Automated service to service access emerges from Otterize
Tuesday, April 18, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger
Otterize, an open-source solution that's re-inventing how to connect services securely, to each other and to their infrastructures, today announced $11.5M in seed funding and publicly unveiled its new Otterize Cloud product, which is now in GA. The round was led by Index Ventures, followed by Dig Ventures, and Vine Ventures, with participation by Jibe Ventures, Crew...
Tech hiring surges in 2021
Wednesday, August 25, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Tech job postings increased 16% in the second quarter of 2021, with locations, occupations, skills, and employers across the country experiencing strong quarter-over-quarter growth, according to the Q2 2021 Tech Job Report from Dice, a DHI Group, Inc. brand (NYSE: DHX).
Nationwide tech hiring surges in the second quarter of 2021
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Clubhouse user increase surpasses 100k
Wednesday, April 1, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Clubhouse announced that its registered user base has increased from 30,000 to 100,000 since September 2019. Customers include the fastest-growing organizations like Dataiku, Glitch, LaunchDarkly and Scale AI.
Software project management tools are either too simple and do not scale as teams grow or they are overly complex to the point where the only choice is to adop...
Improving software quality through Anaxi
Monday, December 2, 2019 by Christian Hargrave
Anaxi announced the mobile availability of Sentry application monitoring and error reporting, giving product development teams the ability to manage their software projects through the entire lifecycle from inception to production – improving software quality with user data gathered by Sentry.
Anaxi’s app integrates the tools that developers are already u...
How to hire top technical talent
Monday, October 28, 2019 by Richard Harris
We recently spoke with Maria Chung, VP of People at HackerRank about hiring technical talent. HackerRank is a technology hiring platform that is the standard for assessing developer skills for over 1,500+ companies around the world. The current methods for technical interviewing fall flat when it comes to showcasing a candidate’s true skills. By enabling...
PostCon 2019 takeaways
Thursday, October 3, 2019 by Richard Harris
API developers came from silicon valley and beyond to attend the second annual POST/CON 2019 event, which has now passed. Postman users and customer presenters have shared their biggest take-ways (pasted below). The event was very successful for hundreds of attendees that work in API development offering an opportunity to learn first-hand how other enterprises and Postm...
Code platform Pulumi 1.0 released
Monday, September 9, 2019 by Freeman Lightner
Pulumi Corporation announced the general availability of version 1.0 of its modern Infrastructure as Code platform. Pulumi 1.0 introduces new capabilities designed to help developer and operations teams overcome organizational silos and achieve best-in-class levels of productivity, reliability, and security on any cloud using familiar programming languages and open-sour...
The cloud infrastructure startup war brewing
Tuesday, July 30, 2019 by Richard Harris
Cloud infrastructure startups have traditionally faced an uphill battle as they strive to gain footing against market leaders like AWS and Google. As a result, venture investors have tended to shy away from these startups on the assumption that the cloud platforms will eventually eradicate all competition in the market.
Eric Anderson, Principal at Scale Venture Partn...
Identifying company influencers to help with automation projects
Monday, July 8, 2019 by Richard Harris
Instagram influencers may be all the rage, but it’s time organizations shift the focus away from external influencers to internal ones. And, this isn’t a task for your CMO, rather it’s one the CIO can tackle.
CIOs, raise your hand if you already are or have plans to implement automation technology at your organization. If you were to ask this questi...
App development demand and low code spotlighted in new report
Tuesday, May 21, 2019 by Richard Harris
OutSystems has published its sixth annual research report on the state of application development and the challenges faced by development and delivery teams. The State of Application Development, 2019: Is IT Ready for Disruption? unveils detailed survey results from over 3,300 IT professionals in all industries across the world.
The new research report provides in-de...
Atlassian to acquire AgileCraft for $166M
Monday, March 25, 2019 by Richard Harris
Atlassian Corporation Plc announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire AgileCraft. AgileCraft helps enterprise organizations build and manage a ‘master plan’ of their most strategic projects and workstreams. Business leaders use AgileCraft to map strategic projects to the distributed work required to deliver them, providing better vis...
More companies want fairness to open source license enforcement
Monday, November 12, 2018 by Richard Harris
Red Hat, Inc. has announced that Adobe, Alibaba, Amadeus, Ant Financial, Atlassian, Atos, AT&T, Bandwidth, Etsy, GitHub, Hitachi, NVIDIA, Oath, Renesas, Tencent, and Twitter have joined an ongoing industry effort to combat harsh tactics in open source license enforcement by adopting the GPL Cooperation Commitment. By making this commitment, these 16 corporate leader...
