LinkedIn recently announced its decision to open source its Developer Productivity and Happiness (DPH) Framework. The DPH Framework describes “the systems, processes, metrics, and feedback systems we use to understand our developers and their needs internally at LinkedIn,” Max Kanat-Alexander, principal staff software engineer at LinkedIn, and Grant Jenks, senior staff software engineer at LinkedIn, … continue reading
The following is a listing of security testing tool providers, along with a brief description of their offerings. FEATURED PROVIDER HCL AppScan helps organizations pinpoint and remediate vulnerabilities throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC) with a suite of application security testing platforms available as a cloud-based service (SaaS), self-managed, or cloud-native. Powerful static, dynamic, interactive, … continue reading
Many organizations today assume a product roadmap is essential – the only logical way to understand where a product is right now and where it will be at specific points down the road. They believe a clear delineation of milestones and deadlines will give them a view into the future and, hopefully, some control over … continue reading
A number of companies have announced major changes to their executive leadership last month. Here are a couple of highlights: Ashan Willy joins New Relic as CEO Willy’s appointment came into effect on December 4, 2023. He brings with him 25 years of experience in go-to-market, engineering, product management, and global strategy and planning. Previously … continue reading
CompTIA, a global provider of IT certifications and training, has announced expansions to its range of learning and certification offerings to cater to a broader audience of students and professionals. Over the next year, CompTIA plans to launch several new products, beginning in the first quarter of 2024. Additionally, five of its existing certifications will … continue reading
In 2023, AI technologies made their way through the hype cycle. Companies researched it, maybe experimented with it, or at the very least, certainly spent a lot of time talking about it. In 2024, it will be time to actually take the lessons learned from those experiments and begin implementing these technologies in real ways, … continue reading
Patch management is like painting or gardening: At first glance, it may seem like routine and straightforward work. But in practice, it can prove much more challenging than it looks. Just as lack of prep work can spell disaster for a paint job, or forgetting to water and weed regularly can turn your garden into … continue reading
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has recently approved OpenFeature as an incubating project within the CNCF. OpenFeature is an open specification designed to provide a vendor-neutral, community-driven API specifically for feature flagging. Feature flagging is a method used in software development where teams can switch features or code paths on or off, or modify … continue reading
As we bid farewell to another year, it is crucial to reflect on the threats of cyberattacks and ransomware and think of how to mitigate them moving forward. However, this year feels a bit different – marked by the unknown of what challenges AI will bring to the security landscape in the new year. This … continue reading
The concept and promise of open source has been around for decades. It’s thriving in the industry today. While commercialization strategies around open source continue to evolve and disrupt, purveyors of open-source software cannot lose sight of what makes it such a powerful force for innovation. Looking back over the past 20 years of software … continue reading
Artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) have dominated the tech scene over the past year. As a byproduct, vendors in nearly every tech sector are adding AI capabilities and scrambling to promote how their products and services use it. This trend has also made its way to the observability and monitoring space. However, … continue reading
Generative AI. Observability. Developer platforms. Data management. These are the issues that our industry will face with heightened urgency in 2024. SD Times reached out to experts from across the spectrum of software development to find out what they think the new year will bring. Here are some of their thoughts. Devavrat Shah, co-CEO and founder, … continue reading
One of the big themes of 2023 was the enterprise struggle to make developers more productive. And the strategies for making that happen included the creation of developer platforms, changes in culture to allow developers to experience joy in their work, and understanding how to measure if a developer or their teams are being productive. … continue reading
The progress that has been made in generative AI (GenAI) technology is nothing short of astounding, and yet, not without its flaws. But these flaws aren’t surprising when you consider that these artificial neural networks are modeled after something equally as impressive and flawed: human intelligence. As such, GenAI falls victim to many of the … continue reading
