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CrowdStrike Security Failure: A Security Testing Update

Having strong security testing services are crucial, as demonstrated by the recent incident involving top cybersecurity service CrowdStrike, which rocked the industry. A global outage hurting companies, airlines, and government institutions throughout the globe was caused by a defective upgrade to their Falcon Sensor software. This terrible episode serves as a clear warning of the possible repercussions when security updates, intended to protect systems, contain undetected flaws.

How Generative AI is Transforming Application Modernization

Per the trends suggested by Red Hat, modernization is among the topmost funding priorities (45%) for global businesses - all thanks to the promises of better digital experience, cloud-native, and quicker time to market. Generative AI can fulfill these promises by automating legacy system updates, enhancing user interfaces, facilitating cloud migration, and expediting software delivery.

Continuous Integration for WordPress: Best Practices for Testing and Deployment

While continuous integration is a common practice for most software development teams, the stateful nature of WordPress makes it more challenging to set up. For our open source WordPress plugin, we wanted to integrate our standard build and test process for every pull request using CircleCI. CircleCI is a cloud-based CI/CD platform that streamlines the development process for creating, testing, and deploying code changes.

The Load on Developers Is Increasing

Pushing your code to production without testing? You might want to think twice. In this episode, Bobby Dorlus, founder and CEO of #TheTechHustle, shares the importance of test automation, site reliability engineering, and his advocacy of diversity within the industry. Tune in as Jason and Bobby analyze the stats and real-life debacles that happen when testing gets skipped, as well as those who should be responsible for testing. Spoiler alert—it’s not just the developers.

Deploy and Manage Cloud Apps from VS Code with the Choreo Extension

The Choreo extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) enables developers to manage cloud applications without leaving VS Code. This seamless integration enhances the overall development workflow, offering everything from component creation to monitoring. With the release of version 2.0, the Choreo extension is now better aligned with typical development workflows and offers an experience that's more familiar to users of the Choreo console.

What is Istio Service Mesh?

As a developer working with microservices architectures, you may find yourself facing numerous challenges. Managing multiple services, each with its own potential points of failure, can be complex. Issues such as communication difficulties, security concerns, and lack of visibility are common in these environments. These challenges are not unique. As microservices architectures expand, they often introduce complexities that can be demanding for development teams to handle.

Appian for Financial Regulatory Agencies

Policies and priorities in financial services regulation are constantly shifting. Appian lets you keep up with change in orchestrating the most complex workflows in supervising the financial marketplace, from start to finish. The Appian Platform brings #AI, #ProcessAutomation, and #DataFabric together in a low-code environment so you can unleash digital innovation. With Appian, you’ll automate and optimize your processes from beginning to end so you can compete and win in our rapidly changing world.

Getting the Most From Your Modern Data Platform: A Three-Phase Approach

A robust, modern data platform is the starting point for your organization’s data and analytics vision. At first, you may use your modern data platform as a single source of truth to realize operational gains — but you can realize far greater benefits by adding additional use cases. In this blog, we offer guidance for leveraging Snowflake’s capabilities around data and AI to build apps and unlock innovation.

How To Use Covdata For Better Code Coverage In Go

When you run your Go programs or integration tests, numbers of raw coverage files are typically generated and dumped into a directory specified by the GOCOVERDIR environment variable. These files contain valuable data about which parts of your code were executed during tests, offering a glimpse into your code’s effectiveness and robustness. However, sifting through these raw files to extract actionable insights can be daunting and unclear for many developers.