UserTesting has announced the latest release of its platform that helps developers gain insights into their customer base. The platform now offers branching logic, which allows developers to create surveys that adapt questions based on responses to previous questions. Image tasks and matrix questions have also now been added as new question types in surveys, … continue reading
The advent of DevOps, cloud-native computing, API use and now AI have made creating software way more complex for developers. These factors have also impacted the developers’ experience and productivity – and how productivity is measured. No longer do software engineers simply write code and run some tests. Now, they have to manage API integration … continue reading
OpenText is releasing a new static application security testing (SAST) tool called Fortify Aviator designed to change the way developers manage application security. Fortify Aviator uses AI to provide intelligent code fix suggestions based on analysis of the existing codebase, which significantly reduces the time developers need to spend on remediating issues. According to the … continue reading
Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to maintain its prevalence in business, with the latest analyst figures projecting the economic impact of AI to have reached between $2.6 trillion and $4.4 trillion annually. However, advances in the development and deployment of AI technologies continue to raise significant ethical concerns such as bias, privacy invasion and disinformation. These concerns … continue reading
GraphRAG is an open source research project out of Microsoft for creating knowledge graphs from datasets that can be used in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). RAG is an approach in which data is fed into an LLM to give more accurate responses. For instance, a company might use RAG to be able to use its own … continue reading
Yesterday Microsoft announced that it was giving up its observer board seat at OpenAI, a company it has invested over $10 billion in and whose AI models are heavily integrated across the Microsoft product line. Microsoft’s board seat was a nonvoting seat, meaning they were only on it to observe what the board was doing. The … continue reading
Developers today are responsible for a lot more than the developers of 10 years ago were. Not only do they write code, but they’re managing quality, security, incidents, observability, infrastructure, and more. This has led to a lot of tool sprawl in development environments. Developers need an IDE to write the code, an incident management … continue reading
Amazon hosted its annual AWS Summit today in NYC where it announced several updates related to its generative AI offerings. Here are the highlights from today’s event: AWS App Studio now in preview AWS App Studio is a no-code platform for building applications using generative AI, without having to have any software development knowledge. For … continue reading
Many development teams are beginning to experiment with how they can use AI to benefit their efficiency, but in order to have a successful implementation, they need to have ways to assess that their investment in AI is actually providing value proportional to that investment. A recent Gartner survey from May of this year said … continue reading
Anthropic’s developer Console now allows developers to generate, test, and evaluate AI prompts, allowing them to ultimately improve response quality. Claude 3.5 Sonnet introduced a built-in prompt generator that allows a user to describe a task and have Claude convert it into a high-quality prompt. For example, they could describe that they need to triage … continue reading
Userware, the company behind OpenSilver, an open-source .NET UI framework, have announced the release of OpenSilver 3.0. The update introduces an AI-based UI editor (still in preview), a drag-and-drop UI designer, and an online XAML designer. The new AI-powered UI editor will allow developers to create applications or make changes to specific UI elements using … continue reading
Until about two years ago, many enterprises were experimenting with isolated proofs of concept or managing limited AI projects, with results that often had little impact on the company’s overall financial or operational performance. Few companies were making big bets on AI, and even fewer executive leaders lost their jobs when AI initiatives didn’t pan … continue reading
Boomi is helping companies more easily discover, manage, and govern all of their APIs with the launch of the Boomi API Control Plane. This new offering utilizes technology gained from Boomi’s recent acquisition of the federated API management company APIIDA. According to Boomi, organizations can sometimes have “shadow APIs,” which are APIs that exist outside … continue reading
Though this is technically a “Buyer’s Guide” by SD Times terminology, let’s preface this article by remembering that buying a piece of software isn’t the key to fixing all security issues. If there was some magical security solution that could be installed to instantly fix all security problems, we wouldn’t be seeing a year-over-year increase … continue reading
