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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

For years, the Unity Engine has earned goodwill from developers large and small for its royalty-free licensing structure, which meant developers incurred no extra costs based on how well a game sold.