As “software eats the world,” to use Marc Andreessen’s phrase, versioning becomes critical to business success because corporate value is often contained in the software assets created by the company.

Version control is critical for managing changes to source code over time. Tools that manage changes to source code, programs, documents, or other collections of information are known by a variety of ...

Software teams today are pushing updates daily (sometimes hourly), working with bigger contributor pools, and running deployments almost non-stop. In that kind of setup, source code control tools ...

Development projects require a team of developers all working on the same code at the same time. With this level of collaboration comes the risk of something going ...

IT operations historically have adhered to the philosophy that maintaining stability=good, taking risks=bad. But today’s faster-paced business environment demands more responsive change control.

VCSs have moved beyond a storage space for code to perform a lynchpin role in CI/CD. As such, they should support two features. Organizations that write any type of code usually use a source code ...

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Enterprises are putting a lot of time, money, and resources behind their nascent artificial intelligence efforts, banking on the fact that they can automate the way application leverage the massive ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of ...

Branch management is the most difficult part of distributed version control system (DVCS) management. How developers separate the code they write for feature enhancements from hotfixes or public ...