March 2024: People on the Move

A number of companies have announced major changes to their executive leadership this month. Here are a couple of the moves across the industry this past month.  Couchbase names Julie Irish as new chief information officer As chief information officer, she will be responsible for driving the company’s global IT strategy, bringing with her almost … continue reading

Domo’s App Studio provides simple no-code interface for automating business processes

The BI company Domo has just announced the release of its no-code app platform, App Studio, designed to enable any business user to automate their business processes with easy-to-create apps. It was previously in beta and is now officially generally available.  Users can heavily personalize their apps by creating them in the studio, which offers … continue reading

AI Everywhere? It’s going nowhere without data movement and a connected enterprise

We all know AI is going to grow – and tech budgets are shifting accordingly. IDC expects the shift in IT spending toward AI will be fast and dramatic, impacting nearly every industry and application. By 2025, Global 2000 organizations will allocate over 40% of their core IT spend to AI-related initiatives, leading to a … continue reading

SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Bruno

Bruno is an API client that hopes to revolutionize “the status quo represented by Postman, Insomnia and similar tools out there,” the project’s website says. It stores collections directly on users’ filesystems, with no intention of ever adding cloud-sync. “We value your data privacy and believe it should stay on your device,” the maintainers say … continue reading

premium The importance of security testing

With more development teams today using open-source and third-party components to build out their applications, the biggest area of concern for security teams has become the API. This is where vulnerabilities are likely to arise, as keeping on top of updating those interfaces has lagged. In a recent survey, the research firm Forrester asked security … continue reading

The evolving role of developers in data analytics

The ability to harness the immense power of data analytics is fast becoming a fundamental requirement for organizations across all industries. Integrating data analytics into custom applications—long viewed as the job of third-party applications and extensions—is increasingly becoming the responsibility of the software developer. By embedding analytics natively into an application, users are ensured a … continue reading

Applitools and Kobiton team up to combine their automated and mobile testing strengths

The testing companies Applitools and Kobiton are teaming up to combine their strengths and bring better testing benefits to customers.  Kobiton, a provider of mobile testing tools, will integrate with Applitools’ test automation platform, Applitools Intelligent Testing Platform.  With this, Applitools customers will now be able to access hundreds of real mobile devices and perform … continue reading

Wind River Studio Developer can now be hosted on AWS

Wind River has announced that its development platform Wind River Studio Developer is now available on AWS.  According to Wind River, this new partnership is of particular interest to those developing software-defined vehicles. This is because it gives customers the “benefits of cloud-scale automated build and test for safety-critical embedded edge platforms,” the company wrote … continue reading

Databricks releases new open LLM

Databricks has just launched a new LLM designed to enable customers to build and fine-tune their own custom LLMs. The company hopes that by releasing this model, it will further democratize access to AI and enable its customers to build their own models based on their own data.  According to Databricks, the new model, DBRX, … continue reading

Airtable launches several new AI-based features to improve productivity

The low-code platform Airtable is trying to make it even easier for users to create applications on its platform with the launch of new features in Airtable AI. The first update is the ability to extract insights from large amounts of data. It provides an easy-to-understand summary of the insights, which can then be shared … continue reading

ArmorCode delivers solution for managing application risks

Application security posture management company ArmorCode today announced Risk Prioritization, a three-dimensional scoring approach to managing application risks. According to the company’s announcement, ArmorCode Risk Prioritization looks at technical severity ratings, unique business context and insight into whether vulnerabilities are being exploited to help organizations determine which risks need immediate action and which do not. … continue reading

Atlassian hopes to improve developer experience in latest Jira, Compass, and Bitbucket updates

Atlassian is trying to improve the developer experience across several of its products — including Jira, Compass, and Bitbucket — with its latest round of updates. The first update is the ability to connect Compass components to Jira Software. This provides developers better visibility into health and performance metrics of their applications without needing to … continue reading

Perforce Software completes acquisition of Delphix

The development tools company Perforce Software has announced it completed its acquisition of Delphix, which is a provider of enterprise data management software. By bringing Delphix’ technology into Perforce’s portfolio, Perforce hopes to provide its customers with more data automation and compliance capabilities. “Data is at the heart of how enterprises operate today and essential … continue reading

The power of automation and AI in testing environments

Software testing is a critical aspect of the SDLC, but constraints on time and resources can cause software companies to treat testing as an afterthought, rather than a linchpin in product quality. The primary challenge in the field of testing is the scarcity of talent and expertise, particularly in automation testing, according to Nilesh Patel, … continue reading

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