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Application Security Optimised for Engineering Productivity
Laura Bell Main presented a webinar on 2024 trends in application security. She called out a shift from siloed DevSecOps initiatives to building an understanding of dev friction, and presenting solutions which optimise engineering productivity. Nikki Robinson also recently spoke about the importance of taking a developer experience targeted approach to security platform engineering.
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Enabling Software Platform Adoption with Self-Service and User Engagement
In order to scale a platform, it has to become a self-service product with software engineers and managers engaged, taking advantage of new technologies. A stakeholder engagement program was established with senior engineers and managers across the company, explaining how the new tools can increase developers' productivity and team velocity.
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Transitioning Discord’s Engineering Team to Cloud Development Environments
Recently, the Internal Developer Experience team at Discord talked about how they migrated all backend and infrastructure development to a Linux-based Cloud Development Environment. Through collaboration with Coder, developers were shifted from using MacBooks to working on machines in a remote development environment.
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Microsoft Launches Azure Quantum Development Kit 1.0
Microsoft recently announced the 1.0 release of the Azure Quantum Development Kit (QDK), a significant rewrite of the prior QDK, emphasizing speed, simplicity, and a browser experience for developers. QDK is mostly rewritten in Rust, which compiles to WebAssembly for VS Code or the web and native binaries for Python.
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Learning from Big Tech’s Engineering Productivity Metrics
Gergely Orosz and Abi Noda published a Pragmatic Engineer article titled Measuring Developer Productivity: Real-World Examples. InfoQ reports on insights from Noda’s survey of engineering metrics used across 17 well-known tech giants. Noda found that rather than wholesale adoption of frameworks like DORA, leading teams use a mix of org-specific qualitative and quantitative metrics.
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GitHub Copilot Chat Now Generally Available
GitHub Copilot Chat, a natural language-powered coding tool, is now generally available, according to a recent announcement by GitHub. The tool, a part of GitHub Copilot, is designed to elevate natural language as a universal programming language. GitHub Copilot Chat, powered by GPT-4, is a contextually-aware AI assistant tailored for development scenarios.
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Building a Dedicated Platform for Frontend Developers at the Norwegian Government
Recognizing the challenges faced by frontend developers, the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration decided to build a dedicated platform to address their needs. It offers services like a CDN, an observability stack for monitoring and debugging, and feature management using Unleash. The platform is treated as a product to drive adoption and improve the developer experience.
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Google Unveils Duet AI for Developers Offering AI-Powered Coding Assistance and Chat Functionality
Recently, Google announced the general availability (GA) of its Duet AI for Developers, providing developers with IDE coding assistant and chat.
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Microsoft Dev Box Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Microsoft Dev Box, a service providing developers access to preconfigured and centrally managed dev boxes.
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Insights from GitHub's Survey - Developers Embrace AI, Collaboration, and Communication Skills
Recently, GitHub released the findings of a survey that involved 500 developers from enterprise companies in the United States, with the objective of understanding their perspectives on the developer experience. The survey revealed that 92% of developers incorporate AI into their day-to-day work, they are actively seeking enhanced collaboration, and placing emphasis on communication skills.
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Treat Your CI System as a Product for Faster and Better Feedback
Improving the feedback time of a continuous integration (CI) system and optimizing the test methods and classes resulted in more effective feedback for development teams. CI systems are an important part of the development process and should be treated as such.
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Improving Developer Experience in a Small Organization
A way to improve developer experience is by removing time-consuming tasks and bottlenecks from developers and from the platform team that supports them. How you introduce changes matters; creating an understanding of the “why” before performing a change can smoothen the rollout.
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Azure Deployment Environments Now Generally Available
At the annual Build conference, Microsoft announced Azure Deployment Environments' general availability (GA). This service allows development teams to create segregated instances within Azure for deploying and managing applications in different stages, such as development, testing, and production, to ensure controlled and consistent deployment processes.
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Amazon CodeCatalyst Moves to GA with Amazon CodeWhisperer Support
Amazon moved CodeCatalyst into full general availability with a number of new features. CodeCatalyst provides templates to streamline creating the project's infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, development environments, and issue management system. New features with the GA release include better support for GitHub repos, integration with Amazon CodeWhisperer, and support for AWS Graviton processors.
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Spotify Reveals Metrics for Success of Developer Portal Backstage
Music streaming giant Spotify has recently shared how it measures the return on investment (ROI) of Backstage, its open platform for building developer portals. Hgh-frequency Backstage users deploy software more often and in less time, with higher perceived productivity, and employees using it also stay longer with the company.