A survey by Coleman Parkes for Harness has found that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in software development is on the rise, but there are gaps, which implies that more AI and automation could be deployed. The survey results, published in Harness’s State of AI in software engineering 2025 report, show that the majority…
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The government has published guidance for software engineers working in government departments on how they should use artificial intelligence (AI)-based coding assistants. The Government Digital Service (GDS) AI coding assistants for developers in HMG document warns that if a production service is developed, maintained and deployed from a single environment, using AI coding assistants may…
Enterprise software development has seen several revolutions, which began with the big bang waterfall approach of project delivery and progressed to agile methodologies. Then came the “shift-left” mantra, whereby developers were given greater and greater responsibility to deliver their code into a production environment, leading to DevOps. These changes in approach have been needed to…
Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence (AI), starting a career as a novice software developer or retraining to become a software engineer is now far easier, and people with the right skills can often command higher salaries than the national average. Data published by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) shows that the average salary…
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Over the past year, Kate Balingit has been leading the digital health initiative at Mars Pet Nutrition, reporting to the company’s Petcare chief information officer, where she is focused on commercialising and deploying artificial intelligence (AI) through the Mars pet nutrition brands. These include well-known pet foods brands such as Pedigree, Iams, Sheba and Whiskas.…
Travelex is replacing multiple legacy core supply chain systems with an off-the-shelf alternative, as it seeks to complete its transition to the cloud.Meanwhile, as part of its wider transformation, its in-house software development teams work with technologies such as machine learning to develop systems to predict demand and pricing.The supply chain system replacement project, which…
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Europe has started taking steps to fix the immense problems it believes have hampered its competitiveness and left it with an under-developed artificial intelligence (AI) industry that cannot compete on the world stage. Leaders of European Union (EU) nations, having called for urgent measures, set terms for political negotiations to simplify onerous rules governing financiers and…
During a discussion at the recent KubeCon + Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Europe 2025 event in London, panel members discussed one of the big criticisms of modern software development: why is code deployment still fraught with problems? Shifting left, where developers take on more responsibility for putting their code into production appears to have…
So far, there is no regulation anywhere in the world specific to the environmental impact of software – a fact that runs alongside the reality that neither consumers nor investors are towards or away from companies based on the green credentials of their software. Many experts expect Europe to be the first region to enact regulation that enforces green software practices. One…
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In September 2024, Dunelm reported a 4.1% jump in annual sales to £1.71bn for the year to 29 June. During the same month, GlobalData estimated Dunelm had increased its market-leading share of the homeware sector to 11.5%, edging even further ahead of John Lewis, its closest competitor. New initiative after new initiative is a feature…
