Ram Chakravarti, CTO, BMC Software: On breaking the DevOps plateau and using automation to improve security

The majority of organisations are stuck in a "plateau" in their DevOps evolution and are struggling to advance into the higher stages of adoption.

BMC Software knows a thing or two about the subject and recently sponsored Puppet's 2021 State of DevOps report.

Developer spoke with Ram Chakravarti, CTO of BMC Software, to gain some insights into how to break the DevOps plateau and how automation can be used to bolster security.

Developer: Puppet’s 2021...

16 August 2021 | AI

IBM brings Python data science platform Anaconda to Linux

IBM is bringing the Python data science platform Anaconda to the company’s LinuxONE and IBM Z customers.

Anaconda is the world's most popular Python distribution platform and boasts over 25 million users worldwide. Today’s announcement is the latest part of IBM’s effort to bring popular data science frameworks and libraries to its enterprise platforms.

Barry Baker, VP of Product Management for IBM Z & LinuxONE, wrote in a blog post:

“Data scientists...

18 May 2021 | AI

Perforce acquires AI-based mobile testing experts 21 Labs

Enterprise development solutions provider Perforce has acquired the AI-based mobile testing experts at 21 Labs.

The acquisition will bolster Perforce’s existing portfolio of solutions for the enterprise development lifecycle with powerful testing capabilities.

21 Labs’ self-learning, AI-based mobile automation testing tool helps businesses to deploy quality iOS and Android apps faster.

Shani Shoham, CEO and Founder of 21 Labs, said:

“Together,...

17 May 2021 | AI

Play Store’s AI security blocks almost one million policy-violating apps

Google’s AI-powered Play Store security has blocked almost one million policy-violating apps from reaching users.

In a blog post, Google detailed what it’s been doing to protect the billions of Android users and millions of developers creating apps for the world’s largest mobile platform.

2020 was a year when many of us made sacrifices to our freedoms to protect not just ourselves, but those around us. Unfortunately, criminals sought to take advantage of more...

22 April 2021 | AI

Five ways to use AI in app development to improve your customer service experience

As we move towards a digital world, the relationship between businesses and customers has been changing over the last few years. With customers' expectations higher than ever, companies need to find new ways to interact with them and improve their processes and services' efficiency and quality. It’s in this context that several organizations are starting to board the AI train to enhance their customer service with smarter experiences and process automation.

Artificial...

23 March 2021 | AI

GameRefinery’s AI auto-tags features and visuals for iOS developers

GameRefinery has boosted its game analytics platform with a new AI which automatically generates tags highlighting features and visuals.

The new system can auto-generate up to 100 tags per game and is currently being used for over 100,000 iOS games in Western markets including the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

GameRefinery claims its new AI can automatically identify 51 features and 45 visual styles. This enables it to quickly tag games that its human...

30 October 2020 | AI

Nvidia celebrates reaching two million registered developers

Nvidia is celebrating reaching the two million registered developers milestone by highlighting some of their community's achievements.

GPUs from Nvidia are powering everything from your home gaming rig to self-driving cars. Most recently, they’ve even been harnessed in the global fight against COVID-19.

And Nvidia is truly a global company. The California-based firm highlighted some of the most active GPU developers per region:

In North America, the most active...

20 August 2020 | AI

Amazon’s AI-powered code reviewer CodeGuru is now available

An artificial intelligence-powered code reviewer from Amazon Web Services (AWS) called CodeGuru has reached general availability.

CodeGuru is a set of tools which use machine learning for reviewing code and suggesting potential optimisations to improve performance.

The set consists of two components, Reviewer and Profiler, and first launched into preview last December.

AWS trained Reviewer using code from over 10,000 open source projects in addition to the...

30 June 2020 | AI

New developer tools boost Google Assistant’s capabilities

Google has launched new tools for developers which are designed to boost Assistant's capabilities when responding to user requests.

The virtual assistant is regularly found to handle general queries better than its closest competitors, but too often you can think it would just be quicker to do a task yourself. We're still far off from the sci-fi visions of AI assistants like HAL and JARVIS.

Google Assistant, and its rivals, have made large strides in improving areas such...

18 June 2020 | AI

Codota secures $12m series A funding for AI which automates code suggestions

Israel-based startup Codota has raised $12 million (£9.6m) in a series A funding round to build on its AI-flavoured product which aims to improve developer productivity.

The company's platform aims to be the dev equivalent of Gmail's Smart Compose, providing suggestions to coders based on an analysis of 'millions' of code repositories. In the company's own words, it 'automates all predictable parts of the development cycle, such as looking up syntax and applying the best...

27 April 2020 | AI