A number of companies have announced major changes to their executive leadership this month. Here are a couple of the moves across the industry this past month. Atlassian co-CEO Scott Farquhar announces plans to step down Farquhar, along with Mike Cannon-Brookes, have been running Atlassian as co-CEOs since forming the company together 23 years ago. …
Developer productivity solution provider Snyk today released Snyk AppRisk Pro, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to help developers and security teams locate and remediate critical risks that can harm the business. Snyk AppRisk Pro gives AppSec teams context around risk issues to enable the teams to prioritize the riskiest issues and …
Atlassian is helping to make enterprise data easier to find and act on with the launch of Atlassian Rovo, a new generative AI assistant powered by Atlassian Intelligence. According to Atlassian, the basis of Atlassian Rovo is the teamwork graph, which is a data model the company created based on the understanding it has gained …
Spotify is offering more capabilities based on its open source project Backstage with the beta launch of Spotify Portal for Backstage. The new offering will enable development teams to more easily get set up with their own internal developer portal using Backstage. It includes a Setup Wizard to install Portal and link it to a …
Java 17, a Long-Term Support (LTS) version released in 2021, has finally surpassed Java 11 as the most used version of Java in production. This is according to New Relic’s annual State of the Java Ecosystem report, which documents recent trends in the Java community based on monitoring the Java applications connected to its platform. …
The data connectivity company CData has announced the release of CData Sync Cloud, a cloud-based ETL/ELT tool that brings the functionality of CData Sync to the cloud. The platform allows customers to replicate data from on-premises to on-premises, cloud to cloud, on-premises to cloud, and cloud to on-premises. CData Sync Cloud provides integrations with over …
AWS has just announced that Amazon Q is now generally available. Amazon Q is a generative AI assistant designed for business use and it comes in two flavors: Amazon Q Developer and Amazon Q Business. The developer version can assist with tasks such as code generation, testing, debugging, while the business version can be used …
GitHub has released a technical preview for a new Copilot-based platform designed to help out across all steps of the development life cycle, from planning to building to testing. “Copilot Workspace represents a radically new way of building software with natural language, and is expressly designed to deliver–not replace–developer creativity, faster and easier than ever …
OpenText is releasing a new solution, Open Source Select, designed to help developers find open source libraries that comply with their organization’s security policy. Developers can search for open source libraries and will be shown only the results that they can actually use. According to OpenText, this helps cut down on the time spent looking …
Microsoft has announced that it is open sourcing MS-DOS 4.0, in collaboration with IBM, who developed portions of the code. It will be available under the MIT license. This came about because an English researcher, Connor “Starfrost” Hyde was exploring the relationship between DOS 4, MT-DOS (Multitasking DOS), and OS/2, and was in communication with …
Most organizations understand the value of secrets management — which is the practice of securely storing development credentials like API keys, certificates, and SSH keys — but not all organizations are following secure secrets management practices. According to the secrets management provider Bitwarden’s 2024 developer survey, which polled 600 developers across different industries, 86% of …
Apple has released eight new small LLMs as part of CoreNet, which is the company’s library for training deep neural networks. The models, called OpenELM (Open-source Efficient Language Models), come in eight different options: four are pre trained models and four are instruction tuned and each comes in sizes of 270M, 250M, 1.1B, and 3B …
The DevOps company Copado has announced a new AI assistant for Salesforce test creation called Test Copilot. This follows the company’s recent announcement of Copado Explorer, which is an automated testing solution designed for Salesforce users, as well as the launch of its AI assistant CopadoGPT, which Test Copilot is built on. Users provide a …
Quill is an open-source rich text WYSIWYG editor designed to be customizable by the user. It uses a modular architecture to allow the editor’s behavior and functionality to be changed. It officially supports a number of modules that can be added, including Toolbar, Keyboard, History, Clipboard, and Syntax. Each module also has additional configuration options …
While Generative AI presents a clear competitive advantage, most companies are struggling to harness it. From ineffective outputs to costly missteps, GenAI is driving significant financial losses as companies invest thousands in models that don’t work. But the core issue isn’t the technology itself – it’s the data that powers it. In this webinar, we’ll explore …
Dive into distributed PostgreSQL and explore how it empowers you to deploy globally distributed, edge applications that are always on, always available and always fast. This webinar is tailored for application developers and database architects seeking to elevate their applications’ performance and reliability. See how easy it is to get up and running with a …
Over the past decade, the shift from waterfall to agile and then to DevOps has intensified the demand for a revamped test automation model. The move to application coverage and swift testing times has necessitated impeccable outcomes. With the introduction of generative AI in QA in 2018, there have been significant advancements, reshaping QA teams’ …
AVAILABLE NOW: SD Times and HCLSoftware will be presenting a series of microwebinars about testing. This series will give you insights into performance testing, managing data while testing, and how to design tests with AI. With software complexity continuing to grow, the need for testing is more compelling than ever. In this SD Times Live! …
AVAILABLE NOW: Welcome to a series of Microwebinars featuring Appvance. This series will detail numerous topic related to application testing including generative AI, automation maturity, and application coverage. Featured Speaker: Kevin Parker –VP Product at Appvance Watch the series now …
EVERY OTHER THURSDAY, STARTING AUGUST 24th, 2023 – See schedule & series topics below | Welcome to a series of microwebinars featuring Melissa. This series will detail screening, verification, and other security methodologies to help your organization properly evaluate clientele. Featured Speakers: Jeffery Jones, Sales Engineer @ Melissa & Ben Nguyen, Sales Engineer @ Melissa …
How to evaluate vendor claims of Postgres compatibility In the distributed database market many vendors today make claims about being “Postgres compatible” or “Postgres based”. When contemplating adoption of a distributed Postgres database system careful consideration should be given to the level of effort required to migrate application code. Buyer’s should also look at the …
While Generative AI presents a clear competitive advantage, most companies are struggling to harness it. From ineffective outputs to costly missteps, GenAI is driving significant financial losses as companies invest thousands in models that don’t work. But the core issue isn’t the technology itself – it’s the data that powers it. In this webinar, we’ll explore …
Dive into distributed PostgreSQL and explore how it empowers you to deploy globally distributed, edge applications that are always on, always available and always fast. This webinar is tailored for application developers and database architects seeking to elevate their applications’ performance and reliability. See how easy it is to get up and running with a …
Dive into distributed PostgreSQL and explore how it empowers you to deploy globally distributed, edge applications that are always on, always available and always fast. This webinar is tailored for application developers and database architects seeking to elevate their applications’ performance and reliability. See how easy it is to get up and running with a …
Over the past decade, the shift from waterfall to agile and then to DevOps has intensified the demand for a revamped test automation model. The move to application coverage and swift testing times has necessitated impeccable outcomes. With the introduction of generative AI in QA in 2018, there have been significant advancements, reshaping QA teams’ …
AVAILABLE NOW: SD Times and HCLSoftware will be presenting a series of microwebinars about testing. This series will give you insights into performance testing, managing data while testing, and how to design tests with AI. With software complexity continuing to grow, the need for testing is more compelling than ever. In this SD Times Live! …
