Why AI for IoT is tougher
We know that technology moves fast and that Artificial Intelligence (AI) tooling has gone mainstream over the past year in particular. It has created a significant shift for developers who are trying to 'drink from the firehose' of available technologies to implement at the coalface (well, the comm... Read more
Spotify unveils Confidence, a testing platform for developers
Spotify has unveiled Confidence, an application for developers to test software. The music platform itself already uses a variant of this platform internally. Confidence should enable developers to deploy A/B tests quickly.
Earlier, Spotify released Backstage, a platform that can bring all tools... Read more
25% of tech firms use generative AI for software development
A new survey shows that generative artificial intelligence is quickly making inroads across all enterprise activities. A quarter of all tech firms are said to use generative AI to develop software.
This week Altman Solon released the results of their survey of US technology firms as regards the ... Read more
The State Of Low-Code In 2023
Low-code rose up. Throughout the last decade, the software industry has witnessed the hugely impactful growth of low-code technologies designed to provide software application development engineers with accelerators and automations to make their lives easier.
In an era when ‘automations’ (pl... Read more
Silver Lake to buy Software AG for $2.42 billion
Private-equity firm Silver Lake has made a bold move in acquiring German business software developer Software AG. The deal is reported to be worth €2.2 billion ($2.42 billion). The offer from Silver Lake represents a premium of 53 percent to the XETRA closing price of Software AG shares on April ... Read more
A new first-line for developers: Hello Automation World
Hello World! It’s not going away, but soon, this rite of passage first-line of code that every developer writes when they first cut code might change. Rather than programming an instruction to display those two time-honoured words on screen, fledgling developers could be instructing a bot, callin... Read more
Civo Navigate 2023: Live show report
Tampa has a beach. There's no spoiler alert needed for that insight, obviously. But this modestly sized city nestled on the West Coast of Florida that is much-loved for its Gulf of Mexico sunsets also has a city... and so it was that Kubernetes platform specialist Civo hosted its first user, develo... Read more
Rapid & IATA Open API Hub takes off
Software has a speedy cadence. A lot of it moves extremely fast with some of it in continuous integration loops, while much of it is now also processed in real-time. This reality is further fuelled by the rise of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and the interlocking neural network of relat... Read more
GitLab posts solid third-quarter results
GitLab posted solid results for the third quarter of this year. Revenue totalled €108 million ($113 million). DevOps professionals continue to value the company's software.
GitLab managed to book €108 million ($113 million) in sales in the third quarter of 2022, up 69 percent from the same p... Read more
Google wants to outsource application development to autonomous robots
A software prototype from Google allows robots to autonomously write code. Users write a sentence to describe a task, after which the robot automatically programs the workflow required.
It's the dream of every low-code and no-code platform. Google's software allows users to program workflows wit... Read more