Andrew Cornwall
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Atlassian Bets On Improving Developer Experience With GenAI
At the Atlassian Unleash event in Amsterdam, the focus was on using AI to improve developer experience. Learn more in this review.
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At GitHub Universe, Copilot Takes Center Stage, But Questions About The Platform Persist
The big attraction at the GitHub Universe event was GitHub Copilot, the AI assistant based on OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 technology. Find out more in this review of the event.
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Development Team Success: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
How much does your view of development team success vary based on your position in the org? Find out in this review of Forrester’s most recent Developer Survey.
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Should You Care About Developer Productivity?
Measuring individual developer productivity has its drawbacks. Get four key strategies to help your development teams succeed in this post.
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Navigate The Seas Of Developer Experience
Savvy (business) captains know the four personas of developer experience. Do you? Find out in this blog.
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Forrester’s Impressions: VMware Explore 2023
In recent years, VMware has faced major headwinds: It migrated its clients from on-premises to public cloud, changed to a cloud-native application development paradigm, shifted to subscription licensing, had frequent cycles of M&A activities, and experienced unfavorable macroeconomic environments. Despite these, VMware registered modest revenue growth. Even though it grew, it knows it is vulnerable. […]
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GIS Innovations Flooded ESRI’s 2023 User Conference
With extreme heat waves, wildfires, and floods facing populations everywhere, Esri sees the opportunity as well as the danger. Learn more in this review of the Esri user conference.
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Open Source Under Attack: Your Source Is Ajar
The open source world has seen high-profile projects with unusual terms. They call themselves “open source” and “free for research and commercial use.” Whether a project is open source does matter. It could be not-quite-closed source masquerading as truly open - it could be ajar source.
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ISDP: Unified DevOps Platforms Coordinate Development And Operations
It’s been happening for a while. There’s been a trend in the continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD), and release automation (RA) world: DevOps tools merging into a unified platform. CI companies such as JFrog and CloudBees have acquired CDRA companies like Shippable and Electric Cloud. CD companies such as Harness are buying CI tools […]
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Developer Experience Is A Key To Organizational Success
Software is the expression of the business, and the rapidly evolving technology landscape drives high demand for skilled developers. If your business is a software business — and today, every business is a software business — it’s essential to keep the developers of that software happy and productive. Developer experience is the organizational capability to […]
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WWDC 2023 — What It Means For Developers
As has been the trend in recent years, the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2023) keynote has kept its focus centered on consumers — read about that here. Announcements for enterprises were thin — watchOS 10 gets mobile device management support, Safari gets passkeys and profiles to keep work and home tabs separate … and […]
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Google I/O 2023: As Far As The AI Can See
AI was center stage at Google I/O 2023 and much of it was generative AI (GenAI). Get a detailed analysis of the event including why enterprises need to focus on the launch of PaLM 2 and Vertex AI.
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Google I/O 2023: If You Remove AI, What’s Left?
Google I/O, Google’s annual product showcase, displayed a very strong AI focus this year. We saw little new hardware, and even with Google’s “add AI to all the things” strategy, most improvements were incremental, not groundbreaking. If you haven’t already, read Google I/O 2023: As Far As The AI Can See to get up to speed […]
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Plan Now For Major Changes To Oracle Java Licensing Costs
Oracle has again changed licensing rules for its widely used Java product. On January 23, 2023, the company introduced a new license metric, the SE Universal Subscription. It offers all the benefits of the legacy Java SE subscription, plus universal use rights (desktop, server, and third-party cloud) and triage support for customers’ entire Java portfolio, […]
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Web Push Comes To iOS, But Web Apps Are Still Second-Class
On March 27, Apple announced the features that will be in the GA of Safari 16.4, after two beta releases. This is a significant release bringing a number of changes. In particular, Apple has increased its investment in Safari, presumably to address concerns about fair competition. Apple Hinted At Push Last Year Apple had released […]
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The Metaverse Doesn’t Exist Yet — So How Do You Develop For It?
Experienced developers know the situation too well: An executive comes by with an idea, and it’s up to us to act on it. If a C-level has recently dropped by your office to say, “We ought to be looking into this metaverse thing,” you’re in for an adventure. Bringing a company up to speed when […]
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OutSystems Buys Ionic: What It Means
On November 7, OutSystems announced that it had acquired Ionic. A few years ago, that would have shaken the mobile development industry, and even today, it will cause vibrations in parts of it. We see three major dynamics in application development that are shaping the future of software development and this market: The scarcity of […]
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Is USD The HTML Of The Metaverse?
I was able to attend the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC) and focused on the extended reality (XR) track. If nothing else, it was clear that the attendees were enthusiastic about the use of Pixar’s Universal Scene Description (USD) format as an interchange format for the metaverse and XR in general. There’s A Huge Need […]
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