Google is making passkeys more accessible by offering them as the default option for authentication across personal Google Accounts. In the future, when you log in to your account, users will be prompted to create and use passkeys for easier sign-ins. Additionally, the “Skip password when possible” option in Google Account settings will be enabled. … continue reading
Frontend development company Vercel is releasing a new tool that uses generative AI to help developers quickly create new website and user interface (UI) components. Called v0, the new tool enables you to use plain text prompts to describe what you want and then receive a component generated based on your request. “With v0, we’re … continue reading
Pulumi has launched a new product called Pulumi ESC, aimed at simplifying the management of secrets and configuration in cloud infrastructure and applications. It addresses the challenges of handling secrets and configuration at scale across various cloud environments. Pulumi ESC allows teams to gather secrets and configurations from multiple sources, and organize them into hierarchical … continue reading
The constantly shifting economy is a reminder to technical professionals seeking new roles that change is the only constant. The Linux Foundation’s 2023 State of Tech Talent Report, viewable here, highlights what some 400 IT hiring managers and staffing professionals view as must-haves for new hires. Here are three insights and the takeaways technical professionals … continue reading
What makes developers productive? And how is that measured? This is an issue that’s top of mind in the industry these days. Some believe that lines of code written per day is still a valid metric. Some say you should measure development teams, not individuals. Others say productivity stems from removing obstacles in the SDLC … continue reading
Docker announced a new GenAI Stack in partnership with Neo4j, LangChain, and Ollama during its annual DockerCon developer conference keynote. This GenAI Stack is designed to help developers quickly and easily build generative AI applications without searching for and configuring various technologies. It includes pre-configured components like large language models (LLMs) from Ollama, vector and … continue reading
Studies show that DevOps adoption is still a moving target for the vast majority of software development teams, with just 11% reporting full DevOps maturity in 2022. Navigating this transition requires organization-wide metrics that help everyone understand their role. To that end, Google developed the DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) metrics to give development teams … continue reading
OpenPubkey is an open-source cryptographic protocol that hopes to strengthen security in the open source ecosystem. It makes use of the authentication framework OpenID Connect, enabling users to sign artifacts using their OpenID identity. This enables the use of supply chain security features like signed builds, deployments, and code commits. It was developed at BastionZero, … continue reading
The W3C has announced the approval of the latest version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), which is a set of recommendations that web developers should follow to make their websites more accessible. WCAG 2.2 adds nine new success criteria. The first three are related to keyboard focus. There is a minimum and enhanced … continue reading
In 2023, there was an 18% decline in the number of open-source projects that are considered to be “actively maintained.” This is according to Sonatype’s Annual State of the Software Supply Chain Report. The report claims that only 11% of open-source projects are actually actively maintained. Despite these flaws, Sonatype still says that 96% of … continue reading
Having a healthy work culture can have many benefits for software teams, such as burnout prevention, increased productivity, and higher rates of job satisfaction. According to Google Cloud’s 2023 Accelerate State of DevOps Report, having a healthy culture also results in 30% higher performance than those without. In its study, Google ranked culture based on … continue reading
Amazon is releasing a new data management service to enable collaboration on data between different areas of an organization. Amazon DataZone enables cataloging, discovery, analysis, sharing, and governance of data between its producers and consumers. The data producers provide the data catalog with structured data assets, and then consumers can subscribe to those assets and … continue reading
Android 14 has been under development for several months, and finally the source code is being pushed to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), which is the repository where official Android code is stored and where manufacturers can go to grab the source code and create their own variants. Many of the updates in Android … continue reading
Azul has announced a new feature that catalogs the source code used by production Java applications so that unused code can be removed. Code Inventory collects detailed information about code information within the JVM to provide a report on what is used across the Java workloads running in production. The report also includes the date … continue reading
