The autonomous digital enterprise solution provider BMC announced several new innovations and integrations within the BMC Automated Mainframe Intelligence and BMC Compuware portfolios to harden mainframe security. The update provides automated detection and response capabilities, which allow weaknesses and malicious activity to be discovered before a compromise occurs. With the new integrations, developers now have … continue reading
There is a potential train wreck out there. According to the trade press and peer-reviewed journals alike, systems development is in trouble. The much revered, and equally reviled, Standish Group’s Chaos Report says that only about 30% of systems development projects succeed, 20% outright fail or are cancelled, and around 50% hobble along in some … continue reading
Previous reports of the Java community found that developers were still mainly using Java 8 and didn’t adopt newer versions, but according to Snyk’s JVM Ecosystem Report 2021, that is starting to change. This year, 61.5% of respondents are using Java 11 somewhere in production, and almost 12% are using the latest release, which was … continue reading
Some of the major highlights of the TypeScript 4.4 beta are control flow analysis of aliased conditions, symbol and template string pattern index signatures and more. With control flow analysis of aliased conditions enabled, developers don’t have to convince TypeScript of a variable’s type whenever it is used because the type-checker leverages something called control … continue reading
In this two part series, we explore the two sides of testing: automated and manual. In this article, we examine why automated testing should be done. To read the other side of the argument, go here. In today’s business environment, stakeholders rely on their enterprise applications to work quickly and efficiently, with absolutely no downtime. … continue reading
In this two part series, we explore the two sides of testing: automated and manual. In this article, we examine why manual testing should be done. To read the other side of the argument, go here. In the sprint to keep a competitive edge during digital transformation, organizations are optimizing and updating how they build … continue reading
Developers today more than ever are facing the challenge of outside attackers infiltrating their apps. Whether the app is brought to life using experienced professional developers or low-code developers, in today’s digital zeitgeist, extra protection is always essential. App security is an important aspect of the development process that can too often be overlooked by … continue reading
The .NET Object Allocation Tool received new features and a significant performance boost as of the Visual Studio 16.10 release. The tool now has support for Source Link which lets the tool pull down source files, showing where allocations are occurring even when they are not in your code. Search now has auto-complete suggestions to … continue reading
The benefits of microservices have been touted for years, and their popularity is clear when you consider the explosion in use of technologies, such as Kubernetes, over the last few years. It seems that based on the number of successful implementations, that popularity is deserved. For example, according to a 2020 survey by O’Reilly, 92% … continue reading
The Scorecards project is an automated security tool that produces a “risk score” for open-source projects that just reached version 2 yesterday. The new version adds new security checks, a scaled up number of projects being scored and data has been made easily accessible for analysis. It was created last fall by the Google Open … continue reading
With the increasing complexity of cloud-native applications, observability is the key to ensuring that your company can deliver high-quality products and services. In a recent SD Times Live! webinar, Chris Lentricchia, offering manager at Instana, explained that there have been three main shifts over the past few years in the way companies do observability. These … continue reading
BigPanda is a event correlation and automation platform powered by AIOps to help IT operations, network operations, DevOps and SRE teams detect, prevent and resolve outages. The platform prevents incidents from escalating into outages, enables rapid incident and outage resolution with automated root cause analysis, and automates manual tasks to speed up incident response. Broadcom … continue reading
Mohan Kompella, vice president of product marketing at BigPanda: There are two main ways we help. For large companies that have multiple observability tools, multiple monitoring tools and multiple APM tools, which is basically a majority of the market out there, BigPanda comes in and unifies all of those fragmented domains and teams using those … continue reading
It seems like the industry is leaving application performance management (APM) behind and moving towards a new observability world. But don’t be fooled. While vendors are rebranding themselves as observability tools, APM is still an important piece of the puzzle. “Observability is becoming a bigger focus today, but APM just by design will continue to … continue reading
