Day to day, developers struggle with a frustrating problem: developer toil. In a 2017 book on site reliability engineering published online, Google defined “toil” as “the kind of work tied to running ...

Hans Dockter is the founder and CEO of Gradle Inc. and the world's foremost authority on the practice of Developer Productivity Engineering. Developer productivity engineering (DPE) is an emerging ...

What is a software developer? A developer – also known as a programmer, coder or software engineer – is an IT professional who uses programming languages to create computer software. What do software ...

Ever since Ada Lovelace, a polymath often considered the first computer programmer, proposed in 1843 using holes punched into cards to solve mathematical equations on a never-built mechanical computer ...

The updated developer agreement also gives Apple the right to collect unpaid amounts from any “affiliates, parents, or ...

Software developers are some of the most highly sought-after IT professionals, and many companies consistently struggle to find the coders they need. Small businesses are using technology to outpace ...

The hype around automation and AI-driven workflows can obscure a fundamental truth: developers still need human interaction.

The growing complexity of modern software systems is slowly killing software developers. How can you regain control, without losing out on the best these technologies have to offer? “Complexity kills, ...

Web development is among the top IT jobs and a frequent entry-level role for developers who are starting out. Here's how one web developer parlayed her programming career into a tech consultancy. With ...

When I spoke to Roblox in 2020, the company was in the midst of rebuilding its entire underlying infrastructure. It had been running into issues with downtime due to insufficient resources to meet ...