Atlassian acquires OpsGenie plus launches new Jira Ops product
Tuesday, September 4, 2018 by Richard Harris
Today is an exciting day for Atlassian. At their annual European user conference, Summit Europe, they announced two major pieces of news: the acquisition of OpsGenie and the launch of their latest product, Jira Ops. These two announcements help to demonstrate their strategic focus on the IT market. As IT is being transformed by software, it presents a major opportunity ...
Reporting bugs just got a little easier
Tuesday, September 4, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Filing bugs is a critical component of the QA process, but it can be time-consuming and cumbersome. Teams are often sidetracked into performing important yet tedious tasks including: screenshotting software issues, annotating them with details, downloading them into a separate Jira or Trello board and manually logging them for others to be able to reproduce the bug and ...
New Tosca release enhances SAP testing and automation
Monday, March 12, 2018 by Richard Harris
Tricentis, has announced the 11.1 release of Tricentis Tosca. Tosca 11.1 release adds a number of new features around SAP testing, BI/data warehouse testing, mobile, test data management, and more.“Maintaining our position as the industry’s most innovative test automation platform requires supporting the most complex applications in our customer’s portfolios,” said Dr. ...
Atlassian unveils first Stride news since launch
Wednesday, February 28, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Atlassian has announced that Stride now allows its users to customize the platform to their exact liking by using new API capabilities that specialize in custom apps and bot development. Stride is the first product built on the new Atlassian API platform and takes advantage of Atlassian's new app management console. Atlassian also made the announcement that they built o...
Website testing platform BrowserStack closes $50M
Wednesday, January 31, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
For those testing websites you'll be happy to know that BrowserStack has announced a $50 million Series A investment from Accel for a minority equity position. The investment will fuel the company's testing infrastructure for the internet and allows the company to expand team and raise global brand awareness. The deal was led by Accel's Ryan Sweeney, Nate Niparko, and S...
1 year after Atlassian acquisition Trello unveils new platform
Friday, January 26, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Atlassian has unveiled a redesigned directory for Trello integrations (or as Trello calls them “Power-Ups”) for users to discover the 80+ partner apps available on the Trello platform. The revamped Power-Up Directory is the latest in a series of updates to the Trello ecosystem one year after its $425M acquisition by Atlassian.After officially launching the Power-Up...
Feedback by BugReplay announced for Google Chrome
Wednesday, August 23, 2017 by Richard Harris
BugReplay has announced the availability of “Feedback by BugReplay,” a bug reporting tool that helps users quickly and accurately submit detailed bug reports about website problems to customer support teams. Downloadable as a Google Chrome extension, Feedback creates a synchronized screen recording of a website user’s actions, network traffic, JavaScript logs and other ...
Atlassian JIRA gets a new exploratory testing tool
Thursday, July 13, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Tricentis has released an exploratory testing tool available as a native add-on for Atlassian JIRA. The Tricentis session-based exploratory testing tool simplifies the planning, documentation, and reporting of exploratory testing directly within the JIRA environment - with full traceability between exploratory test results and the associated JIRA issues. Explorator...
Improve mobile app security by turning it into code
Monday, May 8, 2017 by Jeff Williams
Why is application security such a pain? One of the hard problems with application security is that there are a zillion different ways that things can go wrong. Far more than any one person can be expert in. It's unfair to think that a software developer, who is already supposed to be expert in all the latest software languages, frameworks and best practices, should als...
Red Hat and Avi Networks join forces to automate the enterprise app lifecycle
Wednesday, May 3, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Avi Networks has collaborated with Red Hat to simplify and automate the enterprise application development and deployment lifecycle. Through the collaboration, Avi Networks and Red Hat integrated technologies to give enterprises the combined power of a container application platform, IT automation, software load balancing, and container networking services. With the con...
DevOps for Big Data with Pepperdata
Wednesday, April 19, 2017 by Richard Harris
Despite huge investments in big data applications, there’s still a bottleneck as developers and operators try to find effective and efficient ways to adjust and correct their big data applications’ code. As a result, companies deploying applications suffer from decreased developer productivity and cluster efficiency - a critical flaw to keep up with today’s big data inf...
