Topic: software development
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Prompt Engine
Microsoft’s prompt engine is a library for helping developers create prompts for Large Language Models (LLMs). Prompt engineering, a technique for enabling specific behavior out of LLMs like GPT-3 and Codex, involves crafting inputs that coax the model to produce certain kinds of outputs. Also, few-shot prompting is a discipline that provides examples of inputs … continue reading
GitHub Copilot for Business is now available
The AI developer tool GitHub for Copilot is now being offered to every developer, team, and organization through its Business subscription. GitHub Copilot draws context from a developer’s code to suggest new lines, entire functions, tests, and complex algorithms. The new subscription tier has a more advanced OpenAI model and new capabilities to improve the … continue reading
Puppet Enterprise 2023.0 released with NIST compliance
Puppet Enterprise 2023.0 is the latest release following 2021.7 that includes NIST compliance, the ability to authenticate users in multiple Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) domains, adds a streamlined user interface, and more. With NIST compliance, Puppet Enterprise 2023.0 reduces compliance risk and the risk of sensitive information being accessed. Users can customize the timeout … continue reading
GitLab announces Remote Development to reduce context switching distractions
GitLab’s new release, Remote Development, enables organizations to directly support developers by letting them establish an environment that best suits where, when, and how they prefer to work. It gets rid of location, device, and complex toolchain barriers to keep workflow distractions down to a minimum. “For developers, frequent context-switching between different environments, navigating complex … continue reading
.NET Toolkit 8.1 released
Microsoft announced version 8.1 of the .NET Community Toolkit, which includes highly requested features, bug fixes, and performance improvements to the MVVM Toolkit source generators. The new version includes custom attributes for ‘[ObservableProperty].’ With no constraints on the types of attributes that this feature supports, this allows complete flexibility in annotations for generated properties, all … continue reading
LEADTOOLS v22 released with .NET 7 support
LEADTOOLS released version 22 of its platform, which adds support for .NET 7, eSignatures, OCR Enhancements, Medical Web Viewer updates, and more. LEADTOOLS is a suite of software development tools that can be used to create applications for document, medical, and multimedia imaging. It includes software components for capturing, manipulating, and viewing images, as well … continue reading
Platform engineering vs. SRE
Although the roles of the SRE and site platform engineer share some similarities and are at times conflated, they’re still distinct. Platform engineers are responsible for designing, developing and maintaining the underlying platform that the application runs on including the infrastructure, operating systems, databases and other components that enable the application to function. SREs, on … continue reading
The perfect SRE doesn’t exist, but the right one might already be in your organization
There’s been an explosion of interest in SRE over the last 18 months and a lot of this has been from companies that are looking at scaling their DevOps or DevSecOps initiatives to look at the reliability concerns of their customers. Vendors are recognizing this and a lot of general software interfaces (GSIs) and Managed … continue reading
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Novu
Novu is an open-source notification infrastructure for developers that enables them to manage all communication channels such as email, SMS, direct messages, and push in one place. Users can start by creating a template where they can select channels, add context with {{dynamic}} syntax, and customize rules to control the delivery of notifications. Novu provides … continue reading
2023 predictions for software development
2022 saw business and technology come together under the banner of value stream management, more uptake in microservices and other cloud-native technologies, and a greater emphasis on software quality and security. What will 2023 bring? These industry experts share their thoughts. Nick Durkin, Field CTO, Harness Measuring developer effectiveness in 2023 In 2023, we will … continue reading
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Point-E
Point-E is OpenAI’s new system which produces 3D models from prompts in only 1-2 minutes on a single GPU. Generating 3D models was previously very different from the image generation models such as Dall-E because those can typically produce images within seconds or minutes while a state-of-the-art 3D model required multiple GPU hours to produce … continue reading
The phases and stages of the no-code development life cycle
Software development is in the midst of the no-code revolution, democratizing the process for knowledge workers by allowing non-developers to build applications. However, this space is still new and sometimes overhyped. Understanding what no-code development really is — and what it isn’t — is key to realizing the expected benefits and successfully starting your company’s … continue reading
