Venkat Ramakrishnan talks with Mitch Ashley about platform engineering from Kubecon + CloudNativeCon 2023.
Loft Labs Makes Tool for Creating Dev Environments Open Source
Loft Labs’ DevPod enables DevOps teams to programmatically create developer environments using a tool that runs entirely on a local client.
How Open Source Can Enhance Developer Experience
Developer experience (DX) is becoming more and more of a competitive advantage among developer-facing tools and platforms. A great developer experience that’s easy to follow and implement can truly help a software tool stand out from the crowd. Simultaneously, open source software is all the rage. In fact, a recent StackOverflow survey found open source […]
Red Hat Unveils Developer Hub to Boost Dev Productivity
At its Red Hat Summit conference today, Red Hat unveiled its Red Hat Developer Hub, a developer portal that provides access to an opinionated set of development tools based on the open source Backstage project. The portal pulls together a set of curated tools and resources so that developers encounter less friction and avoid the […]
Salesforce Spring 2023 Release: Out With the Old, A Lot of the New
Salesforce is the connector and enabler of so many critical business functions. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t come with its headaches. The environment is so complex that it really takes a conscious, focused effort to properly leverage all that Salesforce has to offer, as well as stay up-to-speed on everything that’s new and evolving. […]
Introduction to Flutter
Flutter is a development tool for creating cross-platform applications. Flutter was created by Google to help developers create frontends that run on almost any operating system, including Android, iOS, Mac, Linux, Windows desktop and the web. Ready to check it out? You’ll first need to install the Flutter software development kit (SDK). Installing Flutter To […]
Gitpod Looks to Drive Application Development Into the Cloud
Gitpod today revealed it will add an application programming interface (API) to make cloud development environments (CDEs) more extensible. Gitpod also said Johannes Landgraf assumed the role of single CEO for Gitpod, as the previous co-CEO, Sven Efftinge, becomes the company’s first technical fellow. Fresh from raising an additional $25 million in funding, Gitpod’s Landgraf […]
Using Internal Wikis for Web Development Projects
A team-based web development project is always a complex endeavor. It involves different developers with varying levels of experience, different fields of expertise, milestones to accomplish and a timeline to achieve. To facilitate the sharing of information, it’s not always enough to use project management tools like Asana or Jira. Sometimes, a wiki may be […]
Free Dev Tools! But What’s the Catch?
Software companies, especially young startups, are always in a development race – by definition, they are trying to maximize achievements and minimize their burn rate. That means development teams naturally face an internal tug-of-war. On one hand, they seek to use the newest dev tools that the market can offer, targeting their applications to become […]
CodeSee Unveils Open Source Hub
CodeSee today launched a free Open Source Hub (OSH) community through which developers can more easily analyze the codebase that makes up an open source software project. Shanea Leven, CodeSee CEO, said that capability is crucial because making it easier to explore open source codebases reduces the level of effort required for developers to understand […]