software development
Technical Debt and AI: What It Is and How to Fight It
Even as the COVID-19 pandemic created worldwide uncertainty in markets including semiconductors, food, vehicles and building materials, financial investments in artificial intelligence (AI) companies continued to grow. New research ...Full Article
Improving Chaos Engineering in the Cloud with AWS Fault Injection Simulator
AWS re:Invent 2020—For a long time, it has been serious challenge for IT teams to adequately stress-test cloud applications to find and fix their weaknesses, especially at scale. But ...Full Article
Intel Announces New oneAPI Toolkits for XPU Software Development
Dec. 8, 2020 — What’s New: Following a November announcement, Intel today released production of Intel oneAPI toolkits for developing high-performance, cross-architecture applications for Intel CPUs, GPUs and FPGAs, collectively described as ...Full Article
GitOps Upgrade Targets Observability
Efforts to improve software development and reliability are focusing on standardization around new tools that can sustain continuous integration and delivery goals, resulting in shipping better code faster. The ...Full Article
AI Tool Helps Coders Accelerate Testing
There is relief for Java developers bogged down with necessary but tedious testing of individual units of source code: an automated platform that automatically generates regression unit tests for ...Full Article
Reviews Boost Code Quality, Survey Finds
Software development is a collaborative process and development teams are accustomed to working remotely. But the COVID-19 pandemic is testing these realities, prompting some dissatisfaction with collaborative processes, according ...Full Article
How the Citizen Developer Will Save Us from the AI/ML Developer Shortage
A developer shortage is heading for the workforce and it will hit hard. According to Forrester, the U.S. will experience a deficit of 500,000 developers by 2024. Across all ...Full Article
Doubts Surface in Open Source Survey
Open source software development is thriving, but a growing number of developers worry that momentum cannot be sustained as large corporations continue snapping up startups that helped fuel the ...Full Article
Security Scanner Doesn’t Need Source-Code Access
Researchers at Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute have come up with a new way to scan software for costly errors and vulnerabilities, and do so without access to source code. The ...Full Article
Latest DevOps Survey Finds Enterprise Gains
DevOps, the intersection of software development, IT operations and quality assurance, is gaining adherents as enterprises look for tools and practices for speeding the delivery of applications and services ...Full Article