When businesses think about going digital or moving online, they tend to think more about their front-end-facing solutions. But there is another piece to this digital transformation. While front-end-facing applications need to provide a great user experience and are at the heart of most businesses, it also needs an integrated back end to make them … continue reading
While the phrase “DevOps” suggests a cross-pollination of skills between Dev and Ops, in practice most think of it as Devs assuming some Ops roles, with their influence ever increasing across the app life cycle. I predict this is only the beginning of the diminishing role Ops will play. In fact, I will go as … continue reading
Shippable has released an infographic to help decision makers in software teams who want to increase their teams’ productivity and speed up their application delivery cycle time. This infographic is designed to help developers navigate through the modern application delivery landscape based on their needs, and it details the tools and technologies that could help … continue reading
HPE wants to keep up with the ever-changing software development life cycles with the release of a new application life-cycle management (ALM) solution for DevOps and agile environments. The company unveiled HPE ALM Octane, designed to provide insights into software, speed up delivery, and ensure quality user experiences. According to the company, HPE ALM Octane … continue reading
Low-code application development is nothing new. In many ways, it’s simply an offshoot of the 4GL trend of the 1980s and 1990s. But in today’s fast-changing technology world, low-code has become more critical than ever. According to Forrester, the global market for low-code development will eclipse US$10 billion by 2019. That makes sense, since the … continue reading
The DevOps community is all about speed and high-quality releases, and since mobile applications and websites drive traffic and revenue, companies can’t afford to have site crashes or send out buggy releases. To emphasize the importance of testing, people are putting it back into DevOps, literally, so it shifts both left and right to the … continue reading
In an effort to make security more of a priority in an agile development environment, software security provider Cigital announced it is releasing an Agile Security Manifesto. The security manifesto builds on the original Agile Manifesto for software development, but adds four principles designed to promote security. According to the company, integrating security into an … continue reading
“Microservices” has become one of the hottest buzzwords of the past few years, and as with any game-changing new technology, there has certainly been no shortage of differing opinions around the topic. Some have been bullish about the adoption of microservices, calling them “SOA done right,” while naysayers claim that the idea is simply a … continue reading
Software is ever changing, and with software releases being pushed out almost every week with multiple people involved, it can be easy to get lost or make a mistake. Experts talk about DevOps and agile as being methodologies for achieving better, faster and higher-quality code, but in order to achieve that, development teams need to … continue reading
Google Glass could be coming to health systems, as startup Augmedix has secured US$17 million in a strategic round of funding that includes investments from Sutter Health, Dignity Health, Catholic Health Initiatives, TriHealth, and one other. This round of funding allows Augmedix to scale Google Glass powered service across the health systems and private clinics. … continue reading
To help developers eliminate some of the scaling challenges they face, GitLab, the open-source code collaboration tool, announced a partnership with DigitalOcean, a cloud infrastructure provider to add free hosting for Continuous Integration (CI) for development teams. Working together, the organizations want to help developers with CI issues like speed, security and cost. The partnership … continue reading
Mainframe data, historically accessed via built-from-scratch COBOL applications, is now more likely to be accessed by newer Web and mobile applications. Developers therefore must constantly modify mainframe code to accommodate these non-mainframe end-user applications. This has resulted in faster, more frequent mainframe development cycles, but admittedly, the mainframe’s culture, tools and processes have not always … continue reading
