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| Here's a look at today's Dev briefing. - Developers say flexibility is the key driver to continue in their current role.
- Google announced the general availability of Credentials Manager.
- Snowflake unveiled new tools and features at the Snowday conference.
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| 1 | | A recent Stack Overflow survey among developers indicates a rise in the number of developers looking for new opportunities compared to the past two years. Among the 1,000 developers surveyed by Stack Overflow, 79% said they are actively looking for a new job. More: - The survey revealed that new tech talent and late-career developers are actively hunting for a new job compared to early- and mid-career developers.
- Stack Overflow attributed this trend to a fall in entry-level job openings and concerns about stability in the tech industry.
- Flexibility retained the top spot for the third year in a row as the reason developers chose to continue in their current role.
- 70% of mid-career developers said flexibility is the most crucial factor for retaining their job, while 65% of early-career developers and 59% of new tech talent shared the same sentiment.
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| 2 | | Google announced the general availability of Credential Manager from Nov. 1. The Credential Manager, an Android Jetpack API, simplifies the app and website sign-in process for users while enhancing security. More: - The Credential Manager's unified interface supports passkeys, a new passwordless authentication, along with conventional sign-in methods, such as passwords and federated identity.
- The announcement called passkeys the future of online authentication because of its improved security and convenience, and apps like Uber and WhatsApp already support passkeys.
- Credential Manager allows users to select the account they want to sign in with and leverages smart defaults to determine the ideal technology for authentication.
- Additionally, it provides users with the freedom to choose their preferred authentication service, whether it is the pre-installed password manager on their device or any credential provider.
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| 3 | | Snowflake unveiled new product capabilities at its annual Snowday conference this week. The new tools and features aim to help developers change how they build, deliver, distribute, and operate their applications. More: - Snowpark Container Services will soon be available in select AWS regions to offer developers a simplified and secure way to deploy, manage, and scale containerized workloads on Snowflake's infrastructure.
- The Snowflake Native App Framework enables developers to package, distribute, and monetize their applications through the Snowflake Marketplace.
- Hybrid Table, available via private preview, is a new table type that allows Snowflake customers to support transactional workload while reducing the need to operate and synchronize across multiple databases.
- Snowflake also announced new database change management capabilities, a private preview of Git integration with Snowflake, Snowflake CLI, and the general availability of Event Tables.
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| 4 | | According to an SEC filing by network management and visualization provider Splunk, the company is laying off 7% of its workforce. Over 550 employees are estimated to lose their jobs due to global restructuring. More: - In the filing, Splunk president and CEO said employees in the Americas who will be laid off will receive severance packages, healthcare coverage, and job placement assistance.
- He also clarified that the layoff is not related to its acquisition deal with Cisco, which was announced in September.
- Steele wrote in a message to his employees that the overall market has retracted and that the macro environment will continue to stay unpredictable for the foreseeable future.
- In February, the company laid off 325 of its staff.
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| 5 | | New Tools and Updates: - Google announced the experimental pilot of the Android WebView Media Integrity API for embedded media providers. The API ensures media is played in a trusted and secure environment within Android apps to enhance privacy and security.
- Swift introduced a new top-level Packages page that categorizes Swift packages by common types such as server, networking, testing, logging, and areas of interest to make it easier for developers to discover and select packages that cater to their needs.
- JetBrains released Kotlin 1.9.20 with the beta of the K2 compiler for all the targets, stable Kotlin Multiplatform, a new default hierarchy template for setting up multiplatform projects, performance improvements for the garbage collector in Kotlin/Native, and more.
- Remix announced the availability of unstable support for Vite in version 2.2.0. According to Remix, the benefits of using the Remix Vite plugin include near-instant dev server startup, pre-bundled dependencies, reduced memory usage, automatic route-based CSS splitting, and more.
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 | Analyst | | Sudarshan lives in Toronto, Canada, and is an engineering graduate. He is passionate about business, tech, entrepreneurship, and politics. FUN FACT: Sudarshan worked for the election campaign teams of two heads of state in India. When he is not busy with work, he enjoys hiking, playing cricket, and cooking. | | This newsletter was edited by Aaron Crutchfield | |
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