in Visual Studio 2022. … continue reading
The cloud database platform company Couchbase today announced several new updates to its database-as-a-service, Couchbase Capella. According to the company, these enhancements are inspired by the technologies already widely used by developers to build modern applications. The company stated that this sense of familiarity is intended to help boost productivity and allow developers to more … continue reading
Stargate is a data API gateway built on top of Apache Cassandra. The API gateway was created as a way to let developers work in frameworks and structures familiar to them without having to know all the particulars of the underlying database. Stargate v2 is now generally available with more flexible deployments and makes it … continue reading
The team at Amazon today announced Neptune Serverless to help organizations scale automatically as queries and workloads change, working to adjust capacity in increments to provide the correct amount of database resources that an application needs. According to Amazon, this service can be used for development, test, and production workloads as well as to improve … continue reading
Several new product releases and updates were announced as KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2022 continued today both in person and virtually. Hazelcast announces new data streaming capabilities Hazelcast today announced new capabilities that aim to enable enterprises to join several streams of live data as well as merge them with large volumes of stored data in … continue reading
The resilience of the Cloud Native community was emphasized this morning as Priyanka Sharma, executive director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) gave the Keynote Address and opening remarks at KubeCon CloudNativeCon North America 2022. She began her talk by applauding the ways in which the community has continued to thrive despite the tumultuous … continue reading
Google announced the public preview of AppSheet databases, a built-in database for citizen developers to easily and securely manage their data using AppSheet. This extends the functionality of Google’s AppSheet by allowing users to create and manage databases within the AppSheet platform, enabling them to keep track of their data and making it possible to … continue reading
The team at Vercel, the platform for frontend developers, today introduced Next.js 13 in order to provide developers with heightened levels of flexibility and customization without the restrictions of technical limits. With this, users gain access to a redesigned approach to website layouts, data-fetching, and server-rendering. According to Vercel, Next.js 13 works to ship less … continue reading
More exciting new releases and product updates were revealed today as KubeCon 2022 continues. GitLab announces new Security and Governance updates GitLab today announced new enhancements to its Security and Governance solution which aims to help organizations integrate security and compliance in every step of the software development lifecycle as well as secure their software … continue reading
