This year, Microsoft went all in on open-source and security and launched a plethora of new solutions aimed at bettering the lives of developers working remotely and on-premises.  Microsoft launched its flagship Visual Studio 2022...

2021 was a tumultuous time for security, marking both massive breaches — a trend that sped up during the pandemic — and widespread action for trying to fix the problem.  On May 7, 2021, the...

GrapeCity, provider of enterprise software development tools, today announced the GrapeCity Documents v5 release. This latest version brings users new features in all products in GrapeCity’s document API suite.  The GrapeCity Documents APIs are supported...

Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021 has been a year of acceleration and enhancements in the technology industry. In the testing space, we have seen a strong pull towards testing automation and the overall...

Skillsoft, a corporate digital learning organization, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire the online learning platform for technical skills, Codecademy. The acquisition is estimated at $525 million in cash and stock. The acquisition provides...

Digital transformation remains critical for today’s enterprises. According to a recent survey, 96% of organizations are in the midst of a digital transformation initiative. The problem is that about the same percentage of organizations are...

Facebook recently announced the release of Create React App 5.0, a major release bringing users numerous new features and the latest version of all major dependencies. A few highlights of the release include webpack 5,...

This year, there were two major releases of Java — Java 16 and Java 17. Java 17 is also a long-term support (LTS) release, the last of which was Java 11. The next LTS release...

While JavaScript is frequently the language of choice for all sizes of frontend and backend applications, it’s not the only option. Nor is it necessarily the most efficient or cost-effective. Increasingly, TypeScript is becoming the...

Amidst the “Shift Left and Extend Right” security trend, developers find themselves needing to implement more robust security practices into their processes. Idan Plotnik, co-founder and CEO of Apiiro, provider of an application risk management...

Over the past year, software development has seen an increase in the adoption of Lean software delivery practices. According to the “2021 State of Continuous Delivery Report” conducted by the Continuous Delivery Foundation, 74% of...

The maintainers of Go, the open source programming language, announced the release of version 1.18 in Beta 1. This first preview release is now available and can be downloaded directly.  The beta release is the...

Doing testing early and doing it often is essential in modern software development because it emphasizes the need to integrate software security testing throughout the SDLC. With the evolution of DevSecOps, where speed is vital...

Bridgecrew, the cloud security company, today announced the launch of Smart Fixes, which work as fix suggestions for IaC policy violations sourced directly from code.  Bridgecrew’s Smart Fixes work by automatically tracking code changes that...

Tailwind CSS recently announced the release of Tailwind CSS 3.0, bringing users performance gains, workflow improvements, and several new features. For a full overview of these new features, visit Tailwind CSS’s YouTube channel.  A few...

Android released the first Beta of Android 12L, a feature drop for Android 12 that’s built for large screens, for users to test and provide feedback as they prepare apps for the feature drop coming...

In a keynote address at the inaugural ArgoCon, Codefresh today announced a new Argo community marketplace, Codefresh Hub for Argo. The goal of this new marketplace is to assist users in optimizing their Argo workflow...

Part 1 of this article focused on the structural issues of how staff fungibility (the concept that one staff member can be substituted for another) can impede project management. The project management notions of project-month...

LogDNA, the observability data platform, today announced a $50 million Series D funding round led by cybersecurity investment and advisory firm, NightDragon. This financing round also includes participation from existing investors Emergence and Initialized Capital. ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced the launch of Amplify Studio at its re:Invent conference. AWS Amplify Studio is a new visual development environment that enables developers to create web application user interfaces (UIs) with...

Pants is a distributed open source software build system designed to facilitate engineering best practices as well as add highly-granular intelligent caching in order to speed up test suite execution both locally and remotely. In...

The latest version of the Uno Platform was unveiled at UnoConf. Uno is a UI platform that uses C# and WinUI and can be used with single-codebase applications across Windows, WebAssembly, iOS, macOS, Android, and...

While we’re not quite fully there yet, we may not be too far away from AI being a major part of the development process, helping developers eliminate some of the more mundane tasks of coding...

When developers lie awake at night, they’re likely not thinking that they didn’t turn around enough tickets that day, or write a certain number of lines of code. Their fear is that they’ve broken something,...