Category: News

Leverage Amazon Q Developer and AWS Chatbot within Slack

October 31, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

The release of Amazon Q Developer and its ability to be integrated into AWS Chatbot allows users who use Microsoft Teams or Slack to stay within their communication platform and interact with a conversational generative artificial intelligence (AI) AWS expert. Amazon Q Developer is a conversational generative…

Using Semantic Versioning to Simplify Release Management

October 30, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Any organization that manages software libraries and applications needs a standardized way to catalog, reference, import, fix bugs and update the versions of those libraries and applications. Semantic Versioning enables developers, testers, and project managers to have a more standardized process for committing code and…

Introducing the new Amazon Q Developer experience in AWS Lambda

October 23, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

AWS Lambda recently announced a new code editor based on Code-OSS. Like the previous version, the new editor includes Amazon Q Developer. Amazon Q Developer is a generative AI-powered assistant for software development that can help you build and debug Lambda functions more quickly. In…

Code security scanning with Amazon Q Developer

October 20, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

A primary objective of software developers is to develop products that uphold the highest standards of data privacy and security, fostering trust and confidence among their users and customers. Developers seek to secure their software by identifying and mitigating security vulnerabilities in their codebase, thereby…

Five ways to optimize code with Amazon Q Developer

October 19, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Practical improvement and optimization of software quality requires expert-level knowledge across various subjects. As such, in this blog we shall look at how Amazon Q Developer can help improve your development team productivity and application stability by enabling automation around code optimization by improving your code’s…

Enhance release control with AWS CodePipeline stage-level conditions

October 17, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

It’s an established practice for development teams to build deployment pipelines, with services such as AWS CodePipeline, to increase the quality of application and infrastructure releases through reliable, repeatable and consistent automation. Automating the deployment process helps build quality into our products by introducing continuous…

Announcing Finch on Linux for Container Development

October 15, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

In 2022 AWS announced Finch, an open source command line developer tool for building, running, and publishing Linux containers on macOS. Within a year in November 2023, Finch successfully reached its 1.0 milestone for general availability (GA). Since then, we’ve expanded support from macOS to…