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CodeRabbit now available on Visual Studio Code

Tuesday, May 20, 2025 by Richard Harris

CodeRabbit is now available on the popular Visual Studio Code editor. The integration brings CodeRabbit’s AI code reviews directly into Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code at the earliest stages of software development—inside the code editor itself - at no cost to the developers. This new support enhances CodeRabbit’s multi-layered review approach: contin...

AI development challenges addressed in new update from Mendix

Wednesday, March 19, 2025 by Richard Harris

Mendix recently announced the general availability of Mendix 10.18. The latest release includes new features, performance upgrades, and AI-driven enhancements designed to make software development easier and more accessible. By combining low-code with the power of AI, Mendix 10.18 provides organizations with: AI-powered assistance across the entire so...

Cybersecurity in 2025

Tuesday, February 4, 2025 by Richard Harris

Timothy Hollebeek shares his insights on the key cybersecurity trends shaping 2025, focusing on the evolving landscape of digital trust and identity. As quantum computing and AI continue to advance, they bring both groundbreaking innovations and new cybersecurity risks. The introduction of Google’s Willow chip signals a new era of quantum technology, accelerating ...

Top growth areas for developers in 2025

Monday, January 13, 2025 by Freeman Lightner

There are many ways artificial intelligence can assist developers today, from helping to streamline the development process by instantly detecting and fixing errors to summarizing code and generating documentation. A recent survey corroborated that 76% of developers are using or planning to use AI coding tools. Respondents cited several benefits for using AI such as inc...

Software security in 2025 - Four encouraging trends

Thursday, December 26, 2024 by Freeman Lightner

The good news is that over the last few years software development organizations have embraced their role in ensuring the security of their applications in the face of ever-increasing threats to their organizations. The bad news is that they are struggling with how to protect code without overburdening developers, slowing down releases, and generally hindering innovatio...

Combining sticky headers with full height elements

Friday, November 8, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger

In the ever-evolving world of web design, creating interfaces that are both aesthetically pleasing and functionally robust is a constant challenge. One area that has proven particularly tricky is the combination of sticky headers with full-height elements. As Philip Braunen points out, "Sticky positioning is one of those CSS features that's pretty delicate and ...

Optimizing lighthouse score alone is insufficient for achieving a fast website

Friday, November 8, 2024 by Richard Harris

In the digital age, where speed is synonymous with user satisfaction, website performance is a critical factor for success. Web developers and site owners often turn to tools like Google Lighthouse to gauge their site's performance. Achieving a perfect Lighthouse score of 100% can be a moment of triumph. However, a flawless score does not necessarily equate to a fas...

GenAI quality engineering advancements revealed in new report

Tuesday, October 29, 2024 by Austin Harris

OpenText, in collaboration with Capgemini and Sogeti (part of the Capgemini Group), recently announced the findings of the 16th edition of the World Quality Report, "New Futures in Focus." The report reveals significant developments in Quality Engineering (QE), with a growing emphasis on the integration of Generative AI (Gen AI) and a notable shift in the skil...

Developer Relations Foundation formed by Linux Foundation

Monday, October 28, 2024 by Richard Harris

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, recently announced its intent to form the Developer Relations Foundation (DRF). The DRF is a new community-driven project under the Linux Foundation, with the mission to elevate the professional practice of developer relations (DevRel) and increase awareness of its role as a c...

Best Practices education hub launched by Instagram

Friday, October 18, 2024 by Richard Harris

Instagram has announced the launch of Best Practices, a new section within the Instagram professional dashboard designed to provide creators with essential information to optimize their content, reach wider audiences, and achieve their goals. This educational hub will offer guidance across various topics, including creation, engagement, reach, monetization, and guidelin...

Sumo Logic expands into South Korea

Wednesday, October 16, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger

Sumo Logic announced its expansion into South Korea through a new AWS Availability Zone in Seoul. This will enable organizations and existing customers in the region to fuel DevSecOps through log analytics. In collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), the new deployment will support the region's data compliance requirements and customers' growing need for da...

PayPal Developer Day registration opens

Thursday, August 15, 2024 by Austin Harris

PayPal is set to host its Developer Day for Fastlane on August 20-21, 2024, at its headquarters in San Jose, CA. This event will offer a comprehensive overview of integrating Fastlane with PayPal Complete Payments (PPCP) and Braintree. Attendees will benefit from technical sessions covering REST APIs, JavaScript SDKs, and GraphQL APIs, along with hands-on coding labs an...

