Salesforce Spring 2023 Release: Out With the Old, A Lot of the New
Salesforce is the connector and enabler of so many critical business functions. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t come with its headaches. The environment is so complex that it really takes a conscious, focused effort to properly leverage all that Salesforce has to offer, as well as stay up-to-speed on everything that’s new and evolving. […]
Don’t Make Big Tech’s Mistakes: Build Leaner IT Teams Instead
One of the biggest narratives in the U.S. concerning the current wave of tech layoffs is the fact that ‘traditional’ sectors have a prime opportunity to snap up new tech teams and IT talent. This has always been a significant challenge for sectors such as banks, insurance and manufacturing that compete with big tech for […]
How to Supercharge Your Engineering Teams
With the economy still bleak, data and engineering teams that were already struggling to keep pace with business needs are now facing a potential hiring freeze or worse in 2023. That’s why there’s never been a more important time to maximize the productivity and impact of your teams, but the question is how to identify […]
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent is still relatively constrained, so […]
Tabnine Extends Generative AI Alliance With Google
Tabnine has extended its alliance with Google Cloud to advance the adoption of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to automate the writing and testing of code. The generative AI platform provider has already developed its own large language model that is hosted on Google Cloud. Tabnine is now also committing to leveraging the large language model […]
A Seven Point Checklist for Getting SAST Right
With so many physical products—from automobiles to airplanes and medical devices to industrial control systems—now being driven by software, product security has become a top-level concern for manufacturers. Software flaws can not only affect security by introducing vulnerabilities that can be exploited by attackers but also impact safety by compromising a product’s functional operation. In […]
Software Supply Chain Risk Management: A 2023 Guide
Software supply chain risk management (SSCRM) refers to the process of identifying, assessing and mitigating risks associated with third-party software components and services that are integrated into software products. SSCRM involves understanding the potential vulnerabilities that may arise from these components and taking measures to reduce the risk of exploitation or compromise to the software […]
Survey Surfaces Application Modernization Challenges
A survey of senior IT leaders suggested the level of confidence in application modernization projects that many organizations initially had is now starting to wane. The survey polled 200 senior IT leaders at organizations with more 1,000 employees and was conducted by Global Surveyz Research on behalf of EvolveWare, a provider of platform for automating […]
Dylibso Releases Tool for Tracking and Validating Wasm Modules
Dylibso today made generally available a system of record for tracking, investigating, searching and validating modules built using the WebAssembly (Wasm) binary instruction format. Fresh from raising $6.6 million in additional funding, Dylibso CEO Steve Manuel said Modsurfer exposes the internal contents to enable developers to debug Wasm modules and ensure compatibility with runtime environments. […]
Data APIs: Realizing the Future of Data Warehousing
Data is the currency of business in today’s digital economy, with organizations collecting mountains of data from their customers, products and services. Enterprises are increasingly turning to data warehouses to store this valuable enterprise data and to make it useful and actionable. Data APIs–both GraphQL and REST–are emerging as a tool to power frictionless and […]
Postman Releases Tool for Building Apps Using APIs
Postman today made generally available a visual tool infused with artificial intelligence (AI) that makes it simpler to build software by invoking application programming interfaces (APIs) found on its network. Shamasis Bhattacharya, chief software architect for Postman API, said Postman Flows makes it possible to use a low-code tool to build software using tens of […]
What DevOps Leadership Should Look Like
Implementing DevOps has become a major focus, but the practice’s attempt to provide organizational support and streamline production systems simultaneously leaves developers with no clear hierarchical structure. We know we need DevOps and we know it helps, but we also know that without proper leadership or structure, it can be misunderstood and undervalued. To build […]
HPE to Acquire OpsRamp to Gain AIOps Platform
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) this week revealed it is acquiring OpsRamp to gain access to a platform for embedding artificial intelligence in IT operations (AIOps). Latha Vishnubhotla, chief platform officer in the office of the CTO for HPE, said the company would embed the machine learning technology developed by OpsRamp across its entire portfolio in addition […]
Oracle Makes Java 20 Platform Generally Available
At an Oracle DevLive Level Up event, Oracle today announced the availability of a Java 20 update that makes a range of innovations more accessible to application development teams. Georges Saab, senior vice president of development for the Java Platform and chair of the OpenJDK Governing Board for Oracle, said the latest version of the […]
Awareness of Software Supply Chain Security Issues Improves
A global survey of 167 software professionals suggested that, while there is a lot more awareness of application security issues, the adoption of DevSecOps best practices is still not pervasive. The survey, conducted by Chainguard, the Eclipse Foundation, the Rust Foundation and the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), found that just over half (51%) of […]
Why Observability is Important for Development Teams
Observability, which allows development teams to understand better how their systems behave in production, is critical to successful software delivery. According to Gartner, by 2026, 70% of organizations that successfully applied this practice will achieve shorter latency for decision-making, enabling competitive advantage for target business or IT processes. Observability allows development teams to identify and […]
5 Unusual Ways to Improve Code Quality
Code quality refers to how well-written and maintainable software code is. It encompasses factors such as readability, efficiency, scalability, reliability, maintainability and security. High code quality ensures that software is easy to understand, modify and extend, has fewer bugs and is less likely to break down. It also reduces development time and costs and improves […]
Bug Bounty Vs. Crowdtesting Programs
Digital quality and excellent user experiences are more important today than ever. When a digital experience doesn’t work as expected or is rife with friction points or glitches, customers are quick to give up and move on to a better, easier solution. Bugs and defects often come with high stakes and can result in loss […]
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent is still relatively constrained, so […]
Grafana Labs Acquires Pyroscope to Add Code Profiling Capability
Grafana Labs this week announced it acquired Pyroscope and plans to merge Pyroscope’s open source continuous profiling project with the open source continuous profiling database that Grafana Labs launched last year. Richard Hartmann, director of community at Grafana Labs, said after logs, metrics and traces, continuous profiling is now the fourth pillar of observability that […]
Four Technologies Transforming Data and Driving Change
Data is getting a facelift in 2023 courtesy of event-driven architecture (EDA). These four technologies are set to transform DevOps and IT operations over the next year–whether it be how companies make use of data or the customer experience they offer. 1. Applied Observability: A Powerful Source of Decision-Making Applied observability has been recognized by […]
How Database DevOps Fuels Digital Transformation
In today’s real-time, hyperconnected reality, data is a core driver behind most digital strategies. User data is constantly gathered and shared across various technology backends and platforms—as is system performance data to inform engineers. Data is pivotal for everything, from generating machine learning models, refining user experiences and even supporting new data-centric services. But although […]
Large Organizations Are Embracing AIOps
A survey of 265 IT leaders found the primary reason organizations are applying artificial intelligence to IT operations (AIOps) is to improve service and application availability and performance (60%), followed closely by automation of operations (58%) and processes (54%). Conducted on behalf of OpsRamp, a provider of an AIOps platform, the survey polled 138 IT […]