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Beyond Waterfall and Agile: DevOps the Next Frontier

Software development is constantly evolving, from technologies to best practices to methodologies. But the end goal remains the same: how can we bring new features to market faster to keep our customers happy without sacrificing the quality of our product? Enter DevOps. DevOps is an engineering culture or philosophy that aims to increase the speed and efficiency of the software development process so companies can innovate faster while maintaining the integrity of their product.

Katalon Is Deprecating Support for .ZIP-based Repositories

What: Katalon is deprecating its embedded script repository based on uploads of.ZIP files. Why: Katalon wants to encourage QA teams to adopt industry best practices by using generally available version control systems as script repositories. Katalon has integrations available for a number of the most popular Git-based repositories. Who is affected: All users that have imported.ZIP-based repositories into Katalon TestOps and Katalon Studio instead of integrating to version control systems.

Developers Are Fed Up. They want More Fulfilling Work. This Is how Low-Code can Help

We should be skeptical of doomsday commentary about worker burnout and the “great resignation”, but also keenly aware that things have changed, that worker engagement is on life support, and that fed up workers are costing the global economy a staggering $8.1 trillion a year. So, what the heck happened to work since the pandemic began? Turns out just 20% of global workers are engaged with their work, including 36% of workers in the U.S. followed by 11% in the U.K. and Western Europe.

Why k6 does not support multiple scripting languages?

At k6 we regularly get a request to support another programming language in addition to JavaScript. Go developers would like to write test scripts in Go, Java developers migrating from jMeter would like to write tests in Java. We have evaluated these requests and discussed in detail internally if this is a good direction for the k6 tool. Ultimately we have decided against supporting more programming languages for scripting. Below is our reasoning for this decision.

The Importance of Compliance Risk Assessments

In a world that’s literally had to define a new normal, standards and rules around safety and quality have been scrutinized more than ever before. And that new reality is affecting standard operations for some industries. While the importance of compliance has not changed, the complexity of it may have. Considering how quickly we continue advancing, this increasing complexity may also be part of our new normal. If you’ve not updated your compliance management lately, now may be a good time.

Google Chrome Developer Tools - Part 2

This is the second part of the Google Chrome Developer tools article. In this post we will share show you more of the new Developers Tools that Google has added to Chrome. Remember that Google Chrome Dev Tools is a set of powerful tools that help developers to build better webs. If you haven’t done it yet, you can read the first article of the series.

Producing Protobuf data to Kafka

Until recently, teams were building a small handful of Kafka streaming applications. They were usually associated with Big Data workloads (analytics, data science etc.), and data serialization would typically be in AVRO or JSON. Now a wider set of engineering teams are building entire software products with microservices decoupled through Kafka. Many teams have adopted Google Protobuf as their serialization, partly due to its use in gRPC.