Microsoft Azure has been showing faster growth than any other cloud provider over the last few years, and its vast ecosystem of partnerships and integrations continually make it an appealing platform for existing and prospective customers. The platform currently stands as the second largest cloud offering in the world with 21% market share, following AWS’s … continue reading
Last month, the Linux kernel turned 30. If you’re someone who’s been immersed in the Linux world since Y2K like me, it may feel a bit surreal that so much time has passed since the kernel’s inception. As a training architect at A Cloud Guru (ACG), I teach courses about all things Linux and specialize … continue reading
The team at Google recently announced the first production release of Flutter support for Windows as an app target. This comes as an expansion to Flutter, the cross-platform UI development kit, enabling Windows developers to experience the same productivity benefits as mobile developers. With this, Flutter has been tailored specifically for Windows applications, combining a … continue reading
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has been a useful tool for many organizations. Despite the initial fear that it would grow to take over the jobs of developers, many have come to see that RPA and automation only function well when they work in tandem with developers. According to Yishai Beeri, growth technologies lead at LinearB, … continue reading
For a long time, security teams have been able to mostly rely on the safety of a security perimeter, but with things like IoT, embedded development, and now remote and hybrid work, this notion of a defensible perimeter is totally gone. Having all of these connected devices that don’t live under one network expands the … continue reading
The following is a listing of DevSecOps tool providers, along with a brief description of their offerings. Bridgecrew by Prisma Cloud automates security from code to cloud. By embedding earlier in the DevOps lifecycle, Bridgecrew enables developers to write secure code without slowing them down. In addition to its DevSecOps tools and integrations, Bridgecrew’s platform … continue reading
We asked these tool providers to share more information on how their solutions help companies with security in remote or hybrid settings. Their responses are below. Guy Eisenkot, VP of product and co-founder of Bridgecrew by Prisma Cloud As hybrid work environments and cloud infrastructure environments become the norm, organizations’ attack surfaces are only getting … continue reading
The widely used JavaScript package manager npm is the latest technology to become closely examined by the security community after it was discovered that attackers were using it for malicious purposes. Security company WhiteSource has detected over 1,300 malicious npm packages and has released a threat report detailing its findings. The malware detected was being … continue reading
The latest issue of SD Times is now available. This issue features a look at how RPA is freeing up developers from having to do mundane tasks, Microsoft’s all-inclusive cloud experience, and how to successfully implement citizen development. … continue reading
Microsoft recently announced that the first preview release of Windows Terminal of 2022 is here. Interested users can install Windows Terminal and Windows Terminal Preview from the Microsoft Store or from the GitHub repository. With this release, the minimum supported version of Windows 10 for Windows Terminal 1.13+ is now 19041 (20H1). The new features … continue reading
Apache Iceberg is an open table format for datasets that can be used with compute engines like Spark, Trino, PrestoDB, Flink, and Hive. It has a lot of failsafes in place to ensure that users don’t accidentally mess up a table with a wrong command. Its schema evolution supports tasks like add, drop, update, or … continue reading
Perforce Software, provider of solutions that help enterprises with productivity, visibility, and scaling through the software development lifecycle, today announced a new feature in BlazeMeter, BlazeMeter Test Data. With this addition, testers and developers can build synthetic test data for functional performance tests and virtual services. This test data can then be used with several … continue reading
OpenSSF announced the Alpha-Omega Project to improve the security posture of open-source software by working together with software security experts. Microsoft and Google are supporting the project, which aims to improve global OSS supply chain security by working with project maintainers to systematically look for new, as-yet-undiscovered vulnerabilities in open source code with a $5 … continue reading
Contrast Security has announced that it is entering into a partnership with GitHub. With this comes the availability of Contrast Security’s suite of GitHub Actions that simplifies the process for developers to deliver code with no security vulnerabilities. Contrast’s GitHub Actions include four features that work to embed security into existing value streams. These actions … continue reading
