Compare Bower vs NPM to understand the advantages and disadvantages of each package manager and decide which is best for your business’s needs.
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What Is Bower Used For?
Bower was once the most popular front-end package manager to use for web development projects. It took the legwork out of finding, installing, and saving appropriate versions of external software packages. Bower was built at and released by Twitter in 2012. The creators’ goal was to automate some necessary tasks related to dependency management to…
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npm vs Yarn
npm vs Yarn: The JavaScript package manager contest rolls on. Learn about these tools and why the need for Software Composition Analysis is as vital as ever.
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What Is Bower?
What is Bower, and what are the alternatives to this popular but deprecated package manager? Learn the past and future of client-side dependency management.
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Things to Worry About in Software M&A
Mergers between and acquisitions of software companies occur with great frequency in the current tech market. They are a high stakes process, with a lot on the line for all parties involved. Public companies who are conducting software M&A deals must invest their capital wisely to maximize stock value, as the reputation of the company’s…
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The Purpose and Process of Software Due Diligence
Software due diligence is a process completed during a merger or acquisition of a software company that analyzes all aspects of the target company, its operation and its product prior to investment or purchase by another company. It is a key step in building trust between the companies, as it is used to determine how…
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Exploring DevSecOps
Intro to DevSecOps As DevOps has become more mainstream and the benefits become well known. Practitioners have looked at new ways to apply and extend the concepts to expand the benefits of DevOps philosophy to other areas of the business. One such natural extension is DevSecOps. DevSecOps takes the core tenets of DevOps and expands…
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Open Source Licenses Types and Issues (OSS)
Currently, open source software license (OSS) usage not only represents an ever-growing portion of the software market, but is nearly a necessity of doing business and developing modern software. Utilizing OSS software allows companies to leverage the work of large communities and benefit from the collaboration of those communities’ users to create better software with…
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Shifting Security Left
Shifting Security Left – What Does it Mean? Shifting security left is the idea of managing and satisfying security requirements as early as possible in the software development life cycle. Imagine your software lifecycle outlined linearly on a page / whiteboard from left to right; with requirements and design on the very left and deployment…
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