CIO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Specifically, organizations are contemplating Generative AI’s impact on software development. While the potential of Generative AI in software development is exciting, there are still risks and guardrails that need to be considered.

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

The 10/10-rated Log4Shell flaw in Log4j, an open source logging software that’s found practically everywhere, from online games to enterprise software and cloud data centers, claimed numerous victims from Adobe and Cloudflare to Twitter and Minecraft due to its ubiquitous presence. Image Credits: AppMap.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Alex Circei is CEO and co-founder of Waydev , a Git analytics tool that measures engineers' performance automatically. Summarizing the performance of 10, 20 or 50 developers over the past 12 months, offering personalized advice and having the facts to back it up — is no small task. Alex Circei. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

AI coding agents are poised to take over a large chunk of software development in coming years, but the change will come with intellectual property legal risk, some lawyers say. The same thing could happen with software code, even though companies don’t typically share their source code, he says.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Despite mixed early returns , the outcome appears evident: Generative AI coding assistants will remake how software development teams are assembled, with QA and junior developer jobs at risk. AI will handle the rest of the software development roles, including security and compliance reviews, he predicts. “At

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Coding assistants have been an obvious early use case in the generative AI gold rush, but promised productivity improvements are falling short of the mark — if they exist at all. Many developers say AI coding assistants make them more productive, but a recent study set forth to measure their output and found no significant gains.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

No-code and low-code development suites have so far been used mostly by marketers and analysts. Initially, no-code/low-code was primarily a way for non-technical builders to create (sometimes gimmicky) applications,” said Navin Chaddha, managing director at VC firm Mayfield. How much has adoption increased since?

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OverOps

JULY 9, 2019

Software reliability is a big deal, especially at the enterprise level, but too often companies are flying blind when it comes to the overall quality and reliability of their applications. It seems like every week, there’s a new report in the news calling out another massive software failure. What is Continuous Reliability?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Infrastructure as code (IaC) has been gaining wider adoption among DevOps teams in recent years, but the complexities of data center configuration and management continue to create problems — and opportunities. Why are companies hesitant to adopt infrastructure as code? We surveyed top investors in IaC startups to find out more.

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Xebia

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

InnerSource can be defined as the application of open-source software development principles within an organization’s internal software development processes. It draws on the valuable lessons learned from open-source projects and adapts them to the context of how companies create software internally.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Digital transformation is expected to be the top strategic priority for businesses of all sizes and industries, yet organisations find the transformation journey challenging due to digital skill gap, tight budget, or technology resource shortages. Amidst these challenges, organisations turn to low-code to remain competitive and agile.

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Xebia

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Disentangling Programming Concerns At first glance, all the activities I mentioned seem inseparable, like a big blob of spaghetti code. What do we want to achieve with the code we’re creating? Here, we have to be creative and knowledgeable about the tools we use. In most cases, we need the ability to evolve the code.

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CIO

JULY 12, 2024

Good coding practices for performance and efficiency have been part of software engineering since the earliest days. These emissions include both the energy that physical hardware consumes to run software programs and those associated with manufacturing the hardware itself. How do we even know it’s green?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Filevine , a startup offering a software-as-a-service product for legal case management, today announced that it closed a $108 million series D round led by StepStone Group with participation from Golub Capital and existing investors Signal Peak Ventures and Meritech Capital. software-as-a-service market.” Roughly $1.4

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OverOps

JUNE 4, 2019

The following is a guest post from Herb Krasner, an Advisory Board Member for the Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) and industry consultant for 5 decades. In a previous post , we looked at the magnitude and impact of the soaring cost of poor software quality in the US and where those hidden costs are typically found.

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Xebia

MAY 13, 2024

But what about a software developer? This was in no small part due to the culture at Oracle. This seems to be a natural career path: Software developers become team leads, and team leads become managers or architects. So, I decided to go back to software development. Easy to see.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

They bonded over frustrations at their respective jobs in what seemed like a hardware industry left behind to rely on PDFs and email to get things done versus software development. “It AllSpice’s design review function. Flux , which raised $12 million last October, is developing a browser-based hardware design tool.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Frank Roe Contributor Share on Twitter Frank Roe is CEO of SmartBear , a provider of software development and visibility tools. It is essential to approach the decision and process with diligence and forethought. The company has completed eight acquisitions in less than five years.

