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How Continuous Discovery Helps Software Teams to Take Product Decisions

March 14, 2024

Via: InfoQ

According to Neil Turner, continuous discovery for product development is regular research that involves the entire software product team, and that can actively inform product decisions. Equating continuous discovery to weekly conversations with one or more customers can be misleading. […]


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Your Guide to Creating Custom Software

March 13, 2024

Via: TechBullion

Do you want to create custom software but don’t know where to start? This guide will help you develop your own unique software. It covers everything from understanding your needs to choosing the right development team. You’ll get all the […]


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The early returns on gen AI for software development

March 12, 2024

Via: CIO

Leading organizations highlight key takeaways from initial implementations of generative AI across the app-dev lifecycle, including benefits, limitations, team impacts, and lessons learned. Generative AI is already having an impact on multiple areas of IT, most notably in software development. […]


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Making Software Development Boring to Deliver Business Value

March 7, 2024

Via: InfoQ

Given there’s a limit to our cognitive abilities and our comprehension of complex systems, Corstian Boerman argues that software development should become boring. He suggests moving infrastructure out of the way so that it does not burden the day-to-day development […]


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JetBrains Compose Multiplatform debuts UI testing API

March 1, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

JetBrains has released Compose Multiplatform 1.6.0, an upgrade to the company’s declarative UI framework that introduces a UI testing API and improves the common resources API. Compose Multiplatform allows developers to build UIs for Android, iOS, desktop, and web from […]


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Stack Overflow opens API to Google’s Gemini

February 29, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

Stack Overflow, the popular question-and-answer portal for developers, has partnered with Google’s cloud computing arm to develop an API that will give Google’s Gemini AI model access to Stack Overflow’s knowledge base. Dubbed the Overflow API, the new offering will […]


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High-risk open source vulnerabilities on the rise, Synopsys reports

February 28, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

Nearly three-quarters of codebases assessed for risk by Synopsis in 2023 contained open source components with high-risk vulnerabilities, according to a just-released report from the company, a provider of application security testing tools. While the number of codebases with at […]


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Deno 1.40 Released, Features Upcoming JavaScript’s Temporal API and Decorators

February 28, 2024

Via: InfoQ

The Deno team recently released Deno 1.40. Deno 1.40 implements upcoming JavaScript’s Temporal API for advanced date and time operations; and the latest JavaScript’s decorator proposal for meta- and aspect-oriented programming. The Temporal API addresses shortcomings in JavaScript’s Date object. […]


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TypeScript soothes type narrowing pain point

February 26, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

TypeScript 5.4, a planned update to the strongly typed JavaScript variant from Microsoft, has graduated to the release candidate stage. New capabilities in version 5.4 include preserved narrowing within function closures created after the last assignment and a NoInfer type […]


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Java News Roundup: JDK 22 RC2, Multiple Releases in the Spring Ecosystem, Payara Platform

February 26, 2024

Via: InfoQ

This week’s Java roundup for February 19th, 2024 features news highlighting: JDK 22 in release candidate 2, the February 2024 edition of the Payara Platform, numerous milestone and point releases in the Spring ecosystem, multiple releases of Apache Tomcat and […]


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Rethinking AI’s Impact on Software Development and Testing

February 23, 2024

Via: InformationWeek

Artificial intelligence has rapidly evolved from a buzzword to a crucial tool in software development and testing, marking a transformative shift in the industry. As someone closely involved in this field, I have observed AI’s role in enhancing various development […]


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Java virtual threads hit with pinning issue

February 22, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

Java’s virtual threads, introduced in JDK 21 in September 2023 to make it easier to write and maintain concurrent applications, has suffered from a “pinning” issue that arises with synchronized methods or synchronized statements. Oracle detailed the virtual thread pinning […]


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Java News Roundup: New JEP Candidates, Milestone Releases for Spring Projects and Micrometer

February 19, 2024

Via: InfoQ

JEP 466, Class-File API (Second Preview), has been promoted from its JEP Draft 8324965 to Candidate status. This JEP proposes a second round of preview to obtain feedback from the previous round of preview: JEP 457, Class-File API (Preview), to […]


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.NET Aspire Preview 3: Expanded Component Support with Azure OpenAI, MySQL, CosmosDB, Kafka and More

February 19, 2024

Via: InfoQ

Last week, Microsoft revealed the availability of the .NET Aspire – third preview. Preview 3 brings changes including UI improvements to the dashboard, and new component support for Azure OpenAI, Kafka, Oracle, MySQL, CosmosDB & Orleans, and many more. The […]


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Microsoft’s vision for .NET 9 development framework is all about AI and cloud

February 15, 2024

Via: TechSpot

A few months after officially launching .NET 8, Microsoft is now preparing for the next generation of its open-source development platform. .NET 9, scheduled to arrive in November 2024, will be shaped by a “vision” focused on two main development […]


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When to use classes, structs, or records in C#

February 15, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

Classes, structs, and records are fundamental concepts in C# programming. Each is a different kind of type, with different features, capabilities, and limitations. To make matters more confusing, they have features and characteristics in common. Classes are reference types that […]


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Java Flight Recorder eyed for improvement

February 14, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

Java’s profiling capabilities would be improved within the Java Flight Recorder (JFR), a tool for collecting diagnostic and profiling data in running Java applications, under a proposal floating in the OpenJDK community. Called Skogsluft, the project would introduce advanced profiling […]


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Microsoft Graph Toolkit 4.0 boosts search, developer experience

February 13, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

Microsoft is shipping version 4.0 of its Graph Toolkit, a set of components for working with the Microsoft Graph. The update brings the search components to general availability, enhances the developer experience, and fixes bugs. Microsoft Graph is a set […]


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Optimizing Java for Modern Hardware: The Continuous Evolution of the Vector API

February 12, 2024

Via: InfoQ

JEP 460, Vector API (Seventh Incubator), has been Closed / Delivered for JDK 22. This JEP, under the auspices of Project Panama, incorporates enhancements in response to feedback from the previous six rounds of incubation: JEP 448, Vector API (Sixth Incubator), delivered […]


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OpenSilver adds F# language support

February 8, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

Userware has released OpenSilver 2.1, an update to its open-source successor to Microsoft’s discontinued Silverlight framework for building rich web applications. OpenSilver 2.1 adds support for Microsoft’s F# language. Introduced February 6, OpenSilver 2.1 can be downloaded from the project […]