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Progress updates Chef EAS and Chef Infra Client

The new version of Chef Enterprise Automation Stack (EAS) aims to bring together elements of the Chef ecosystem into a more integrated approach to automation.

Chef EAS helps DevSecOps teams implement complex systems, provides visibility across heterogeneous infrastructure and applications, and unifies the experience for developers, operators, and administrators, according to the company.

Progress announces updates to Chef Enterprise Automation Stack and new Chef Infra Client 17

Progress Software recently announced enhancements to its Chef Enterprise Automation Stack and the new release of Chef Infra Client 17, as well as a new recognition program for Chef Community contributors that will debut during its April 28 Infra 17 launch event.

DXP In the New Hybrid Workplace

The new trends for digital work and life set in place during 2020 look to be here to stay. Productivity increases and cost savings have prompted employers to rethink the workplace, while most workers appreciate the flexibility that remote work provides

Progress Releases Chef Enterprise Automation Stack and Chef Infra Client 17

Progress announced the availability of enhancements to the Chef Enterprise Automation Stack and the new release of Chef Infra Client 17.

Progress also announced a new recognition program for Chef Community contributors.

Progress Unveils First Update to Chef Automation Portfolio

Progress today announced it has enhanced its Chef Enterprise Automation Stack (EAS) and released a new version of Chef Infra Client that promises to make the programming language on which EAS relies more accessible.

Sudhir Reddy, vice president of engineering for Progress, said the latest versions of both offerings are the first updates to the Chef portfolio since Progress acquired the company last fall.

App Testing Must Evolve Within the DevOps Pipeline

As the practice of DevOps evolves, so do the supporting tasks; hopefully in such a way that they introduce increased efficiency and automation to accelerate development and deployment pipelines. However, one specific process still remains a speed bump on the road to DevOps acceleration: the process—or, more specifically, the chore—of testing.

Marrying content, commerce and experience mapping

The retail hero out of COVID was by a long shot the ecommerce players, or those that quickly shifted to online.

According to the World Health Organisation, Australian ecommerce grew more than 80 per cent year on year in the 8 weeks after the COVID-19 pandemic. More recently, the Australian Bureau of Statistics flagged that online sales last December surged 55 per cent year on year with more than 5.6 million Australian households having shopped online during the month.

Progress Releases Latest DXP

Progress has announced the latest release of the Progress Sitefinity Digital Experience Platform (DXP), Sitefinity 13.3. New to this update is Progress' long-term support for Sitefinity, which gives customers four years or more of extended version support. Company officials said the updated software also provides streamlined developer tooling and advanced analytics, personalization and optimization.

Progress Launches Sitefinity 13.3

Progress, a provider of products to develop, deploy, and manage business applications, today launched the latest release of the Progress Sitefinity Digital Experience Platform (DXP), Sitefinity 13.3.

The new release provides ease-of-use, streamlined developer tooling, advanced analytics, personalization, and optimization.

How Technology Companies Are Converting Challenges Into Opportunities During the Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic presented us with both unique challenges and opportunities as we needed to rethink how we operate as well as how our customers would be impacted. As we started to adjust to remote operations and conduct business online, we have come to realize that the changes we are witnessing are really an acceleration of the trends in society and technology. Both businesses and employees are more inclined to plan the future workspace to be a hybrid model that supports increased work from home. This is reflected in a recent CRN report which found that 74 per cent of Indians would prefer to continue working from home after the pandemic. The pandemic has indeed transformed our lives, affected every industry, and forced businesses to redesign their products and services to remain competitive.

ASP.NET Core Starts Path to Hot Reload, AoT Compilation, Blazor Desktop, More

The first preview of .NET 6 arrived with grand plans for ASP.NET Core -- the web-dev component -- including much-requested features like hot reload, ahead-of-time (AoT) compilation and the beginnings of Blazor hybrid desktop projects.

CMS key to good customer experience: Progress exec

"Everyone [in Australia] has some sort of a web site," he observes, but today's conditions mean they need to strengthen their digital presence, and not everyone has a clear idea of how to do that.

The current environment also means that time to market is particularly important, so organisations must work more efficiently than is possible with traditional methods.

So the question becomes 'how can marketing teams be empowered to do more for themselves?', and they are increasingly talking to Progress to answer that.

Use Telerik to Take Control of the User Experience on Your Next App or Site-Building Project

Business leaders commonly elevate their developers to superhero status, expecting them to continually achieve more in less time. But even the most powerful warriors need a little outside help to conquer difficult projects. After all, where would Wonder Woman be without her lasso, or Aquaman without his trident?

Five Ways to Reimagine IT Talent Post-COVID

As we move into 2021 with cautious optimism, organizations are learning to live with the new constant that is change. For some, this pandemic exposed the inadequacies of their current structure and controls, for others, it was how the focus had shifted from efficiency to resiliency, for still others, there's been an epiphany on how behavioral changes that used to take weeks and months could be done in days.

How chatbots are making us rethink customer experience in a Covid world

The ubiquitous availability of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) have boosted the popularity of virtual assistant chatbots among consumers. With the COVID-19 pandemic, chatbots have received even more attention from organizations looking to engage their customers - and now even employees - online and foster better digital experiences.

Settling into the New, Ever-Changing Way of Working

What will the world of work look like after this pandemic ends? That is the big question. While none of us knows for sure, what we do know is it won’t be the same as it was before. This pandemic has given us the perfect opportunity to challenge the ordinary and re-envision work in a completely different way.

4Ds of Software Development: 2021 Predictions By Progress Software

Yogesh Gupta, CEO of Progress Software shares his predictions for 2021

Sudhir Reddy: Don't Be Afraid to Slash and Burn

Robby speaks with Sudhir Reddy, VP of Engineering at Chef / Progress. They discuss what Sudhir calls "legacy debt", some challenges of managing open source projects with over 500 Github repositories, and how Chef built cohesive governance and EOL programs for open source contributions. Sudhir also shares advice for developers who are looking for a way to begin introducing automated tests in environments where that's not yet considered a valuable practice by the team.

SCP vs. SFTP: Which Is Better for Secure File Sharing?

The more distributed nature of work means that more files are getting transferred than ever. While the cloud is a popular avenue for this, some organizations have additional security concerns, and with a 40 percent increase in ransomware attacks this year, businesses want to make sure their files are protected.

Quiet Please! Cloud-Native Development in Progress

The adoption of agile development practices and cloud-native architectures are changing the way organizations build and deliver applications. Applications are no longer written but assembled using a plethora of independent services and components that interact via APIs. The shift to reusable service-based architectures is simplifying development for sure but the downstream impact to supporting teams is not yet fully understood. For most organizations, the deployment of new services is happening so quickly that supporting operations and security teams have not yet had the time to see the long-term impact of these strategies nor develop best practices for managing.