Coding in QA automation

Friday, June 28, 2024 by Ramcham Floyd T. Gaid

QA Automation is an engineering role that requires a very high understanding of modern technology. It needs numerous skill sets to take this position as the role must be knowledgeable in writing software codes in many popular languages with different types of methodologies in technology. Coding in QA automation Highly skilled quality assurance engineers with bache...

Overcoming burnout in software QA with surfing

Friday, June 14, 2024 by Ramcham Floyd T. Gaid

Life has been changing and challenging as the future arises. Fear and anxiety is bringing risks to business owners, employees and to our families because of uncertainties of the future. With the technologies evolving rapidly with AI and the Cloud the Metaverse world becomes relevant in the near future. Life is supposed to be lived in happiness with a healthy lifestyle, ...

Gaming app insights report from AppLovin and Adjust

Monday, April 1, 2024 by Freeman Lightner

Adjust released The Gaming App Insights Report, a first-of-its-kind resource for studios, developers, and mobile marketers, pairing global mobile gaming app data with expert insights from AppLovin and its in-house creative agency SparkLabs. Notable growth in gaming app installs and in-app revenue in 2023 continued into 2024 reveals a resurgence across many subverticals ...

DevOps World Backup Day

Monday, April 1, 2024 by Freeman Lightner

On Friday, March 31, we celebrate World Backup Day. The date is not accidental - it has been assumed that on April Fools’ Day, no one wants to discover that potential data loss wasn't a simple hoax. World Backup Day - best practices and pledge for DevOps On this day, cybersecurity specialists from around the world will come together to urge everyone to m...

Crafting modular Angular apps with standalone components

Thursday, March 7, 2024 by Richard Harris

There are major enhancements in server-side rendering, tooling, and reactivity that are available with the latest Angular 16.0.0 release. But one of the biggest improvements is undoubtedly the introduction of Angular Standalone API because it boosts our ability to develop reusable UI elements and libraries while simultaneously reducing boilerplate modules. Crafting m...

Secure software development insights from The Linux Foundation

Monday, February 5, 2024 by Richard Harris

The Linux Foundation published a new report, Maintainer Perspectives on Open Source Software Security, based on a survey of OSS maintainers and core contributors, to understand perspectives on OSS security and the uptake and adoption of security best practices by maintainers, core contributors, end users, and other members of the OSS ecosystem. Maintainer Perspective...

Open source AI trends for 2024 according to Eclipse Foundation

Thursday, December 21, 2023 by Richard Harris

Each year I usually like to make a few predictions about where the software industry, open source, and Eclipse Foundation projects are headed. This year is going to be a little broader, as some large trends are going to impact us in ways that should be discussed and understood. Government regulation will impact the software industry The first trend is that for the...

AI app development assistant lands from NodeSource

Thursday, November 30, 2023 by Richard Harris

NodeSource, the Node.js observability, application management, monitoring, and security platform, announced the launch of the N|Solid Copilot, an AI assistant integrated into the Console of N|Solid Pro. Leveraging the N|Solid Pro platform to capture the most detailed telemetry for applications and paired with the company’s Node.js experts and OpenAI, the...

AI that can understand developer code

Tuesday, October 24, 2023 by Richard Harris

Bito has launched AI that can understand a developer’s code. The new super-personalized functionality helps developers write, refactor, and explain their code. It also helps them with debugging and generating test cases. AI, like ChatGPT, only provides generic answers or answers based on limited information that the user provides. Bito’s AI acts like a pe...

PCI DSS JavaScript compliance tool free from Jscrambler

Thursday, June 29, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger

Jscrambler announced the launch and immediate availability of its free PCI DSS JavaScript Compliance Tool to ensure granular and flexible capacity to meet the stringent new requirements introduced by version 4.0 of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS v4.0). This free assessment tool provides organizations of all sizes with clarity and si...

Generative AI virtual agent from Serviceaide

Wednesday, May 24, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger

Serviceaide, Inc. has announced its AI-Everywhere Luma Virtual Agent and AI-based solutions. Integrating Generative AI, Luma 3.0 provides a quantum leap in efficiency, productivity, cost reduction, and business process innovation. Luma provides the benefits of Generative AI with nothing extra to buy, it’s built into our technology core to improve all service manag...

