Netlify announced today it has acquired FeaturePeek as part of an effort to make it simpler for DevOps teams to create a portal through which application stakeholders can both inspect a web application developed using JavaScript and leave comments for developers. Matt Biilmann, CEO of Netlify, said Netlify will embed that collaboration capability in the […]
Languages and DevOps: Web Development
Web development has changed a lot since DevOps first hit the scene. The languages used have shifted, where languages are used has shifted, the likely back-end hosting environment has changed – but DevOps has folded these issues in and just kept plugging along. We’re going to approach this from two angles – what languages you’re […]
Top Misconceptions About Low-Code Development
Accelerating the pace of development has become one of the biggest goals in DevOps. After all, having teams speed the creation and modification of applications is supposed to be one of the primary advantages of DevOps pipelines. Yet, far too many DevOps teams run into speed bumps that can derail the process. For some, turning […]
Sentry Updates Tool for Monitoring JavaScript Apps
Sentry today announced it has updated its JavaScript SDK tool for monitoring applications to provide a more comprehensive view of application health. Previously, Sentry’s JavaScript SDK enabled JavaScript developers to insert lines of code that would tell them, for example, how many times an application failed. A new release health capability now also identifies what […]
Best of 2020: Cybersecurity: What Programming Language Is Better for Your Career?
As we close out 2020, we at staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the second in our series of the Best of 2020. As a novice developer, you may be thinking about learning a programming language and starting a fantastic career. In fact, this question on Reddit […]
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Low-Code, High Risk? Closing the Security Gap of Exposed Source Code
There’s no denying that low-code is a rising trend in application development that’s likely to stay for the long run. Its impressive benefits in terms of agility and development time are convincing the enterprise, so it’s no wonder that the industry is on its course to achieve fivefold growth between 2017 and 2022. In low-code […]
Applitools Delivers Cypress and Storybook SDKs to Provide Developers with Ultra-Fast Visual Validation of Their Web Applications and Components
Automated Visual Testing at the Speed of Unit Testing SAN MATEO, Calif., October 16, 2018 — Applitools (applitools.com), the leader in Application Visual Management (AVM), today announced expansion of their AI powered visual testing platform to Cypress and Storybook; two popular tools with software developers seeking to build high quality applications faster. These new Applitools […]
200 Billion Downloads Can’t Be Wrong
Laurie Voss, COO and co-founder at npm (@seldo), tweeted recently that JavaScript packages downloaded from their repository has topped 4 billion. On an annual basis, that would be more than 200 billion downloads. Wow. Just as open source software turns 20 years old this year, these numbers are a testament to the incredible magic that happens when […]
5 Resources for JavaScript Developers
Javascript (JS) is one of the most widely used and beloved programming languages in history. This can be attributed to its fairly light learning curve and impressive functionality. Designed by Brendan Eich in 1995, the language has seen steady gains in use for more than 20 years. JS itself is a high-level and weakly typed […]