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AI, or artificial intelligence, is technology that attempts to simulate human cognitive function. AI has made its way into the software development space in a number of ways. Visit the AI article list to expand your AI knowledge.
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Observability is a way for development teams in an organization to view their program state. Failing to provide developers with insight into their tools and processes could lead to unaddressed bugs and even system failures. Read about the latest observability content here
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In the past, the CI/CD pipeline was simply a place to integrate code. Developers would write their code in GitHub, pass it through the pipeline, and then deploy it. The pipeline has become a much more critical piece of the software delivery lifecycle today.
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Modern cloud-native applications, often leverage microservices, containers, APIs, infrastructure-as-code and more to enable speed in app development and deployment
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The Importance of Security Testing
With more development teams today using open-source and third-party components to build out their applications, the biggest area of concern for security teams has become the API. This is where vulnerabilities are likely to arise, as keeping on top of updating those interfaces has lagged.
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Mobile App Testing involves analyzing mobile apps for functionality, usability, visual appeal, and consistency across multiple mobile devices. It helps ensure an optimal user experience, irrespective of the device used to access the app.
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Today’s distributed software environments incorporate a variety of APIs with every interface your software touches, from mobile to microservices. Each API has to be continuously tested and verified to ensure your software functions as it should. Parasoft’s API testing platform makes quick, efficient, and intelligent work of such requirements.
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Ensure your application’s resilience, and make sure your software performs as expected under diverse operating conditions. (sponsored by Parasoft)
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DevSecOps is the DevOps community’s approach to bringing security into the development lifecycle. Businesses want to deliver software, but cannot afford to release unreliable or insecure applications— therefore security needs to be baked in much sooner than it has traditionally been.
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Securing an application is just as important as building it in the first place. As data becomes more valuable, there are more people who want to steal it and use it for their own personal gain. Making sure applications are indeed secure has always been a challenge, as hackers try to stay one step ahead of defenders.
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Secrets are essential for integrating your infrastructure with databases and SaaS services. Doppler‘s developer-first security platform empowers teams to manage, orchestrate, and govern secrets across any environment.
In 2023, there was an 18% decline in the number of open-source projects that are considered to be “actively maintained.” This is according to Sonatype’s Annual State of the Software Supply Chain Report.
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Development Managers need a different type of content than developers… They need to know what platforms, tools, trends, and issues they should be thinking about. SD Times delivers those unique topics here
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Agile software development has been around since the 1990s, but didn’t get the name until the famous meeting of 17 renowned software development thought leaders at Snowbird, Utah resulted in an Agile Manifesto. The idea behind Agile software development is to reduce time to market by enabling faster iterations of smaller segments of software.
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Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of resources, time and assets. It is the practice that truly brings the business side and IT side together as partners in creating value for the organization.
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DevOps is a methodology in the software development and IT industry. Used as a set of practices and tools, DevOps integrates and automates the work of software development and IT operations as a means for improving and shortening the systems development life cycle.
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Gravitee helps organizations manage and secure their entire API lifecycle with solutions for API design, management, security, productization, real-time observability, and more.
AI, or artificial intelligence, is technology that attempts to simulate human cognitive function. AI has made its way into the software development space in a number of ways. Visit the AI article list to expand your AI knowledge.
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Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of resources, time and assets. It is the practice that truly brings the business side and IT side together as partners in creating value for the organization.
Learn More
Google has announced a new open-source standard for agentic commerce called the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP).
Developed in collaboration with a number of commerce companies, including Shopify, Etsy, Wayfair, Target, and Walmart, UCP establishes a common language and primitives for the commerce journey between consumer surfaces, businesses, and payment providers.
“As consumers embrace conversational experiences, they expect seamless transitions from brainstorming and research to final purchase. That means it’s critical to support real-time inventory checks, dynamic pricing, and instant transactions, all within the user’s current conversational context,” Google wrote in a blog post.
Salesforce announced that the newly redesigned Slackbot is now generally available, offering users an out-of-the-box AI agent that lives within Slack.
“By bringing the full power of the Agentic Enterprise where billions of workplace conversations already happen every week, working with enterprise-grade AI becomes as natural as talking to a coworker,” Salesforce wrote in an announcement.
According to Salesforce, Slackbot leverages context within Slack and connected tools to help find answers, organize work, create content, schedule meetings, and take action.
Kaggle has announced that it now offers Community Benchmarks, enabling AI practitioners to design, run, and share their own benchmarks for evaluating AI models.
Kaggle is a community platform run by Google that offers models and resources for data scientists and machine learning practitioners. Last year, it had introduced Kaggle Benchmarks to provide evaluations from research groups, such as Meta’s MultiLoKo and Google’s FACTS suite benchmarks.
This latest announcement extends this to the community as a whole, allowing them to create benchmarks specific to their own use cases. According to Google, AI capabilities are evolving so quickly that the existing ways of benchmarking and evaluating them aren’t able to keep up. With Community Benchmarks, the company hopes to bridge this gap and provide a more flexible and transparent framework for evaluation.
Microsoft has announced the general availability of its Copilot Studio Extension for Visual Studio Code.
The extension allows developers to build and manage Copilot Studio agents directly from within their IDE.
According to Microsoft, the extension is useful because developers need to have similar controls and processes when developing agents as they do for other applications: source control, pull requests, change history, and repeatable deployments.
Box announced the launch of Box Extract, which intelligently pulls information from content and saves it as metadata, helping organizations automate workflows and accelerate decision-making by making information more easily accessible.
According to the company, a lot of organizational knowledge lives in contracts, product specifications, policy documents, charts, and other types of unstructured content. Box Extract utilizes agentic capabilities and AI models from Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI to accurately extract this information.
Box explained that legacy tools often focus only on extracting text, whereas Box Extract understands document structure and meaning. It breaks the document down into components like paragraphs, tables, and charts, and then pulls out important information from those components.
TranslateGemma is a suite of open translation models built on Gemma 3. They were trained and evaluated on 55 language pairs, and were additionally trained on almost 500 language pairs as a starting point for researchers even though they have not been evaluated yet.
According to Google, TranslateGemma significantly reduces error rates in translation compared to baseline Gemma models alone.
The 4B model is optimized for mobile and edge deployment, the 12B model is optimized for consumer laptops, and the 27B is designed for maximum fidelity and can run on something like a single H100 GPU or TPU in the cloud.
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Jenna Barron is News Editor of SD Times.
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