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Business owners are losing patience on software projects. They see and feel that competitors are advancing their business. They are pushing on their IT departments harder, pressing for more and faster delivery of software that will keep their companies in the digital race. They like what IT is delivering, but the challenge for IT managers is to keep up with the speed of software delivery with as few bugs as possible.

The latest survey of 310 IT executives, conducted by Forrester Consulting in partnership with Eggplant, finds that the majority of enterprise leaders, namely 70%, name the functional outcomes and software added value created by the software delivered as "good" or "excellent," . However, close to half feel things aren't just being delivered fast enough for their business. 46% of the respondents named the speed of testing as "average", "fair", or "poor", and 41% say the same about the speed of their overall custom application development. More than a third of all executives (36%) also rated the quality of code in development for testing as "average" or even worse.

But overall, C-suite executives are happy with the applications and solutions that come out of the pipeline. However, they are worried for the faster delivery of these apps.

Analysts making quick assumptions on diverse reactions to Apple's WWDC 2019 key points, but in general they agree that the California Software and hardware company puts a focus on unique software upgrades and helping out Apple app developers.

Apple's emphasis was on "further extending its competitive differentiation over other consumer device OEMs with an emphasis on its software leadership," claimed JPMorgan's expert Samik Chatterjee. The software analyst highlighted privacy features in iOS 13 such as "Sign in With Apple," feature and the creation of brand new operating system for iPad, called iPadOS, shifting away from giving iPads "second hand features of the iPhone.". The latter news is a shocking one for developers.

How much progress can be accomplished with blockchain technology? Software development professionals, like IQ Direct, overall, are optimistic about blockchain technologies. A majority of them around 55%, say there are potential applications for blockchain beyond its cryptocurrency roots.

55% is not taken from nowhere, but it is the number from the latest Stack Overflow survey, covering 88,883 developers internationally-- one of the largest, if not the largest developer community in the world. When asked what they primarily believe about blockchain technology, 29% agreed that blockchain technology could be "useful across many domains and could change many aspects of our lives."  Another 26% stated it as "useful for immutable record keeping outside of currency." Only 17% saw it as a passing fad, and 16% say it is "an irresponsible use of resources." 

WebAssembly was first released in 2017. Technically speaking it is a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine. WebAssembly software provides a portable C++ compile target (called Wasm, for short) that has several advantages over it’s predecessor, asm.js:

• High-level bytecode format, which eliminates the need to parse script text and precompile it for optimization. The bytecode can be run via directly translating to native instructions. Startup times of Wasm apps to load and begin execution of the code are orders of magnitude faster compared to asm.js.
• The bytecode format is a more compact way to deliver code, hence less network download.
• Wasm implements its own instruction set and is not constrained by the JavaScript language.