Predictability the new Nirvana in software development
A growing skills shortage in the local software development industry is forcing companies to find a lower risk approach to new development projects. Both the time and materials as well as the fixed costs methods of contracting leave businesses exposed to unacceptable...
SA birding app features at DevConf 2023
Brothers Ebbie and Stephan Swart will be presenting a talk at this week's DevConf 2023 conference in Pretoria on their four-year development journey with Firefinch, South Africa's top birding app, according to The Birding Life. Ebbie, a design lead at global software...
DevOps approach can accelerate MVP development
DevOps has a key role to play in the acceleration of the minimum viable product (MVP) development process, as it can significantly impact the scalability and maintainability of the product in the long term. By Tim de Lange, technical lead, and Pragasen Naicker, chief...
Deaf students graduate from Belgium Campus
In what is thought to be a South African first, six deaf IT students are graduating this Friday (12 May) from Belgium Campus iTversity NPC, each with a three-year Bachelor of Information Technology (BIT) degree. "We collaborate with the industry to provide these...
Tips for developing successful application security programmes
CA Southern Africa has revealed details of the 2023 Veracode State of Software Security report which highlights factors that introduce flaws in application development and how to avoid them. “When it comes to application security programmes, what separates the middle...
API standardisation will help leapfrog innovation across all sectors
The growth of application programming interfaces (APIs) continues unabated. However, as new regulations like PSD3 gather momentum, the call for API standardisation could be the next catalyst for an innovation leapfrog. And South African businesses who place designing...
Will AI replace software developers?
Since its launch in November last year, the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT has had a massive impact in just a few short months. Already, some schools have banned it as students quickly employed the bot to take shortcuts in their schoolwork, while debates rage...
Hard core or hard code? Traits of a successful software developer
What makes a successful software developer? Is it the number of degrees or certifications that they have, or the number of years of experience they have accumulated? By Craig Williams, technical director at Webtonic These certainly can be important, however, there are...
Fujitsu launches new platform to support Web3 developers
Fujitsu has announced the launch of its "Fujitsu Web3 Acceleration Platform," offering a developmental environment as well as various service APIs based on blockchain and high-performance computing technologies. Fujitsu envisions the platform as a future community for...
Software is our most promising business opportunity
As digital transformation continues across South Africa, the focus is on how software and IT-related services can play a role in transforming enterprises and entire industries. By Brendan Cuthberson, head of private sector sales: South Africa at Cisco The country...
SA has room for growth in innovation
In a 2019 Forbes article, Peter Bender-Samuel observed that software may have been eating the world, but services today are now consuming software like prey. By Richard Firth, CEO of MIP Holdings While it's true that services have become key to business operations,...
The importance of getting MaaD on the road to AIOps
The term might only have been coined as recently as 2017, but AIOps is already hailed as the next big thing. AIOps uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to augment, accelerate, and automate certain IT operations. "When digital transformation outstrips IT...