As practice lead for software engineering at Standard Bank Group, I have always seen my role as being a champion for engineering improvement, promoting collaboration and continuous learning among the engineering community in my organisation, writes Natasha Anderson....

Two things define development in business - speed to market and demand for quality. Unfortunately, these two targets rarely move in tandem, and rarely agree with one another. For the developers, speed is only the essence when it is added to the solutions they are...

Machine learning operations (MLOps), the standardisation and streamlining of machine learning lifecycle management, has become one of the most important development areas within business. By Fred Senekal, head of R&D at Learning Machines Machine learning (ML) and...

Growing at an impressive compound annual rate of 19,1% per year, the DevOps tools market is predicted to be worth almost $15-billion by 2026. By Nuno Martins, senior channel solutions architect at Red Hat This momentum can be largely ascribed to the drive for digital...

At a time when economic pressures are forcing businesses to sweat their IT assets and do more with less, container technology and Kubernetes can be instrumental. By Modeen Malick, senior systems engineer at Commvault South Africa Achieving what is needed can be done...

The changing global landscape has caused many businesses to seek out new ways of remote working. ERP automation can help companies navigate business disruption caused by Covid-19, but can an effective ERP solution be delivered off-site? In the new world of work...

New application architectures such as Kubernetes and microservices have numerous benefits and can add significant value to a business. By Modeen Malick, principle systems engineer at Commvault While enterprise adoption is currently low, it is expected to increase...

According to McKinsey & Company, the pandemic transformed business, forever. The speed at which organisations adopted digital and transformed technology accelerated by as much as seven years. Digital whiplash as companies leapt towards technologies that would...

Software testing, a vital step in the software development lifecycle, can be a complex process. As applications become more intricate in terms of functionality, and with a large number of platforms and browsers that software must be made compatible with, the...

The agile approach was initially applied to new software development but as time has moved on and, especially in the current environment, businesses are finding that this approach can be applied to a variety of scenarios. Anne-Marie Pretorius from Bizmod Consulting...