Netlify today launched a composable framework that promises to make it simpler to build web applications spanning multiple backend services.
5 Key Performance Metrics to Track in 2023
It’s never a bad time to adopt healthy new habits for the mind and body, and for developers, it’s always a good time to consider new best practices at work. As 2023 rolls on, I’ve been thinking about some key performance metrics that help to ensure critical applications and websites perform optimally throughout the year—especially […]
How to Overcome Web Test Automation Challenges
Web test automation is transforming software development for the better. Automation empowers test teams to easily prepare test data, execute complex test cases across multiple platforms rapidly and accurately, and catch defects early on in the development cycle. Modern-day test automation solutions benefit organizations in multiple ways; when used correctly, such solutions can boost a […]
Vercel Optimizes Apps Based on React Framework
Vercel, during its online Next.JS Conf event, announced an update to its open source reactive programming framework that adds support for automatic image optimization along with access to continuous Web Vitals analytics. Company CEO Guillermo Rauch said Next.js 10 also adds support for internationalized routing and automatic language detection and quick-start e-commerce capabilities. Pioneered by […]
JAMstack Boards the Enterprise
Set course for development via JavaScript, APIs and Markup. Engage. In recent years, the JAMstack web development trend has garnered interest among front-end web designers. A 2020 study by Netlify found 1 in 3 sites serving a million users use JAMstack. JAMstack has been viewed as a development style for blogs and startups, but lately, […]
Vercel Makes Front End Applications Faster
Vercel this week extended its effort to redefine how front-end applications are developed to reduce dependencies on backend systems. The company has created Next.js, which makes it possible to build web applications using a framework based on the React library for creating user interfaces that enable both static generation (SSG) and server-side rendering (SSR). The […]
The State of Low-Code Development
As enterprises continue to play catch-up when it comes to meeting their internal demand for new software services and applications, more enterprises—but still, only a minority—are turning to low-code development platforms to try to fill the gap. Low-code development platform provider OutSystems released its sixth annual “State of Application Development Report.” The report is based […]
Are Your Web Applications Prepared for the Holidays?
Three best practices to secure your website for the coming retail boom The holidays are upon us, which means retailers are racing to launch new promotions, sales and other temporary web pages in time for what is anticipated to be a record-breaking retail season. Amidst their haste to prepare, some businesses forget—or don’t realize—that there […]
Akamai Gives DevOps Teams More Control
When most DevOps teams think about platforms, it’s usually a conversation about some form of software sitting on a server in a data center. But many web and mobile applications employ a content delivery network (CDN) as the platform on which they depend most to run. Akamai Technologies is moving to provide DevOps teams with […]
8 Ways to Focus on Cloud Software Security
Cloud Software Security Examined Cloud software security is critically important. Take, for example, health care: Doctors and other healthcare professionals are one of the biggest users of cloud software, yet recent studies demonstrate that more than 15 percent are considered to be operating at a high risk of security breaches, and more than half are […]