Mitch Ashley

Google today previewed a set of extensions to its AI coding tools that are designed to be integrated directly within development.

Sonar agreed to acquire Tidelift to gain access to third-party open-source code that it will integrate into its static code analysis tools.

Developers face the prospect of being more closely scrutinized to assess their productivity quotients in the year ahead. With the ever-present specter of AI code assistant technologies now offering programmers a route to eliminating the “donkey work” of provisioning, data preparation and application patching (and so on), our software professionals are now supposed to be able to get on with really useful value-added work.

When you provide software as a service (SaaS), it is important to note that operations are just as significant as development, if not more so. You could have the best features in the market, but customers will leave if the service experiences frequent or lengthy downtime or is riddled with bugs in every update. You need to provide customers with value and do so consistently.

Tabnine previews an ability to track the provenance and attribution of code that if generated by a LLM might create potential liabilities.

Legit Security today extended its ability to scan for secrets in software to include any that might reside in the personal GitHub repositories of application developers.

Survey shows reliance of tech leaders on SaaS tools to support software development, with leaders indicating they depend on SaaS solutions.

RunSafe Security this week added an ability to generate a software bill of materials (SBOM) based on the code actually included in an application before it is deployed in a production environment.

DevOps platform company Perforce is forking Puppet, the open-source configuration management technology it acquired in May 2022. Fondly thought of by those who value its infrastructure as code capabilities as a core DevOps function, Puppet enables engineers to see the “context of changes” in any given codebase and view their impact on infrastructure before applications go into production.

DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience.