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 […]
0 CommentsDeveloper experience is where it’s at! Developer experience (DX) means taking a user experience approach to the developer journey. DX (also abbreviated as DevEx) is commonly applied to areas like documentation, sandbox environments, SDK ergonomics and more. By improving a developer’s experience with a tool, software providers can increase stickiness and retain more users. Nowadays, […]
0 CommentsThere is a scene in the movie Apollo 13 when the mission control flight director asks why the carbon dioxide scrubber in the command module was a different shape than the one used in the lunar module (and therefore incompatible). The engineer simply replied, “This just isn’t a contingency we’ve even remotely looked at.” A […]
0 CommentsMy roots are in software development. I’ve written tax software, SmartGrid firmware and servers, enterprise integration code for many developed and purchased servers, mapping software, cell phone firmware—the list goes on. The point is development is in my blood. When I look at something that impacts software development, I look at it through a practitioner’s […]
0 CommentsDiligent preparation, clearly defined workflows and watchful monitoring are key to delivering a high-performing DevOps project. DevOps is one of the hottest buzzwords in programming, but everyone seems to have their own ideas when it comes to structuring and deploying a DevOps team. In basic terms, DevOps is the integration of developers and IT operations […]
0 CommentsOrganizations are increasingly using distributed tracing to monitor their complex, microservice-based architectures. Distributed tracing has become essential in microservice applications, cloud-native and distributed systems. Microservices and serverless applications can grow exponentially, which makes observing them at scale very challenging. The traditional logging method becomes expensive, and if there’s an issue, time-series data can reveal symptoms […]
0 CommentsA global survey of 606 IT, security, application development and DevOps decision-makers found that the biggest barrier to adoption of DevSecOps best practices is cultural rather than technical. However, the survey, which polled organizations with more than 500 employees and was conducted by Progress, also found only 16% of respondents planned to prioritize addressing those […]
0 CommentsAmazon Web Services (AWS) is making available in preview a C7gn instance on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) based on AWS Graviton processors. The C7gn instances provide up to 200 Gbps network bandwidth and as much as 50% higher packet-processing performance compared to previous-generation C6gn instances. Announced at the AWS re:Invent 2022 conference, […]
0 CommentsWithout a doubt, SSDs have become the latest trend in hardware storage, and you can expect their use to increase over time. Implementing SSDs in your business can improve productivity and make it more efficient by increasing the speed of your PC long enough to extend its useful life. Here is all you need to […]
0 CommentsAWS services are at the top of the cloud services food chain, and a hot topic for nearly every business considering migrating to the cloud. Along any cloud migration journey, many hidden traps await the unprepared. The volumes you’ve already provisioned might seem like a perfect match—but are you sure they suit your workload and […]
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