To secure the software in your supply chain, there’s a lot of hype today about the need for an SBOM (software bill of materials). But what does that really mean for development teams today? BOMs...

Checkmarx API Security was launched to empower the partnership between the developer and AppSec teams of an organization and is delivered as part of the Checkmarx One application security platform.  Because APIs are used to...

Recent studies show a divide between older workers – many in management positions – and the younger ones trying to get ahead. It’s a generation gap, for sure, exacerbated by the advances in technology that...

I’m a big believer in the power of low-code platforms to redefine who can create and how they work. And I believe that it can have a similarly transformative impact on professional developers.  While low-code...

Contrast Security’s free new CodeSec tool was built to help developers secure code quicker without disrupting their workflows, as code scanning is becoming a bigger responsibility for dev teams. Developers are often forced to choose...

Milvus is an open-source vector database that is capable of managing large quantities of both structured and unstructured data to accelerate the development of next-generation data fabric.  According to Zilliz, the database company that created...

Cloud consulting company, Asperitas, has revealed the results of its survey on enterprise application modernization. The report showed that despite widespread agreement that there is value in application modernization, several enterprise IT executives are still...

Checkov, the open-source tool for finding infrastructure misconfigurations, has been updated with new CI/CD configuration policies. These policies can be applied across popular CI/CD frameworks like GitHub Actions, GitLab Runners, BitBucket Pipelines, CircleCI, and Argo. ...

Only a small portion of SAP users have finished making the transition to SAP S/4HANA, which is a version of SAP based on the HANA database, introduced in 2015. According to LeanIX, SAP S/4HANA redefines...

Automated testing initiatives still lag behind in many organizations as increasingly complex testing environments are met with a lack of skilled personnel to set up tests.  Recent research conducted by Forrester and commissioned by Keysight...

The Netherland-based cloud consulting company that manages private and public cloud migrations Sentia has been acquired by Accenture. The deal, the amount of which remains undisclosed, will speed up A... ......

When working on a development team, transparency and knowledge sharing are essential in order to keep track of changes in the code and limit vulnerabilities. This is why creating proper documentation should be considered a...

Zug, Switzerland-based Saleshub has acquired ExactVisitor, and Techtracker, merged all three brands to become Demand, and raised $6.3 million while remaining bootstrapped in the process (more on that ... ......

Feedback is routinely requested and occasionally considered. Using feedback and doing something with it is nowhere near as routine, unfortunately. Perhaps this has been due to a lack of a practical application based on a...

Codefresh, the company that offers a GitOps platform for cloud native apps, today announced that it is democratizing GitOps with Argo for all users with the availability of its hosted continuous delivery (CD) platform providing...

Did you know that service virtualization has been around for about two decades? That’s right. Even before the cloud was considered mainstream, we had service virtualization solutions to help in the development and testing of...

Low-code and no-code technologies are growing in popularity, so much that Gartner is predicting that 65% of application development by 2024 will be done using these tools. And why wouldn’t it be? Low-code/no-code platforms address...

When creating, testing, and deploying software, many development companies now use proprietary software and open source software (OSS).    Proprietary software, also known as closed-source or non-free software, includes applications for which the publisher or...

Half of organizations are still utilizing manual testing to validate applications, and the current testing techniques are unable to meet the quality engineering demands for their digital products and services. This is according to Applitools’...

Pipelines are an important part of the Jenkins ecosystem for CI/CD, and one important iteration of the pipeline concept is called the declarative pipeline. SD Times, in partnership with CloudBees, recently hosted a webinar called...

The team at Microsoft recently announced that the Windows Community Toolkit Labs is now the primary way that the company will be developing new features for Windows Community Toolkit. It is intended to act as...

Developers currently use dozens of tools that need integrating, cost a lot and are almost archaic. Major outages of companies like Atlassian and Cloudflare in early 2022 show that software reliability... ......

Amazon is hosting its Alexa Live 2022 conference for developers building skills, which are sort of like applications, for Alexa-powered smart home devices.  According to Amazon, there are hundreds of millions of Alexa-enabled devices in...

The productivity tools company, JetBrains, recently announced that its complete platform for software development, Space, is now available on-premises in beta. This offering comes with Docker Compose and Kuberntetes installation options.  Space brings users an...