September 11, 2024 at 01:11PM StackGen, formerly appCD, closed a $12.3M seed round led by Thomvest Ventures with existing investors, and appointed Arshad Sayyad as Chief Business Officer. Its funding will accelerate product development and enhance its go-to-market strategy. StackGen is revolutionizing infrastructure from code and providing seamless, full-stack solutions to meet growing demand from … Read more
September 10, 2024 at 10:06AM Platform engineering’s success hinges on prioritizing operational and application security. Embracing a “security-first” approach minimizes toil, enhances efficiency, and limits the impact of potential attacks. Key strategies include implementing least privilege access, secure defaults in configuration management, integrating security into CI/CD pipelines, and adopting GitOps for enhanced version control and … Read more
October 18, 2023 at 01:07AM The top four emerging trends in software engineering, as highlighted in Gartner’s Application Innovation and Business Solutions Summit, are platform engineering, low-code technologies, super apps, and generative AI coding assistance. Platform engineering aims to improve developer productivity and efficiency by providing self-service capabilities through an internal developer platform. Low-code technologies … Read more