Developers that monetize payments can learn from the Federal Trade Commission's Toast lawsuit. Here's what to audit.

Mike Monocello is the co-founder of DevPro Journal and Managed Services Journal, and a training and content specialist at BlueStar US. Previously, Monocello was a member of the RSPA board of directors ...

Selling to federal contractors? See how a pause in defense certification and a proposed new federal rule affect your product ...

Stolen tokens and unrotated credentials drove a wave of supply chain attacks. Use these steps to protect your pipeline and your customers.

If you’ve ever searched for the highest-paid programming languages, you’ve seen plenty of ranked lists. Most of them skip the most important point: languages don’t earn salaries, people do. The ...

Building an AI agent sounds deceptively simple in 2026. Pick a model, write a few prompts, connect it to your tools. In an afternoon demo, it looks like magic. Then you try to make it work in the real ...

Piracy conjures images of robbery on the high seas. In software, piracy is tampering with or configuring software to remove or bypass licenses. Software piracy and other forms of unlicensed usage are ...

If your customers hold federal contracts, the security bar isn’t dropping. Here’s what the latest rule changes mean for your software.

Payment integrations quietly pull ISV and VAR engineers off the roadmap. See what the payment detour really costs and how to keep your team shipping. The global digital payment market was worth about ...

Cybersecurity Awareness Month brings a wave of reminders about passwords and phishing. Those matter, but if you lead an independent software vendor (ISV), there’s a bigger question to answer this ...

AI can generate code in seconds, but speed does not mean the code is ready to ship. An AI agent can have access to product requirement documents (PRDs), Jira tickets, and design documents, and still ...

BlueStar today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by TD SYNNEX (NYSE: SNX), a leading global technology distributor. The transaction marks a significant milestone ...