Tag: software development

Applying the lessons learned from the NCAA tournament to DevOps in your organization. ‘Tis the season for filling out brackets, secretly checking your favorite team’s livestream at work and watching your ranking ...

At a conference, I heard a speaker remark that “Dev people are from Mars while Ops people are from Venus.” That’s catchy and captures what a fair number of managers believe instinctively ...

This is the seventh in a series of articles highlighting speakers at SauceCon 2019. SauceCon brings together the global community of Sauce Labs users and continuous testing experts to learn from each ...

In 2018, software development saw exponential growth in areas including blockchain technology and artificial intelligence, and the New Year has the potential to bring even more change through recent developments in automation, ...

Feature flags, also known as feature toggles, provide a means for DevOps teams to test and add new capabilities to their applications without having to take the entire application offline. The downside ...

The 2018 Topcoder Open (TCO), the world’s ultimate programming and design tournament, took place in Dallas Nov. 13-16 and featured the best technologists from around the globe competing for cash prizes and ...

Like any industry, DevOps fosters its own unique culture. And like any culture it resists change, it has inertia. “This is how it has always been done” is an incredible force to ...

Shifting security left during the software development process can be tough for companies because of the sheer number of operational things that go along with implementing security that must occur somehow in ...

The role of software developers has never been more important. Developers touch almost every corner of our lives, from health care and retail to education. It’s an extremely rewarding career—so much so ...

Here’s a metaphor for software development you probably haven’t heard before: It’s like flying a plane. You have a starting point and a destination in mind, there’s a good chance you’ll change ...

It should be no surprise to anyone working in software today that delivery speed is the name of the game. Irrespective of business sectors or B2B/B2C focus, global competition in application development ...

These days, even refrigerators can be programmed to tell you when you’re running low on a certain food or when something has expired. Washing machines, coffee makers and toasters all use software ...

It’s been nearly seven years since Marc Andreessen’s essay, “Why Software is Eating the World,” brought to light software’s role in determining the next wave of winners and losers. Today, his essay is ...

Historically, cybercriminals are as lazy as they are innovative. They can come up with clever exploits and attack vectors, but they still generally focus on the low-hanging fruit in the most target-rich ...

Mantraps, tripwires and tarpits … sounds like the start of a solid spy-movie plot, doesn’t it? These are among the many concepts of physical security that are making the crossover to software ...