It is the 256th day of the year, and do you know what that means? It is the day in which we celebrate International Programmers Day. This is the day that is designed to recognize the efforts of programmers and software developers who are involved in creating, maintaining and enhancing the software and programs that power everyday life ...

TechTarget's Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) recently surveyed 350 IT and cybersecurity professionals and application developers to create a report called Modernizing Application Security to Scale for Cloud-Native Development ... When asked to identify their top challenges for AppSec teams supporting cloud-native dev processes, "understanding developer environments and assets to effectively manage security" was one of the top three responses provided ...

Are Kubernetes certifications the right thing for you? Maybe certifications are just worthless pieces of paper with a high price tag and hours of studying things you will never practically use on the job ...

You've probably felt the pressure to deploy faster, scale quicker, and innovate constantly. It's exhilarating, but it can also be terrifying. What if a misconfiguration exposes your entire infrastructure? What if a secret gets leaked in a log file? Despite concerns, container security can actually reduce your attack surface, not expand it, and help lock down your containerized applications without sacrificing the agility that drew you to containers in the first place ...

Development velocity is a standard KPI in software development, while QA velocity is rarely measured. Even with regulatory and compliance demands, DevOps methodologies, and the shifting left of numerous software testing functions, quality assurance topics (like performance, usability, security, and dependability) continue to be an afterthought in 2024 ...

Platform Engineering is not new. However, as API management becomes more critical and complicated, connecting the world, platform engineering is also evolving to be a vital component of modern digital business. API developers play a crucial role in creating, managing, and scaling APIs to meet the demands of their organizations and customers. What should developers understand about the current state of platform engineering? ...

As technology rapidly advances, IT pros are increasingly saddled with technical debt ... But what exactly is technical debt? In essence, it is the cost incurred by opting for quick fixes over comprehensive solutions in software development. Some IT leaders see generative AI (GenAI) as a solution to quickly code their way out of these legacy IT headaches, but more code is not the answer — in fact, it's what started this problem in the first place ...