Tag: developers
State of Developer Experience Report Finds Growing API Reliance
Web APIs continue to grow in interest among developer users. APIs can empower new customer experiences and help engineers avoid rebuilding common functions. The technology is also powering microservices and headless architectures ...
Survey: Most Open Source Software Maintainers Want to Get Paid
A survey of 339 maintainers of open source software projects found 60% of them classified themselves as unpaid hobbyists versus only 13% who said they earn most or all of their income ...
Open Source Communities Need More Than Funding From Big Tech
In recent years, major players like Microsoft, Amazon and Google have increased their involvement in open source projects, providing both financial and technical support. More consistent contributions from big tech—whether in the ...
Are you Being ‘Nice’ to Your Developers? Think Again
As a developer, you’ve learned your craft. From your fingers comes the magic that builds the applications that run the world. You can literally create something from nothing! And not just software ...
How To Keep Engineers Happy and Reduce Burnout
Software development can be a mentally taxing profession. It requires intense mental focus, often under heavy workloads, with unclear job expectations and a lack of control. And with recent labor shortages due ...
Managing Engineering Teams During Economic Downturns
The tech industry has faced strong economic headwinds over the past year or so. We've seen thousands of layoffs at public tech companies, along with weak stock performances and a decline in ...
Improving the DevOps Process for Mobile App Developers
Development teams—perhaps especially mobile development teams—have heavily invested in systems to automate their processes and accelerate the delivery of mobile apps. From build, test and release to tracking and monitoring, the mobile ...
Report Identifies Top 10 Open Source Software Risks
Endor Labs, a provider of a platform for managing open source software, published a report that classifies the top 10 open source software risks of 2023. The company published the list as ...
Taking the Modular Route
In today's world of continuous software development and integration, removing bottlenecks and increasing efficiency is of utmost importance. One surefire way to improve this efficiency is leaning into modularity–or ‘taking the modular ...
Platform Engineering: Creating a Paved Path to Reduce Developer Toil
This article is part one of a series of three on the boom in platform engineering and its role in reducing cognitive load and creating a better developer experience. Developer toil and ...
Why GraphQL Will Reign King
After years of development, GraphQL is set to reign as the go-to API for data fetching. But what is GraphQL? Simply put, it’s a query language that allows you to fetch data ...
The DevOps Workflow is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It
While great progress has been made in bridging the gap between developers and operations engineers, fundamental differences in roles and responsibilities, alignment, and access to information hinder further progress. Everyone is familiar ...