Topic: software development

JetBrains aims to improve developer productivity with launch of IDE Services

JetBrains is attempting to make it easier for developers to manage different development tools with the release of JetBrains IDE Services.  “Due to complex environments and distributed engineering teams, enterprise customers struggle to efficiently and securely deploy and manage IDEs, AI tools, and remote environments all at once. These struggles naturally slow businesses down and … continue reading

Report: Companies are going all in on human-centric software development this year

While developers have always had to care about user experience, over the next year they will take this a step further by investing more heavily into what’s known as human-centric software development. According to Progress Software’s 2024 Human Side of Software Report, which surveyed 700 developers and IT leaders, over half of organizations will invest … continue reading

Implement a good secrets management practice to reduce your security risk

Supply chain security has been a big topic of conversation over the past several years, and while many of the conversations have revolved around insecure third-party components in codebases, there’s another part of the supply chain that could have a negative impact if not secured properly: secrets.  Max Power, product lead for Bitwarden Secrets Manager, … continue reading

PlatformCon 2024: The #1 Platform engineering virtual conference

Platform engineering — or the practice of internally developing tools for developers to use — will soon become part of most development teams’ strategies, with Gartner estimating that by 2026, 80% of large software engineering companies will have these teams.  It’s a relatively new concept, so in order to learn more about it, attend PlatformCon … continue reading

The evolving role of developers in data analytics

The ability to harness the immense power of data analytics is fast becoming a fundamental requirement for organizations across all industries. Integrating data analytics into custom applications—long viewed as the job of third-party applications and extensions—is increasingly becoming the responsibility of the software developer. By embedding analytics natively into an application, users are ensured a … continue reading

The power of automation and AI in testing environments

Software testing is a critical aspect of the SDLC, but constraints on time and resources can cause software companies to treat testing as an afterthought, rather than a linchpin in product quality. The primary challenge in the field of testing is the scarcity of talent and expertise, particularly in automation testing, according to Nilesh Patel, … continue reading

SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Guac

The Graph for Understanding Artifact Composition (GUAC) is a project dedicated to enhancing the security of software supply chains that has recently become an incubating project under the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF).  This collaborative effort, initiated by Kusari, Google, and Purdue University, is designed to manage dependencies and offer actionable insights into the security … continue reading

CircleCI enables automated rollbacks in latest offering: CircleCI releases

CircleCI just announced a new feature that will allow developers to automate their release orchestration processes from within the CircleCI UI.  According to the company, the main benefit of this new CircleCI releases feature is that it can give developers greater confidence in their releases and reduce mean-time-to-recovery for issues.  Key capabilities that will come … continue reading

DBOS announces FaaS platform DBOS Cloud and $8.5 million in seed funding

DBOS announced that it has raised $8.5 million in seed funding, and released its first product offering. The funding was led by Engine Ventures and Construct Capital, along with Sinewave, and GutBrain Ventures. DBOS (database oriented operating system) runs operating system services on top of high-performance distributed databases, creating a scalable, fault-tolerant, and cyber-resilient foundation … continue reading

Prismatic adds code-native integrations to its low-code platform

The low-code integration platform Prismatic has announced new code-native integrations, in an attempt to make its platform more useful to developers and allow them to embed their own code in Prismatic applications. With this update, developers will be able to write code from within their preferred IDE, rather than having to go through Prismatic’s low-code … continue reading

Android Studio Iguana features better insights for debugging Android apps

Android announced the release of the latest version of Android Studio, with new features aimed at improving the app development workflow. Among its notable features in Android Studio Iguana is the integration of the version control system within App Quality Insights, which is designed to streamline the development process by providing more detailed insights into … continue reading

SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: FastUI

FastUI enables developers to create user interfaces through declarative Python code. This framework is particularly beneficial for Python developers, as it allows them to build responsive web applications with React without needing to write JavaScript or interact with npm. It offers frontend developers the advantage of focusing on crafting reusable components, eliminating the need to … continue reading

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