Oracle announced plans for Oracle Code Assist, an AI code companion, to help developers boost velocity and enhance code consistency.
Solo.io announced the release of Spotlight Developer Platform, an internal developer portal (IDP) designed to streamline and enhance development and operations.
An enterprise-grade distribution based on the open source IDP, Backstage, Spotlight provides a comprehensive platform for developers to access services, software components, and tools throughout the software development lifecycle.
“As our customers’ usage of Kubernetes and service mesh matures, they’re becoming increasingly interested in adopting more sophisticated development operational practices like platform engineering,” said Idit Levine, CEO and Founder of Solo.io. “While Backstage is a preferred choice within the ecosystem for scaling cloud-native systems, organizations often struggle to access the expertise required to get beyond the initial installation and actually operationalizing it and integrating it with all their systems. With Solo.io’s Spotlight Developer Platform, we’re streamlining that process and dramatically shortening the time to value in an effort to accelerate our customers’ journey toward engineering excellence.”
With Spotlight Developer Platform, Solo.io addresses the complexity that comes with scaling development and operations in cloud-native environments. Spotlight aims to enhance the developer experience through a unified, intuitive interface for delivering platforms as a product; bolster efficiency and productivity by optimizing development workflows and standardizing development and operation processes; and facilitate informed decision-making through increased visibility and control.
Key benefits of Spotlight include:
- Speed to value: Reduces setup delays to deliver value from the very first day.
- Tool discovery: Makes API specifications, documentation, and tools readily available in a single location within Spotlight’s service catalog.
- CI/CD integration: Simplifies software releases with seamless pipeline integration.
- Curated plugins: Streamlines platform engineering adoption with a combination of custom plugins and carefully curated Backstage plugins.
- Standardized service creation: Enhances production consistency with encoded best practices and template-based service setup.
- Multi-cluster and multi-cloud compatibility: Supports any Kubernetes environment across clouds or on-premise.
- Insights engine: Delivers feedback on best practices, security, and more to optimize operations.
- Powered by Backstage: Leverages Backstage’s dynamic community and extensive plugin ecosystem to boost developer productivity.
- Trusted expertise: Provides support and guidance from Solo.io’s team of experts to ensure long term success.
- Zero-trust security: Creates a central hub for enforcing zero trust authentication and authorization policies and integrates seamlessly with SSO and RBAC to ensure secure communication.
Industry News
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ServiceNow is introducing new capabilities to help teams create apps and scale workflows faster on the Now Platform and to boost developer and admin productivity.
Red Hat and Oracle announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute Virtual Machines (VMs).
The Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University announced the release of a tool to give a comprehensive visualization of the complete DevSecOps pipeline.
Synopsys has entered into a definitive agreement with Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. and Francisco Partners.
Postman released v11, a significant update that speeds up development by reducing collaboration friction on APIs.
Sysdig announced the launch of the company’s Runtime Insights Partner Ecosystem, recognizing the leading security solutions that combine with Sysdig to help customers prioritize and respond to critical security risks.
Nokod Security announced the general availability of the Nokod Security Platform.
Drata has acquired oak9, a cloud native security platform, and released a new capability in beta to seamlessly bring continuous compliance into the software development lifecycle.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the general availability of Amazon Q, a generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered assistant for accelerating software development and leveraging companies’ internal data.
Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4, the latest version of the enterprise Linux platform.