While the topic is growing in popularity now, developer experience was not on many people's radars even just a few years ago. One of the simplest, yet most important reasons for the rise of developer experience is that there are just so many more developers in the world ... And as developer experience continues to garner attention for businesses, here are four ways developer experience will improve in 2023 ...

In the fast-paced world of software development, development organizations are under significant pressure to evolve how they build, test, and deliver new products. Internal changes, like a growing reliance on APIs and other third-party components, are increasingly impacting the customer experience, threatening to hurt user retention if quality doesn't evolve. The question is: how are these teams coping under such pressure, and how does that ultimately translate to customer delight? ...

Technical teams driving innovation forward are feeling overwhelmed. In a survey conducted by Couchbase of 650 senior IT decision makers, development teams said they are under-supported and under immense pressure as they champion their organizations' modernization efforts. A majority of respondents (88%) are aware of the challenges faced by development teams. Their top issues include 42% feeling that deadlines and agility requirements were difficult to meet, 40% believing they were being asked to do too much in too little time, 24% finding that they did not have the skills required to complete the tasks asked of them and 23% not having access to the necessary technology ...

DevOps transformation journey isn't always a walk in the park. The road can often be complex and filled with challenges, with the looming threat of failure, frustration, and lost resources. Ultimately, you cannot purposefully avoid what you don't understand. That's why the rest of this blog focuses on outlining the common reasons for DevOps transformation program failures so that you can successfully avoid them and drive your team toward the best chance at success ...

In 2023, developers will demand solutions that enable highly available cloud-native SQL Server availability groups (AGs) in containers, including support for Kubernetes (K8s) clusters — across mixed environments and across any type of infrastructure or cloud ...

Imperative versus declarative deployment — which one is better? The answer: it depends. Development teams may prefer one over the other based on their workload capacity, infrastructure and desire for control. However, we are on the precipice of change. In the coming years, we will see a rapid shift to declarative automation in deployment ... Let's look at why many more teams are gravitating toward declarative deployment ...

Data breaches cost US companies an average of $9.4 million — and by 2031, ransomware attacks will happen every two seconds. To address the scourge of cybercrime, we must all become data protectionists ...