2022: The year of hybrid work
Remote work was once considered a luxury to many, but in 2020, it became a necessity for a large portion of the workforce, as the scary and unknown COVID-19 virus sickened and even took the lives of so many people around the world. Some workers were able to thrive in a remote setting, while others … continue reading
SD Times news digest: WhiteSource releases Log4j remediation tool; Svelte 2022 updates; Clear acquires Whyline
WhiteSource, an open-source security and management company, today announced that a Log4j remediation preset is now included in both its commercial product and free GitHub developer tool. With this preset, enterprises can find and fix Log4j dependencies, both direct and indirect. WhiteSource is also bringing users a new online research center in order to provide … continue reading
How these tools facilitate value stream management
We asked these tool providers to share more information on how their solutions help companies with their value streams. Their responses are below. Laureen Knudsen, chief transformation officer at Broadcom ValueOps from Broadcom is the leading Value Stream Management Platform that allows large organizations to deploy and execute a “true” value stream management strategy. Only … continue reading
Value Stream Management: The practice that finally unites business and IT
Some 86% of respondents to a Broadcom survey on value stream management indicated they are not doing value stream management right now. To that, Lance Knight would say, “Yes, you are. You just don’t know it yet.” Knight, the COO of value stream platform provider ConnectALL, said if a company is already evaluating their processes … continue reading
A guide to value stream management tools
The following is a listing of value stream management tool providers, along with a brief description of their offerings. Broadcom Software: Broadcom’s innovative ValueOps solution delivers on the promise of value stream management (VSM) as the first to combine business and investment-oriented product management, providing advanced operationally focused agile planning and management capabilities. The integration … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Google announces Prediction Framework; Flutter releases MIX; Apache news roundup
The team at Google recently announced a new Prediction Framework in order to help users implement and accelerate first-party data prediction projects by providing the backbone elements of the predictive process. The framework is a customizable pipeline that simplifies the implementation of prediction projects. Users only need to have the input data source, the logic … continue reading
premium SD Times January 2022
The latest issue of SD Times is now available. The latest issue features insights into what hybrid work will look like in 2022, predictions for the year, and a new development role, the Developer Experience Engineer. … continue reading
Troubleshooting microservices: Challenges and best practices
When people hear ‘microservices’ they often think about Kubernetes, which is a declarative container orchestrator. Because of its declarative nature, Kubernetes treats microservices as entities, which presents some challenges when it comes to troubleshooting. Let’s take a look at why troubleshooting microservices in a Kubernetes environment can be challenging, and some best practices for getting … continue reading
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Mattermost
Mattermost is a platform that enables collaboration throughout the software development life cycle. It offers integrations with several other tools — such as GitHub, Jira, and PagerDuty — so that developers can collaborate without needing to switch between different applications. According to the Mattermost team, nearly 40% of the work week on average is wasted … continue reading
How to choose a coding bootcamp
The basic hallmarks for a coding bootcamp are to provide practical competencies to people who want to start a new professional coding career within a very short period of time. It means the high speed of knowledge transfer and a high degree of condensation of educational material. Full-time bootcamps last about 3-4 months, and you … continue reading
2021 Year in Review: Microsoft
This year, Microsoft went all in on open-source and security and launched a plethora of new solutions aimed at bettering the lives of developers working remotely and on-premises. Microsoft launched its flagship Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 6. in November. .NET 6 is a follow-up to the notable .NET 5, which merged .NET Framework and … continue reading
2021 Year in Review: Security
2021 was a tumultuous time for security, marking both massive breaches — a trend that sped up during the pandemic — and widespread action for trying to fix the problem. On May 7, 2021, the Colonial Pipeline, an American oil pipeline system, suffered a ransomware cyberattack that impacted computerized equipment managing the pipeline. In response, … continue reading
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: SafeLog4j
SafeLog4j is an open-source tool that can detect and verify vulnerable Log4j applications and protect them. This project comes after a 0-day exploit in the Java logging library, Log4j (version 2) was discovered on December 9. The vulnerability resulted in Remote Code Execution by logging a certain string. SafeLog4j works inside an application, blocking the … continue reading
SD Times news digest: GrapeCity Documents v5 release, Tempo acquires ALM Works; Microsoft Graph Bookings API update
GrapeCity, provider of enterprise software development tools, today announced the GrapeCity Documents v5 release. This latest version brings users new features in all products in GrapeCity’s document API suite. The GrapeCity Documents APIs are supported in .NET 6 applications without extra steps to generate documents. Additionally, The GrapeCity Documents API supports features that do not … continue reading
