Developers’ defensive qualities are only as good as the training they receive The playing field between the heroes and villains in cybersecurity is notoriously unfair. Sensitive data is the new gold, and attackers adapt quickly to circumvent defenses, exploiting security bugs large and small for potential paydirt. The volume of code being produced is too […]
GrammaTech Discovers Vulnerabilities in Third-Party Code
GrammaTech today launched a CodeSentry software composition analysis (SCA) for binaries that inventories third-party code used in custom applications and identifies known vulnerabilities. Vince Arneja, chief product officer for GrammaTech, said the bulk of custom applications today are made up of binaries based on components developed by a third-party that comes in the form of […]
6 Advantages of Microservices
Microservices have recently gained in popularity, but you may be unsure whether this architecture is right for your environment. What’s great is microservices are not necessarily a new beast, as the concepts behind them have been a solid part of software development for decades. Topics such as modular programming, separation of concerns and service-oriented architecture […]
Survey: Organizations Knowingly Deploy Vulnerabilities
A survey published today by Synopsys, a provider of electronic design automation (EDA) and application security tools, finds nearly half (48%) of respondents admit they consciously push code with known vulnerabilities into production because of time constraints. Based on a survey of 378 cybersecurity professionals conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) on behalf of Synopsys, […]
Apollo GraphQL Brings Caching to Client Software
Apollo GraphQL this week updated its namesake GraphQL client software that among other things improves performance using in-memory caching application programming interfaces (APIs). GraphQL has emerged as a popular alternative to REST APIs because it provides developers with a query engine that provides more control over what data is requested. Similar in concept to SQL, […]
Rookout Extends Reach of Debugging Platform to On-Prem
Rookout, a provider of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform designed to simplify the debugging of applications, has extended the reach of its tools into on-premises IT environments. Company CTO Liran Haimovitch said its new Data On-Prem capability extends the reach of a bytecode manipulation capability developed by Rookout to insert a snapshot capture of a specific […]
Camunda Extends Reach of BPM Platform
Camunda, a provider of a business process management (BPM) platform written in Java, this week added support for an open application programming interface (API) to make it easier to integrate its namesake software with applications written in Javascript/Node.js, Python and C#. Company CTO Daniel Mayer said at a time when many organizations are investing in […]
Survey Surfaces Tension Between Software Speed and Quality
A survey of 600 software professionals at organizations with more than 1,000 employees published today by OverOps, a provider of software analytics tools, finds the need to ensure quality still trumps the need for speed within most organizations. According to the survey results, 70% of respondents say quality is their paramount concern and they would […]
GitLab Responds To GitHub Making Teams Free – We All Win
Microsoft’s GitHub recently announced that it was going to make a change to its product lineup by making the team version of GitHub free and lowering the price on a full-featured version. The move seemed aimed squarely at matching GitLab’s offering. Well, now GitLab has responded to GitHub. While both of these excellent offerings compete […]
Stackery Smooths AWS Serverless Integration for DevOps
Stackery today announced a plug-in capability that will allow developers to build and debug code destined to run on the Lambda serverless computing service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) from within an integrated development environment (IDE) running on a local machine. Company CTO Chase Douglas said the latest Stackery tool can be dropped into […]
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