DevOps maturity report from Atlassian
Monday, April 17, 2017 by Richard Harris
xMatters, a provider of integration-driven collaboration to proactively resolve issues, and Atlassian Corporation PLC, a provider of team collaboration and productivity software, have announced the results of their DevOps Maturity Survey. To analyze the maturity level of DevOps teams, the survey measured more than 1,000 respondents in five categories, including culture ...
New release of Aqua security platform includes secrets management
Friday, February 3, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Aqua Security, a platform provider for securing containerized applications, has announced the release of version 2.0 of its Container Security Platform (CSP). A major requirement for securing containerized applications is ensuring that containers can only communicate within their permitted network segment, limiting the “blast radius” in case of an attack. The challenge ...
Checkmarx opens beta support for Scala programming language
Wednesday, February 1, 2017 by Richard Harris
Checkmarx, an application security testing company, has announced open beta support of the Scala programming language. The new capability adds the ability to analyze and remediate security risks and vulnerabilities exposed in projects written using Scala code.The added capability not only allows the detection of vulnerabilities within Scala code, but also the ability to...
Why continuous delivery is key for developer career success
Monday, January 30, 2017 by Martin van Vliet
When people talk about Continuous Delivery, it’s usually in the context of how it improves the software delivery process and contributes to generating business revenue. Both are true and valid points, but they don’t directly address the opportunities for career growth Continuous Delivery offers for developers. But keep in mind that Continuous Delivery is not a flash in ...
Why release automation is critical in the application lifecycle
Wednesday, November 2, 2016 by Richard Harris
We all know application release automation is a growing area in DevOps, and Gartner has finally acknowledged that by issuing a brand new Magic Quadrant. The Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Release Automation states that this market is poised for growth, with a projected CAGR of 20% through 2020.CA Technologies was recently named a leader in the report for its CA ...
A discussion on cloud sandboxes with Quali's CMO Shashi Kiran
Monday, October 17, 2016 by Richard Harris
DevOps processes are used to accelerate the development of cloud applications, and sandboxes can help by providing actual replicas of production environments for developers to try out new code, or for test teams to get access to holistic real-world environments without the risk of harming a live production environment. We recently had an interesting conversat...
The State of Digital Transformation Report 2016
Friday, October 14, 2016 by Christian Hargrave
Ping Identity has announced the availability of “The State of Digital Transformation Report 2016,” which highlights that digital transformation is a top priority and source of anxiety for enterprises, but the majority of IT decision makers have not completed technology deployments to address the initiatives that are critical to making the shift. Security and identity ac...
SourceClear launches integrations across Atlassian stack
Thursday, October 13, 2016 by Christian Hargrave
SourceClear is launching integrations across the Atlassian stack, including Bitbucket Pipelines, JIRA Server, JIRA Cloud, and Bamboo adding a critical layer of security to Continuous Delivery. In addition to Atlassian, SourceClear will bring secure continuous delivery to Travis CI, CircleCI, and CodeShip as well.These new integrations bring automated security checks int...
VictorOps announces a new JIRA service desk integration
Wednesday, October 12, 2016 by Richard Harris
VictorOps announces a new bidirectional integration that connects Atlassian JIRA Service Desk with VictorOps’s real-time incident management platform. This integration adds to an already comprehensive set of integrations between VictorOps and JIRA Software, HipChat, Confluence, and StatusPage.JIRA Service Desk is Atlassian's modern service management offering providing ...
JFrog talks about Artifactory and Bintray for DevOps and developers
Wednesday, October 5, 2016 by Richard Harris
JFrog provides infrastructure for software build, management and delivery in open-source, on-premise and SaaS cloud solutions. Their technology helps enterprises accelerate software development cycles by changing the way developers and DevOps teams manage their binary artifacts. We sat down with Shlomi Ben Haim, CEO of JFrog, to find out more about the company, and to g...
Five Bitbucket AddOns to Make Your Life Easier
Thursday, September 29, 2016 by Tim Pettersen
Atlassian's Git and Mercurial hosting service, Bitbucket, has an app integration framework to go along with it's traditional REST APIs and webhooks. Bitbucket Connect allows developers to embed new pages and features directly within its user interface via securely signed iframes, and interact with Bitbucket using both REST and a client-side JavaScript API. It's kind of ...
The Problem With Sort Of Doing Agile Mobile Development
Friday, August 19, 2016 by Zubin Irani
Agile development combines process, technology, and mindset in a deliberate way. If you neglect any one of those three pillars in mobile development, you’re setting yourself up to fail. “Sort of” Agile just won’t work.
Here’s why: Mobile users and desktop users have very different expectations. On desktop, if your website has low-p...
