Topic: software development

SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Threatmapper

Threatmapper is a cloud-native security observability platform that scans, maps, and ranks vulnerabilities from development through production across serverless, Kubernetes, container, and multi-cloud environments.  This Wednesday, it was open-sourced by Deepfence under the Apache 2.0 license.  “By open sourcing ThreatMapper, we aim to help developers, DevOps, DevSecOps, and security teams identify and prioritize threats quickly … continue reading

IBM Research creates new benchmark for measuring AI

IBM Research has created AGENT, a benchmark for evaluating an AI model’s core psychological reasoning ability, or common sense, to help users build and test AI models that reason similar to how humans do.  “We’re making progress toward building AI agents that can infer mental states, predict future actions, and even work with human partners. … continue reading

AppSmith logo

SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Appsmith

Appsmith, the open-source project that helps developers build internal tools, announced that it received $10.5 million in funding plus new real-time commenting and Git-sync features. The new real-time comment feature enables users to communicate directly, provide feedback, and collaborate while working on internal tools.  Also, the Git-sync feature, currently in testing with beta users, gives … continue reading

Developers are gaining more tools for the edge

The edge is growing, and cloud providers know it. That’s why they’re creating more tools to help with embedded programming.  According to IDC’s research, edge computing is growing, with 73% of companies in 2021 saying that computing is a strategic initiative for them and they are already making investments to adopt it. Last year, especially, … continue reading

Report: Nearly half of executives are looking to automation tools to save developer time

Nearly half of global software development executives are looking to automation tools to save valuable staff time, according to the results of a survey from Tempo Software. The team time management and productivity-enhancing solution provider surveyed 800 software development executives across North America and Europe to understand how and why development teams track time.  The … continue reading

SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: OpenVSCode

OpenVSCode provides a version of VS Code that runs on a server on a remote machine and allows access through a modern web browser.  It’s based on the same infrastructure used by Gitpod or GitHub Codespaces at scale.  According to the project’s GitHub page, in 2019 the VS Code team began refactoring its architecture in … continue reading

Report: Over half of developers feel that current security policies stifle innovation

Just over half of developers feel that security policies stifle their innovation and only about a third of developers reported that they are thoroughly educated on the security procedures they are expected to execute, according to a new report by VMware and Forrester.  Forrester conducted a VMware-commissioned survey called “Bridging the Developer and Security Divide” … continue reading

Netlify launches Enterprise Grid, availability on AWS Marketplace

Netlify introduced new features, workflow, and automation for enterprises building modern web applications at scale.  The new team governance features and Jira integration make it easier for large-scale enterprises to benefit from the Jamstack ecosystem and best practices.  The company added a new integration with Jira to accelerate feedback on web projects, and availability of … continue reading

SD Times news digest: Apple releases new marketing tools for App Store, Android to expand permissions auto-reset, Swift 5.5 released

Apple announced that users can now easily create custom marketing assets such as banners and images to promote their apps on social media and more.  One just needs to select their app, choose a template, customize their design, and add preset messages in multiple languages.  The new App Store marketing tools can also be used … continue reading

SD Times news digest: Azure SDK September release, Puppet shares future plans for its developer kit, and F5 acquires Threat Stack

Microsoft announced the September release of its new Azure SDKs including one for C++, Go, and the Python Conda version, as well as Resource Management Libraries for .NET, JavaScript, and Go. Also, CloudNative Cloud Events for .NET version 1.0 has released a new stable version.  Additional details on all of the highlights, stable releases, and … continue reading

SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Design Principles

Design Principles help teams with decision-making with a few simple principles or constructive questions that can help teams make appropriate decisions. Among the selection of principles are Principles of Design by Tim Berners-Lee, The Ten Principles of Inclusive Web Design, Principles of Calm Technology, and 192 other examples.  The project is managed by Ben Brignel, … continue reading

Postman updates its API platform

Postman API announced that it’s redefining the API Management category with the launch of a new version of the platform.  The new and improved features include deeper integration with version control systems, all-new private API networks which provides a central directory of all internal APIs in an organization, and simplified API documentation and onboarding.  The … continue reading

DMCA.com Protection Status