Software Engineering News - Spring 2023

The latest information in software engineering, including new product releases, acquisition, and news items centered around performance testing, observability, AIOps, and more.

For a video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/KIGjIm4mSds

HPE to acquire OpsRamp AIOps Platform:

https://devops.com/hpe-to-acquire-opsramp-to-gain-aiops-platform/ 

Smartbear Acquires Aspecto:

https://smartbear.com/news/news-releases/smartbear-acquires-opentelemetry-pioneer-aspecto/ 

Grafana Labs Acquires Pyroscope:

https://devops.com/grafana-labs-acquires-pyroscope-to-add-code-profiling-capability/ 

Honeycomb Secures $50M in Funding:

https://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Honeycomb-Secures-50M-in-Funding-Round-to-Boost-its-Observability-Platform-158037.aspx 

LoadRunner Releases new version:

https://community.microfocus.com/adtd/b/sws-alm/posts/loadrunner-professional-2023-has-now-been-released 

Wordpress 6.2 Gets a Performance Bump:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LroIJoYz-O9CpfJzaiKYYMWJ7GbE5RZoW1rf1R4FqyA/edit#gid=0 

Is there a 4th Pillar to Observability?

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/04/03/2639758/0/en/Rookout-Makes-Snapshots-the-Fourth-Pillar-of-Observability-Capturing-Deep-Code-Level-Insights-for-Developers.html 

New Relic To Integrate with ChatGPT:

https://devops.com/new-relic-bets-on-ai-to-advance-observability/

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