According to Datadog’s State of DevSecOps 2024 report, 90% of Java services have at least one or more critical or higher severity vulnerabilities. This is compared to around 75% for JavaScript services, 64% for Python, and 50% for .NET. The average for all languages studied was 47% The company found that Java services are also … continue reading
OpenAI has just announced a few new updates to its Assistants API, which is an API that makes it possible for developers to build AI assistants into their applications. The API now includes a file search tool that allows up to 10,000 files per assistant, and can enable developers to integrate knowledge retrieval into their … continue reading
A number of security-focused groups have announced they are teaming up on a new open-source project to help secure software supply chains: Protobom. The project was created jointly by the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S&T). Protobom allows … continue reading
If you ask most folks to describe the top DevOps trends in 2024, you’ll likely hear buzzwords like AI or DevSecOps. Those are certainly trendy topics. But based on the work I do on an everyday basis helping businesses plan and execute DevOps strategies, I’m noticing a different set of salient trends in the world … continue reading
Most developers at this point in time have adopted DevOps in some form or another, whether they are a full-blown DevOps engineer or a developer utilizing parts of the DevOps practice. According to a new report from the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF), 83% of developers were “involved in DevOps-related activities” in the first quarter of … continue reading
When Oracle bought Sun Microsystems in April 2009 for $7.4 billion, Oracle’s Larry Ellison said Java was “the single most important software asset we have ever acquired.” Two months later, appearing on stage with Ellison at the JavaOne conference, Sun chairman Scott McNealy tackled the crowd’s biggest question head-on. “There’s a big, pink elephant in … continue reading
The Overture Maps Foundation — a joint effort from Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom — to provide open map data — has announced a beta of its global map dataset. The dataset includes five base layers of data: Data on almost 54 million places of interest around the world 2.3 billion building footprints Information … continue reading
Until recently, the terms “mainframe” and “Git” appeared to be a mismatch. However, increased adoption of DevOps practices on the mainframe, the desire to integrate the platform in enterprise-wide continuous innovation/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, and its familiarity among next-generation developers have made Git a popular solution for mainframe source code management (SCM). Git’s feature branches, … continue reading
JetBrains is attempting to make it easier for developers to manage different development tools with the release of JetBrains IDE Services. “Due to complex environments and distributed engineering teams, enterprise customers struggle to efficiently and securely deploy and manage IDEs, AI tools, and remote environments all at once. These struggles naturally slow businesses down and … continue reading
The Android development team has just released the first beta for Android 15, which allows developers and early adopters to start using it on their supported Pixel devices. As of this beta, apps can now be displayed edge-to-edge by default, meaning that content will be visible behind system bars like the notification bar at the … continue reading
OpenAI has announced that paid ChatGPT users now have access to GPT-4 Turbo, which is the company’s most advanced model. The new model improves writing, math, logical reasoning, and coding capabilities. According to OpenAI, the use of GPT-4 Turbo will result in more direct and concise results from ChatGPT that use more conversational language compared … continue reading
Apache Airflow is an open-source project for scheduling and managing workflows, written in Python. Kaxil Naik, director of Airflow engineering at Astronomer and one of the core committers of Airflow, told SD Times: “It is used to automate your daily jobs or daily tasks, and tasks can be as simple as running a Python script … continue reading
While developers have always had to care about user experience, over the next year they will take this a step further by investing more heavily into what’s known as human-centric software development. According to Progress Software’s 2024 Human Side of Software Report, which surveyed 700 developers and IT leaders, over half of organizations will invest … continue reading
ACM has announced that it is awarding the 2023 ACM A.M. Turing Award to Avi Wigderson for his contributions in the area of theoretical computer science, and notably, for changing our understanding of how randomness works in computation. “Wigderson is a towering intellectual force in theoretical computer science, an exciting discipline that attracts some of … continue reading
