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? ...
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Recent events, including Log4Shell and President Biden's cybersecurity executive order, have placed the software supply chain under scrutiny. Gartner named software supply chain attacks the second biggest threat for 2022 and predicted that 45% of organizations will have experienced one or more software supply chain attacks by 2025. However, in the fight to secure the software supply chain one particular non-malicious risk is often overlooked: the developer ...
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 ...
When it comes to mobile software testing, expanding device coverage by running software tests on as many devices as possible is important in virtually every context. The more devices you test your software on, the higher the degree of confidence you can have that your software will work as required for all of your users ... Smart hospitality businesses recognize that they can't test on every device, so they need to be strategic about where they do run tests in order to make the most of the tests they execute. There are three main ways they can go about this ...
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 ...
Ask any developer and most will agree that Git it is the most popular software version control (SVC) standard today. Just because it's the most popular, however, doesn't mean it's the most secure. Regardless of whether you're using GitLab, GitHub, or a locally hosted Git server each has its own security issues that can sneak up on you and start a wave of additional issues ... What can you do to avoid repeating the Git security mistakes of others? Here are a few common Git security pitfalls and pointers to help you navigate them ...
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 ...
SmartBear conducted a survey to learn the methodologies, practices, and tools used by the software testing professionals worldwide who build, validate, and deliver software ... What did we discover? First, being able to keep pace with the increasing rates of release cycles — we saw it with quarterly and yearly release cycles this year — is a continuous challenge ...
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 ...
The future of DevOps is bright and the opportunities to utilize cutting edge artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) applications of these technologies will only further enhance its adoption ...
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 ...
Mobile DevSecOps as it's currently implemented has a big problem: it's too slow and inefficient to keep up with the constantly evolving threat landscape. In the typical way of doing things, common tools like pen testing and code scanning identify known vulnerabilities, and the mobile app is then booted back to the development team where they manually add whatever protection they can within the time they have ...
As companies look to innovate and advance, it has become clear that real-time applications are the path to growth. In fact, 71% of tech leaders confirmed a clear link between real-time data and revenue growth, indicating that the data race is not only heating up, but rapidly shifting toward real-time applications ...
Running Java, or any other JVM language, in the cloud comes with hurdles. Microservice architectures, quick scaling operations (scale up or down) to balance load requirements and cost effectiveness, as well as environments such as Kubernetes come with their own complexity in terms of Java ...
We recently published The API Security Disconnect: API Security Trends in 2022, which reveals some striking disconnects between the respondents' experiences with API security incidents, their lack of awareness of their own APIs, and their confidence in cloud service providers and others to provide API security. The findings are more relevant today ...