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Xebia

JANUARY 27, 2024

However, the purpose of this blog is not just to describe the toolset, but to share our development approach and some valuable lessons I (re)learned along the way. Our development approach Here is an overview of how we introduce new capabilities into the tool: 1. This typically concludes with the removal of the original code.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2022

Below is a list of 10 intellectual property and commercial areas that investors look at during due diligence, and steps that startups can take to better prepare for these issues. The fact that a person is employed by a company is typically insufficient for it to secure any IP developed by the employee.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Outsourcing engineering has become more common in recent years, so we’re starting a new initiative to profile the software consultants who startups love to work with the most. ” The software development agency has worked on more than 350 digital products since its founding in 2009, for startups of all sizes.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Software development Agentic AI promises to transform AI coding assistants, or copilots, into smarter software development tools that write large pieces of code. The agent, when well built, will say, ‘Oh, wait, this is ambiguous; I need to go back and use a tool for this.’”

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CIO

JANUARY 25, 2024

Software developers, no matter how skilled, face tasks they’re not very good at. Generative AI platforms like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT have been trained on billions of lines of code for many programming languages and are surprisingly good at predicting what lines of code developers should use next.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

QA Wolf , a cloud-based platform designed to detect bugs in software, today exited stealth and announced a $20 million funding round led by Inspired Capital with participation from Notation Capital, Operator Partners and Thiel Capital and several angel investors (among them Peter Thiel). Neither, obviously, are very desirable scenarios.

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CIO

JUNE 3, 2024

AI-generated code promises to reshape cloud-native application development practices, offering unparalleled efficiency gains and fostering innovation at unprecedented levels. This dichotomy underscores the need for a nuanced understanding between AI-developed code and security within the cloud-native ecosystem.

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Henrik Warne

JANUARY 10, 2024

“Software design is preparation for change; change of behavior” Tidy First? It is a short little book, only about 100 pages (and lots of white space on them), but it contains some deep insights about software development. I have noticed that many developers are reluctant to introduce explaining variables/constants.

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Martin Fowler

JANUARY 28, 2021

Tooling supports and encourages code review of the contribution before accepting the request. Pull requests have become widely used in software development, but critics are concerned by the addition of integration friction which can prevent continuous integration.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Project management is a business discipline that involves applying specific processes, knowledge, skills, techniques, and tools to successfully deliver outcomes that meet project goals. Develop relevant KPIs. Revisit, review, re-forecast. Project management software falls into multiple categories. Budget for surprises.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

Today, a company that has taken that model to create an effective way to integrate email, calendars and other tools into other apps using APIs is announcing a big round of funding to expand its business. At the same time, building new, say, tools, or building a bridge to integrate an existing application, can be time-consuming and complex.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Shelley McKinley Contributor Share on Twitter Shelley McKinley is chief legal officer at GitHub, home to more than 100 million software developers. Supreme Court reviewed Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. That’s especially important when a platform has over 330 million software repositories.

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CIO

JULY 31, 2023

With all the articles about all the amazing AI developments, there’s plenty of hand-wringing around the possibility that we, as software developers, could soon be out of a job, replaced by artificial intelligence. The real problems are usually centered around what the software is supposed to do.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

With Slack being acquired by Salesforce for $28 billion, the world of collaborative tools for teams is on fire right now. Space combines general collaboration tools: chats, team and project management, meeting scheduling and documents with workflows for specific verticals. Notion is super hot and last year Frame.io

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CIO

OCTOBER 25, 2022

By Milan Shetti, CEO Rocket Software In today’s volatile markets, agile and adaptable business operations have become a necessity to keep up with constantly evolving customer and industry demands.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2022

No further due diligence? As history often reminds us , due diligence matters from a human perspective — and vetting a founder beyond their ability to attract talent can save firms from headaches or legal woes. “Our approach? This is our data set, let’s see if we can put money into them,” he said. No problem.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

And if you’ve added “AI” to your pitch deck only to make it more appealing, here’s some more bad news: FOMO is passé, and due diligence is the new black. Specifically, we are spending time developing our theses around and seeking founders building the next generation of cloud/computing infrastructure, industry 4.0

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CIO

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The need for efficient software development has taken on greater importance as enterprises introduce more and more digital services and add automation capabilities to enhance business processes. Managing software projects might not be at the top of CIOs’ priority lists , but it is something that IT leaders will have to master.

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CIO

DECEMBER 3, 2024

CIOs and other executives identified familiar IT roles that will need to evolve to stay relevant, including traditional software development, network and database management, and application testing. And while AI is already developing code, it serves mostly as a productivity enhancer today, Hafez says.

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