HCL Software announces rebrand of DevOps portfolio

HCL Software has announced it has renamed its DevOps portfolio to better align products with their core functionality. The company hopes that with this rebrand, it will be easier for customers to navigate the portfolio and get to the right product. The company recently hosted a webinar to announce the changes, where Chris Haggan, head … continue reading

Ngrok releases new SDK for implementing ingress in Python applications

The ingress platform ngrok has announced the release of ngrok-python, which is an SDK that enables developers to implement ingress in their Python applications.  This allows Python developers to serve their apps through ngrok’s network without much configuration.  The SDK creates a secure, persistent connection to ngrok’s ingress-as-a-service platform, and then ngrok transmits the application’s … continue reading

IBM and Meta lead 50 other organizations to form global AI Alliance

IBM and Meta have come together — along with 50 other organizations — to form the AI Alliance, “a group of leading organizations across industry, startup, academia, research and government coming together to support open innovation and open science in AI.” By bringing together a diverse set of types of organizations, the AI Alliance hopes … continue reading

Google unveils Gemini, a new multimodal AI model

Google has announced its latest AI model, Gemini, which was built from the start to be multimodal so that it could interpret information in multiple formats, spanning text, code, audio, image, and video. According to Google, the typical approach for creating a multimodal model involves training components for different information formats separately and then combining … continue reading

Vercel’s new Conformance feature detects issues earlier in the development lifecycle

Vercel is releasing new features in its Developer Experience Platform to enable development teams to “move fast, don’t break things.” “As organizations grow, it can become hard to sustain fast release cycles without diminishing code health and letting errors slip into production. It shouldn’t be this way. We should be able to move fast without … continue reading

Microsoft unveils upcoming Copilot features

A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft announced it would be bringing together several of its separate AI products —  including Bing Chat and the AI capabilities in Microsoft 365, Microsoft Edge, and Windows — under the single umbrella of Microsoft Copilot to provide a more unified experience.  Now the company is announcing it has started … continue reading

MongoDB releases two new products for building and scaling generative AI applications

The database company MongoDB has announced new capabilities to enable companies to better leverage generative AI.  MongoDB Atlas Vector Search is now generally available, which allows customers to build generative AI into their applications based on their own data. This enables the AI to provide accurate, relevant responses for a specific organization or domain.  Customers … continue reading

Why is building an effective Agile product development process so complicated?

I‘ve found that building and maintaining a high-performing Agile product development team is a challenge, whether in startups or large enterprises. I have been in companies where, despite having highly skilled developers and PMs, some teams fail to deliver high-quality work at a good pace. We tried everything to improve performance, but nothing worked. But … continue reading

Android Studio Hedgehog is stable and includes new features for developer productivity

The Android development team has announced the latest stable release of its IDE for building Android apps, Android Studio. This update aims to enhance app performance and battery life, facilitate easier application upgrades to the latest Android version, and speed up development using Jetpack Compose. The release, known as Android Studio Hedgehog, is designed to … continue reading

OMG announces new communities to provide technologists with resources, knowledge

The Object Management Group (OMG) is trying to provide support and direction to its members by launching a new community where they can receive insights and best practices for the latest technologies.  The Managed Communities Program will include a number of communities around specific interests, the first of which is the OMG Systems Modeling Community … continue reading

Analyst View: 5 actions for software engineering teams to leverage AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing how software engineering teams design, build and test applications. AI can automate much of today’s mundane software development tasks. It can also help software engineers produce code more quickly.  AI coding assistants can reduce the amount of time and effort software engineers spend on programming tasks, such as typing boilerplate … continue reading

SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Dify.ai

Dify.AI is an open-source platform for developing generative AI applications. According to the GitHub page, one core aspect of Dify.AI is it supports model neutrality and developers can use any LLM with it.   “Users can effortlessly connect Dify with their existing workflows or other open-source systems through its API, which facilitates quick data sharing and … continue reading

Despite layoffs, software engineering and quality assurance skills remain in-demand

According to data from Layoffs.fyi, over 250,000 tech employees were laid off across over 1,100 companies in the past year. Despite this, over 23,000 development vacancies still exist on company websites, according to a report from Qt Group.  The company explained that there were a lot of redundancies reported in 2023, and that many layoffs … continue reading

A guide to low-code vendors that incorporate generative AI capabilities

The following is a listing of low-code vendors that incorporate generative AI capabilities, along with a brief description of their offerings. FEATURED PROVIDER Parasoft helps organizations continuously deliver high-quality software with its AI-powered software testing platform and automated test solutions. Supporting embedded and enterprise markets, Parasoft’s proven technologies reduce the time, effort, and cost of … continue reading

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