What if I told you that this year was going to change the way developers build for unified communications, forever cementing a place in traditional industries like manufacturing and medicine? We all know the critical role software developers have played as the driving force beyond today’s connected collaboration capabilities. But I think that role will … continue reading
Artificial intelligence is one of the digital marketplace’s most overused buzzwords. The term “AI” conjures up images of Alexa or Siri, computer chess opponents, and self-driving cars. AI can help humans in a variety of ways, including reducing errors and automating repetitive tasks. Software test automation tools are maturing and have incorporated AI and machine learning … continue reading
The National Cybersecurity Strategy released by the Biden Administration this week includes key recommendations that significantly mitigate software supply chain risks. Specifically, the White House recommends making software providers liable for insecure software. Until now, the U.S. government has never taken such a bold stance on liability for software products at this level. The strategy … continue reading
As the use of open-source software (OSS) continues its year-over-year growth, the biggest area for innovation and open-source adoption is now AI. But the growth of OSS is in every area, relied upon by companies for a wide range of business-critical applications, including data and database management, containers and container orchestration, and DevOps and SDLC … continue reading
Touca is a continuous regression testing tool that provides engineering teams with a real-time visual comparison of their software’s performance and behavior against a previous trusted version. This can help them identify any unintended side effects of their daily code changes. “It is still too difficult and time-consuming for software engineers to gain confidence in … continue reading
Since OpenAI released ChatGPT in November 2022, developers have been speculating about when an API for the tool would be available. Today, the company announced APIs for both ChatGPT and Whisper, which is a speech recognition system that was trained on 680,000 hours of voice data. This means that developers can now integrate these solutions … continue reading
The team at the application platform for dynamic work Quickbase today unveiled new product capabilities geared at assisting organizations in making better business decisions and improving the delivery of complex projects. Among these new features are Gantt Chart for holistic project support and ‘Smart Builder’ AI recommendations. With the new Smart Builder, users gain access … continue reading
The team at Google has recently introduced Service Weaver, an open-source framework for building and deploying distributed applications that allows users to write apps as a modular monolith and deploy them as a set of microservices. Service Weaver is made up of two core pieces. The first is a set of programming libraries which allow … continue reading
Observability has really taken off in the past few years, and while in some ways observability has become a bit of a marketing buzzword, one of the main ways companies are implementing observability is not with any particular company’s solution, but with an open-source project: OpenTelemetry. Since 2019, it has been incubating at the Cloud … continue reading
Most code in existence today utilizes open-source components, but it’s important to remember where, and who, that open-source code comes from. Open-source software is mostly developed and maintained by volunteers. Unlike a company with resources to hire more developers, the maintainers of most open-source projects have to carry the burden of what comes after them. … continue reading
The White House has released a new plan for ensuring security in digital ecosystems. It hopes to “reimagine cyberspace as a tool to achieve our goals in a way that reflects our values: economic security and prosperity; respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms; trust in our democracy and democratic institutions; and an equitable and … continue reading
While every developer is different, there is one thing that almost all of them have in common: the desire to build. Developers do not want to be bogged down by dependencies or constantly having to pause and answer questions from a helicopter manager; they just want to create. This is why the job of the … continue reading
The latest issue of SD Times is now available. This month’s issue features a look at how to tend to open-source like a garden, the soft skills needed for project management, and why OpenTelemetry has become so crucial. … continue reading
The team at the SaaS platform LaunchDarkly has released a roundup of product updates intended to help users deliver software more quickly and with less risk through feature management. First, custom contexts are now generally available for all LaunchDarkly customers. With this, organizations are enabled to create several target objects which can map to a … continue reading
