The move to digital business platforms is compelling infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders to rethink their data center strategies. Digital business platforms like AI, which encompasses machine learning (ML), deep neural networks (DNN) and the IoT, are driving requirements for agile and scalable compute infrastructures. In 2018 I&O leaders should focus on enabling increased agility … continue reading
Digital transformation and enhanced user expectations have established the need for 24x7x365 availability as the “new normal.” While business continuity is not a new concept, real-time and near real-time expectations make outages more costly and disruptive to the business than ever before. The natural disasters of 2017 demonstrated that businesses cannot afford a single point … continue reading
The State of JavaScript 2017 has released its features and opinion survey results. The report was released last month with the promise of adding more results in the coming weeks. The features section looks at what features developers value the most. All features were considered nice to have, but not important. Code splitting, hot module reloading, and … continue reading
CA Technologies: Only CA delivers next-generation, integrated solutions that enable test environment simulation; automatic test case creation, even from requirements; on-demand test data management; orchestration that progresses applications from phase to phase based upon the passing of test cases; SaaS-based performance testing; and open source integrations with tools like JMeterTM, Jenkins, Selenium, Appium, and more. CA’s … continue reading
Jeff Scheaffer, general manager of continuous delivery, CA Technologies To achieve true continuous testing, it’s not sufficient to take a piecemeal approach. Your ability to deliver—and test software—will only be as fast as the weakest link in your toolchain. That means testing has to occur early, often, and incorporate all aspects of security, performance, functional … continue reading
In a time when software must be released on shorter and shorter cycles, there needs to be a way to make every step of the process faster. No longer can developers build and then wait until they are finished to test everything. In order to stay ahead in this digital world, organizations must look to … continue reading
Catch up with the January 2018 issue of SD Times! Read on to learn more. … continue reading
Software development went through leaps and bounds this year with new advancements and innovations in artificial intelligence, containers, security, applications and more. With 2017 coming to a close, we asked software development luminaries and thought leaders to forecast what is next for this space in 2018. Aruna Ravichandran, VP of DevOps product and solutions marketing … continue reading
There has been a lot of recent focus of shifting testing left, but a part of that which doesn’t get much attention is API testing. Akshay Aggarwal, CEO of PeachTech and founder and COO of Deja Vu Security, believes that companies can better manage API testing by approaching it in a DevSecOps way. It needs … continue reading
PlatformIO Core 3.5.0 has been released. PlatformIO is an open source ecosystem of Internet of Things development. New features include a new GUI called PlatformIO Home, integration with Jenkins CI, a new include folder for project’s header files, and the ability to handle missed dependencies and provide a solution based on the PlatformIO Library Registry. … continue reading
You may often hear programmers claim that once you’ve mastered your first programming language, learning additional languages is easy. Once you have the basic concepts mastered, it’s just a matter of learning different syntaxes. While this may be true, when you are juggling between all these different languages, it can sometimes be difficult to keep … continue reading
Board games are as popular as ever these days and while they are fun to play, they can also hold educational value in the field of software development. There are lots of board games that teach the concepts of programming, such as Robot Turtles or RoboRally. John Yorke, product owner and former agile coach at … continue reading
Kotlin and C are in the running to become TIOBE’s programming language of 2017. The winner will be announced next month. The TIOBE Programming Community index is calculated each month and the ratings are based off of the number of skilled engineers using the language, courses, and third party vendors. According to the index, the … continue reading
Buying and implementing a new piece of software is no easy task. There are so many different factors that contribute to whether or not a software implementation is successful, that it is important to do your research before investing in something new. Craig Flynn, founder and EVP engineering at relationship management software provider Impartner, offered … continue reading