API governance explained and why it matters

Tuesday, March 28, 2023 by Darshan Shivashankar

APIs are the building blocks of the modern web economy. On any given day the average consumer might interact with dozens of them, from the weather app on their phone to the GPS in their car to their preferred social media platform or e-commerce store. By facilitating interoperability on a massive scale, they've enabled the contemporary digital world as we know it to...

Robots and app development predictions for 2023 from Mobot

Friday, January 13, 2023 by Richard Harris

Eden Full Goh from Mobot explains why mobile adoption is continuing to rise, how companies are increasingly becoming mobile-first, why QA is more critical than ever, what the role robotics is playing in relation to mobile app development, how companies can use plug-and-play to simplify tech stacks, and tons more. Everyone is becoming a mobile-first company. Althou...

Zero trust policies for software releases could be key

Thursday, December 8, 2022 by Gopinath Rebala

Today’s integrated DevOps methodology offers businesses the promise of accelerating innovation by providing customers and employees with new application capabilities faster. However, this approach can also increase risks associated with cybercrime and the failure to comply with rapidly evolving privacy regulations. As a result, minimizing security risk during the ...

New performance monitoring capabilities from Sentry

Friday, October 21, 2022 by Richard Harris

At DEX, the Developer Experience conference hosted by Sentry, the company announced a series of new capabilities to enhance its developer-centric Performance Monitoring, including Dynamic Sampling, Performance Issues, Real User Application Profiling, and Session Replay. The announcement follows a commitment to address the growing gap for developers, who are using toolin...

Provar Manager general availability released

Friday, September 2, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger

Provar, the test solution provider, has released Provar Manager into general availability. Provar Manager, the latest addition to the Provar Quality Cloud’s suite of offerings, is a 100% Salesforce-native test management solution that helps delivery teams organize, analyze and optimize all of their end-to-end and holistic testing activities, within Salesforce...

Record breaking quarter for Armory amidst tech slowdown

Monday, August 29, 2022 by Freeman Lightner

Armory, the continuous deployment (CD) company empowering development teams to easily, reliably, safely, and continuously deploy software at any scale, has highlighted the company’s record-breaking second quarter, which included product innovation, global expansion, revenue, and customer growth as well as continued 100% customer retention. "To have a recor...

The value of BizDevSecOps for developers

Friday, August 26, 2022 by Richard Harris

Gregg Ostrowski serves as the Executive CTO at AppDynamics, part of Cisco. In this Q&A, he goes in-depth on the value of BizDevSecOps for developers, including how it helps break down silos and build bridges among business, security, developer, and operations teams. Gregg highlights how the framework evolved from DevOps and DevSecOps, as well as why it is ...

Productive developers prefer quality code

Monday, July 11, 2022 by Richard Harris

New research from Rollbar, a provider of real-time error monitoring Software as a Service, indicates that nearly a third (32%) of CTOs, developers, engineers, and technical leads feel the most productive when they are creating better quality code and not just more code. Nearly as many (28%) said that meeting and exceeding their managers’ expectations is what ...

Unified Analytics launches from BigPanda Inc

Friday, June 24, 2022 by Richard Harris

BigPanda, Inc. has launched Unified Analytics, a revamped feature that gives IT Ops teams new self-service analytic capabilities to create new and highly interactive dashboards and reports from complex IT Ops alert data. BigPanda is the only AIOps platform that also delivers a complete library of ready-to-use operational and value dashboards that allow users to rapidly ...

Q1 Developer Program Benchmarking report

Thursday, June 23, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger

The Developer Program Benchmarking Q1 2022 is now available, bringing the latest insights to help B2D businesses improve the ranking of their program across the features developers find most important, and optimize their developer program strategy while getting a good grip on their competition. SlashData asked 18,256 developers from 163 countries to measure developer...

Site reliability engineering adoption and best practices

Friday, June 17, 2022 by Jemiah Sius

Site reliability engineering (SRE) isn’t a new term or practice. The practice of applying software engineering skills and principles to operations problems and tasks would often happen even before "Site Reliability Engineer" was a defined job title. But organizing a proactive approach to building and maintaining software drives long-term success in ...

AppSecCon 2022 dates

Monday, May 9, 2022 by Freeman Lightner

The Purple Book Community, a community of top security leaders, announced that AppSecCon 2022 will take place May 18-19, 2022. The virtual event is expected to host thousands of leading security professionals from around the world.0 AppSecCon 2022 dates When: May 18-19, 2022 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. (PT) each day Where: Virtual Conference, Register Today! Presenta...