OpenAI models power faster, smarter code development

Digital brain illustrating how Factory, an AI startup founded in 2023 with the aim of eliminating traditional software development bottlenecks, is leveraging artificial intelligence reasoning models from OpenAI to streamline and optimise the creation and maintenance of software.

Factory, a startup founded in 2023 with the aim of eliminating traditional software development bottlenecks, is leveraging reasoning models from OpenAI to streamline and optimise the creation and maintenance of software.

The Factory Platform integrates OpenAI’s o1, o3-mini, and GPT-4o models directly into its workflows, creating a development environment that transcends simple code generation. Instead, it focuses on understanding, retrieving, and reasoning through complex...

7 March 2025 | Artificial Intelligence

Best practices for CI/CD migration: The GitHub Enterprise example

Photo of the Octocat mascot illustrating an article on the best practices for developers to assist with their migration to CI/CD platforms with GitHub Enterprise used as an example.

Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) software – meaning solutions that teams use to build, test, and deploy applications – has come a long way over the past decade.

Whereas organisations once cobbled together CI/CD pipelines using disparate open source tools, they now have a plethora of end-to-end, vendor-supported enterprise CI/CD platforms that they can use instead. Because these solutions offer everything teams need to deliver software, they are simpler to...

10 February 2025 | Approaches

Emerging threats in cloud-native application security: Trends to watch

Cloud-native technologies let organisations build and run scalable applications in modern IT environments. Cloud applications typically comprise various components that require robust security measures. Containers, service meshes, microservices, infrastructure, and APIs are elements of this approach to designing and building software. However, organisations should adopt comprehensive security solutions that provide complete visibility into security risks and that can deliver actionable...

13 December 2024 | Cloud

Xcode Cloud is now available to all developers

Apple has announced that Xcode Cloud is now available to all developers.

Xcode Cloud was first announced during WWDC 2021. Over the past year, it’s gradually been rolling out in beta to lucky developers.

A year (and a WWDC) later, Xcode Cloud is leaving beta.

Xcode Cloud is a continuous integration and delivery service that’s built into Xcode. The solution accelerates the development and delivery of apps by bringing together cloud-based tools that help...

8 June 2022 | Continuous Delivery

2022 Java Developer Productivity Report: Teams aren’t realising the promise of microservices

The latest edition of Perforce’s annual Java Developer Productivity Report highlights that teams aren’t realising the full promise of microservices and CI/CD.

Developers are often finding that microservices and CI/CD are decreasing their productivity rather than improving. 

Among CI/CD users, 42 percent of respondents report build completion times of over five minutes. The most common (33%) response was build times exceeding 10 minutes.

The highest...

23 February 2022 | Approaches

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 | Approaches

GitLab: 2020 was a ‘catalyst for DevOps maturation’

GitLab’s fifth annual DevSecOps survey reveals that last year was pivotal for the maturation of DevOps.

The only silver lining from the disaster of a year that was 2020 is that it helped to highlight inefficiencies with legacy processes and technologies. As the world looks to "build back better" from the pandemic, the work of DevOps teams should provide some inspiration.

Eric Johnson, CTO at GitLab, said:

“This year’s Global DevSecOps Survey shows that...

5 May 2021 | Approaches

The necessary evolution to DevSecOps: Building security into the development lifecycle

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Looking back on the early stages of DevOps, one moment of 20/20 clarity is that if people were doing it right from the beginning, there would be no need to change DevOps to DevSecOps. Security should have been part of the approach from the start.

Security should always be fundamental, but in a rush to develop new ideas or to deliver applications faster, it may get overlooked. This is – ironically - precisely what happened with DevOps. Establishing...

15 April 2021 | Approaches

Featured: Developer’s list of innovative companies to watch in 2021

Governments may not have classed developers as “essential workers” during the pandemic, but we know they are.

The companies in our most innovative companies list for 2021 are helping developers to deliver the full potential of their visions quickly which, in turn, is often helping end-users in ways that can’t be understated.

In alphabetical order:

Appery

Appery’s mission is to “accelerate your mobile innovation” and its low-code app...

15 March 2021 | Continuous Delivery

Disruptive AI technology can overcome the trade-off between cost, speed and quality

Anyone who has ever managed a project has probably had to make a decision between delivering at high speed, high quality, or low cost: As the saying goes, you can only pick two. This is usually as true for the delivery of software as it is for anything else, but mounting pressure to digitally transform and continuously deliver updates has made speed a default requirement for most organisations. This leaves a choice between quality and cost, which often comes down to a decision about...

19 December 2019 | Artificial Intelligence