Where to Start With Secure Design – Tips for Developers
Designing secure software is an increasingly hot topic, and for good reason. In recent weeks, we’ve seen a global effort from governments and cybersecurity agencies to encourage security by design through new guidance and changes to procurement rules. During the G7 in May, the QUAD nations (Australia, India, Japan and the United States) released a […]
How Open Source Software Powers High-Impact Climate Science
Innovations from the open source community are helping revolutionize climate science, letting researchers quickly derive insights from data.
A Practical Guide to Mitigating DevOps Backlog
Every company aspires to get the first-mover advantage in its respective industry. This strategy allows companies to establish a robust brand presence and offer strong product offerings in the market. However, at times, this may also lead early-stage startups to prioritize pushing product features to market without adequate consideration toward stabilizing and maintaining the product. […]
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
Looking for a great new DevOps job? Check out these available opportunities at Intel, General Dynamics and more!
Will ChatGPT Replace Human Software Developers? Probably Not
Generative AI is a concern, but software developers’ skills, expertise and creativity are still very much needed.
4 Salesforce DevOps Adoption Challenges
To overcome the challenge of siloed development and operations teams in Salesforce DevOps, organizations must foster a culture of collaboration and shared responsibility.
JFrog Adds Curation Capability for Open Source Software Components
JFrog is adding a curation capability for open source software that will use metadata generated by binaries to identify malicious packages and software components with licensing issues.
The API Life Cycle Mixer’s Manual: What Goes Into a Single Source of Truth?
In bartending, the mixer’s manual is a trusted source of information. These books can contain hundreds of recipes for classic cocktails, some of which might be 100 years old, while others might be for drinks that only recently arrived on the scene. Mixer’s manuals also can be great sources of inspiration for new, yet-to-be-tested recipes […]
Nixpkgs: How to Build Better, More Open Software
The world we know today depends in fundamental ways on open source software. As providers of this software, package managers serve their respective ecosystems from their centralized, opaque hubs in ways that are sometimes difficult to reconcile with the open source nature of the software they’re serving. I want to talk about the extent to […]
A Supportive Engineering Culture is Key for Recruiting and Productivity
Skilled engineers are in high demand, as their ability to build new products quickly is extremely valuable for businesses competing in a tight market. Strong engineering talent allows businesses to increase productivity and meet customer demand faster, which is essential for long-term success. However, in the current economic context, companies are being forced to reduce […]
CircleCI Report Surfaces DevOps Productivity Gains
An analysis of more than 14 million workflows from thousands of organizations conducted by CircleCI, a provider of a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, revealed the mean-time-to-recovery (MTTR) decreased by about 13% year-over-year. Half of CI workflows (50%) recovered from a failed run in 64 minutes or less. That compares to 73 minutes or more […]
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 part of an effort to better educate application development teams about issues that can lead to software supply chain compromises. That list includes: […]
Optimizing the Developer Experience in 2023
2022 was a banner year for innovation, but not only in the traditional “churning out new features” way. Many organizations started thinking about their processes and how to amplify them to maximize efficiency and employee retention. And when they started digging, companies realized that the developer experience was a major pain point that could be […]
Report: Impact of Bad Software on US Economy Reaches $2.41 Trillion
A report published this week by Synopsys in collaboration with the Consortium for Information & Software Quality (CISQ) estimated that software quality issues might adversely impact the U.S. economy to the tune of $2.41 trillion in 2022. Cybercrime losses due to a rising number of software vulnerabilities alone are on track to increase 42% in […]
Why SaaS Vendors Need to Give Back to Open Source
There aren’t many tech organizations that don’t leverage open source technology. Companies that refuse to import software will rely on a freely available library tool or codebase. Open source is one of the largest and most powerful mechanisms of software propagation. However, open source is in danger. The Two Sides of Open Source Development In […]
Solving the Culture Conundrum in Software Engineering
The one crucial ingredient underpinning our transition to a digital-first economy, more than any other, is software. That’s why software engineering has become one of the world’s most in-demand professions. In the UK alone, the median salary for the role has increased 13% year-over-year as businesses look to stay ahead of the competition and attract […]
Break Open the Black Box of Software Development
If you asked an airline executive what their biggest expense was just a few decades ago, they would’ve easily answered, “Jet fuel.” These days, you’d be hard-pressed to find an executive in any industry that wouldn’t answer with, “Software.” But here’s the difference: With jet fuel, that executive would have told you that they can […]
Building New Value in IT Systems Management
For decades, companies treated the IT system as a cost center not much different from facilities maintenance. The job of IT was to keep the lights on, ensuring that the technology a company used worked and that the costs of keeping it working were kept under control. Those days are well over. Not only is […]
Why You Need to Empower Your Developers
In recent years, the demand for software developers worldwide has increased. However, in 2020, when the pandemic hit, many CIOs pulled back considerably on their IT spending. This trend has quickly reversed. In 2022, worldwide IT spending is expected to reach $4.4 trillion. Additionally, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment in software […]
Don’t Let Developer Toil Affect the Business Value of Your Apps
It is no surprise that the world today is driven by apps. Organizations all over the world are basing their business goals on their capacity to integrate new apps quickly, and they need to constantly reimagine how they interact with and communicate with their consumers and employees to fulfill changing expectations. To do this effectively, […]
Building a Culture of Full-Service Ownership
In recent years, our reliance on software has exploded. It has been more than a decade since Marc Andreessen made his prophetic observation that “Software is eating the world.” Today, nearly every interaction is mediated through a screen and backed by software. With the massive shift to remote and digital interactions due to the pandemic, […]
4 Reasons Software Developers Need a Bill of Materials
The recent Log4j/Log4Shell vulnerability was a wake-up call that threats aren’t going to wait until the industry gets up to speed on software supply chain security. While the Log4j open source component vulnerability caught us all off guard, it did highlight the need for software vendors to be more proactive in disclosing the composition of […]
Securing Software with Intelligent Pipelines
One of the biggest cybersecurity risks involves vulnerabilities in the application layer. After all, the best firewall is useless if the web application itself is vulnerable. Many companies have worked to mitigate these risks by investing in their AppSec programs. According to a recent whitepaper written by ESG (commissioned by Synopsys), 71% of companies surveyed now use […]