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9 Tips for Working With Legacy Code

What is legacy code? Legacy code is source code that already exists and needs to be used again. It's not necessarily lousy code, but it often needs some effort to integrate into newer systems. That means you need effective ways of overcoming legacy code's issues. What are your chances of working with legacy code? Given that most of the top 10 programming languages on the TIOBE popularity index have been around for at least 20 years, your chances are very high.

Achieving Escape Velocity: Thriving on Complexity to Drive Agility | DevOps & Data Impact 2024

Many businesses are struggling with the large mass of investments, complexity and technical debt of their IT estates. How can IT leaders create velocity and agility in this reality? In this executive panel, our session moderator, will lead a discussion with other IT leaders on how they’re employing modern practices, data and tools to embrace complexity and move faster without attempting impractical, failure-prone changes to the way they operate. You’ll learn proven practices for moving faster, just when your business needs it the most.

Platform Engineering: A Strategy for Productivity, Compliance & Security | DevOps & Data Impact 2024

Platform engineering has emerged as an essential discipline for empowering application development and DevOps teams to deliver better software faster, while seamlessly addressing security and compliance requirements. In this keynote, Sanjeev Sharma, SVP of Platform Engineering for Dell Technologies, will share how his business delivers a comprehensive, automated platform for its teams. He’ll give an update on their progress and achievements, while addressing the most challenging roadblocks they’ve faced along the way.

Honing a DevOps Edge | Perforce's Vision and Roadmap 2025

Never before have the promises and perils of enterprise innovation been so great. An entire class of innovation built on AI creates enormous potential for delighting customers, igniting productivity and launching new offerings. But these opportunities are coupled with evolving risks, while mature enterprises must manage a broad portfolio of systems and applications. How will your DevOps teams quickly capitalize on the promises while mitigating new risks and tending to a more complex technology landscape?

Are Self-Driving Cars Safe?

Are self-driving cars safe? The software in modern cars contains more than 100 million lines of code that enable many different features — cruise control, speed assistance, and parking cameras. And, the code within these embedded systems only gets more complex. This trend will continue as cars of the future become more connected. Cars are increasingly dependent on technology. And they will progressively become more autonomous — and ultimately self-driving.

Your Guide to SAP Testing Automation & How to Get Started

For enterprises relying on SAP systems, ensuring smooth operation through updates, integrations, and daily operations is crucial. Manual testing of these complex systems increases time to market and the likelihood of human error. The solution? SAP testing automation, which enables faster, more reliable testing, ensuring your business-critical processes run smoothly without bottlenecks.

Perforce's Approach to Open-Source Communities

Perforce has been contributing and working in open source for decades now. We understand that open source is the linchpin for technology that supports businesses today. Our approach to open source is not unique to the industry at large or a company of our size (we have around 1,700 employees and 800 are on my team), but questions of our approach to open source became much more visible when we acquired Puppet – which has a really dedicated open-source community and a long history with open source.

5 Ways Perforce Helps with DORA Regulation Compliance

In January 2025, the European Union (EU) will begin enforcing a new regulation called the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). The DORA regulation mandates sweeping cyber resilience requirements for financial institutions and third-party information and communication technology (ICT) providers. In this blog post, we examine how two core Perforce offerings help financial institutions and their supporting ecosystem of service providers comply with the requirements laid out in the DORA regulation.

Using GitLab With Helix QAC

There are many ways to integrate Helix QAC static analysis within a continuous integration system like GitLab. Helix QAC's full CI/CD integration accelerates the development pipeline and provides maximum flexibility across the entire organization. In this video, we demonstrate the GitLab and Helix QAC integration with a merge request example. Watch to see how easy it is to compare branches, find and fix issues, and automate CI analysis during key phases of development.