Report: The best coding bootcamps to attend to land a job at the Big Five
Getting a computer science degree is no longer the only path to a software engineering role. Several of tech’s most sought-after companies to work for don’t require a college degree to land a job, and accept coding bootcamp graduates or candidates who have completed some other forms of instruction. A new report from the tech …
SD Times news digest: NVIDIA to acquire DeepMap for autonomous vehicles, Visual Studio Code 1.57, and the FIDO Developer Challenge
NVIDIA announced that it is acquiring DeepMap, a startup that builds HD maps for autonomous vehicles to navigate. DeepMap’s technology will bolster the mapping and localization capabilities of NVIDIA DRIVE after the acquisition is expected to close in third calendar quarter of 2021. “The acquisition is an endorsement of DeepMap’s unique vision, technology and people,” …
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: page-fetch
Page-fetch is a new open-source tool created by the Detectify Security Research team that helps hunt for prototype pollution issues. One of the most common places for prototype pollution — the ability to inject properties into existing JavaScript language construct prototypes — is in processing the query string. Detectify’s solution can already find issues that …
Improve operational efficiency with value calculators
One of the most powerful tools in helping people understand the value of changing the way they build and deploy systems is to quantify the benefit of making the change. While the math of quantification can be intimidating to many, we use calculators as a matter of course for many of the economics-based decisions in …
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Android 12 Beta 2 adds more privacy features
It’s been a few weeks since the first beta of Android 12 was released, and the Android development team is ready with the second beta. Android 12 Beta 2 adds new privacy features and continues to refine the release. The Privacy Dashboard is a new tool that will provide users with more insight into what …
SD Times news digest: Lightbend Akka Serverless, Contrast Scan, and GrapeCity announces table support for SpreadJS
Lightbend has announced the launch of Akka Serverless, a cloud-native development platform-as-a-service that enables the creation of cloud-native apps using any programming language and eliminates the need for databases in deploying business-critical apps. Akka has a simple, API-driven programming model that makes it easy for developers to define the data that they need so that …
The key pillars to a successful shift-left strategy
The shift-left movement is already underway. Organizations can no longer wait to test at the end of the life cycle and hope things are in order before they release into production. Baking quality in from the beginning rather and testing quality later has become a key tenet in today’s software testing initiatives. A recent report …
SD Times news digest: Gremlin’s Chaos Engineering Practitioner Certificate Program, FusionAuth Advanced MFA, and InstallAware X13 for Ethereum
Gremlin’s new Chaos Engineering Practitioner Certificate Program was designed to help software teams get started with chaos engineering. “No matter your title and background, Gremlin makes it easy for anybody interested in reliability to become a Chaos Engineering expert,” Tammy Butow, a principal SRE at Gremlin, wrote in a blog post. “This Gremlin Certificate Program …
Industry Watch: Security first and foremost
The SolarWinds and Colonial Pipeline hacks have brought security to the fore of software development. Once again. And again, our “thoughts and prayers” go out to the customers of those companies, and the companies themselves, harmed by the attacks. I say this because, not unlike the mass shootings that plague America — and please, do …
Are your metrics right for a remote workforce?
So much of what we do at work has to be measured. There is a sense that, if something cannot be measured, does it even really exist? Certainly, if a project or function can not demonstrate how it is being measured in a clear, understandable manner, its ability to secure approval or signoff is dramatically …
SD Times news digest: Grafana 8.0 released, Sentry custom dashboards, and Synopsys acquires Code Dx
Grafana 8.0 introduces new alerts that centralize alerting information Grafana managed alerts and alerts from Prometheus-compatible data sources within one UI and API. Grafana Labs also introduced a new data source: Alertmanager, which is in alpha and includes built-in support for Prometheus Alertmanager. Also, data sources can now send real-time updates to dashboards over a …
Apple’s WWDC 2021: Xcode Cloud, AR updates, and Swift concurrency support
Apple announced a number of newly available APIs for developers, updates to the programming language Swift, App Store enhancements and new software features at its online 2021 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2021) today. “We’re thrilled to provide our developer community with powerful new tools and technologies to help create even more compelling and higher-quality apps, …
Understanding the new “open” licenses
The Commons Clause was one of the first licenses that came out to try to combat cloud providers. It made headlines and caused an uproar in the open-source community when Redis Labs announced it was switching to the license. Under the clause, users do not have the right to sell the software, meaning third parties …
The battle of open-source licenses
Earlier this year, Elastic reignited the open-source licensing debate when it announced it would be changing its license model to better protect its open-source code. Over the last couple of years, a number of companies — including Redis Labs, MongoDB, Cockroach Labs, and Confluent — have been switching their open-source licenses to avoid what they …
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Protect All Your Applications: A Low Code Approach
June 30, 2021, 1PM ET | 10AM PT A recent study conducted by Aite group found that 97% of financial apps have no protections against decompiling and viewing source code. In fact, of the 4+ million apps in Google’s Play Store and Apple’s App Store, the majority are not sufficiently protected to stop even the …
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It’s Data First When Modernizing Applications
June 24, 2021, 1PM ET | 10AM PT While modernization is essential to staying competitive in today’s IT landscape, businesses are modernizing at a much faster pace than the software needed to keep up with them. 74% of organizations fail to complete legacy system modernization. Whether attempting a full migration to microservices or trying to …
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Move Fast & DON’T Break Things: Modernize Your SDLC without Compromising Customer Trust
June 16, 2021, 1PM ET | 10AM PT Companies around the world and across a myriad of industries are feeling the pressures of evolving from legacy, on-prem infrastructure to hybrid and cloud-native architectures. Meanwhile, both B2B and B2C buyers today demand faster delivery—whether of business or consumer-facing services. And with COVID-19 forcing a global shift …
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How to improve testing and save valuable developer time
AVAILABLE NOW Shifting testing left is an effective technique to ensure application quality doesn’t suffer as the page of software delivery quickens. But how do you test smaller chunks of work rapidly and earlier in the SDLC without stressing your internal teams? And why use your highly skilled developers and testers to validate the functionality …
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A single mobile codebase enables innovation, lessens maintenance
AVAILABLE NOW Are you building apps for multiple devices and now stuck with managing multiple source codes? We’ll show you how HCL Volt MX enables you to manage a single code base so you can build once and deploy everywhere — from native mobile apps and PWAs to wearables and kiosks. Join us for this …
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The Architect’s Guide to Progressive Web Apps (PWAs)
This guidebook provides Architects and App Dev leaders with essential insights on which projects are right for PWAs, and how to build a production-ready PWA today. What are PWAs and why do they matter? How PWAs fit into your app strategy How to build and ship PWAs Benefits of using PWAs …
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- Melissa Cites the Single Customer View as Vital to Customer-Centric Marketing
- ConnectALL Appoints Eric Robertson as Senior Advisor to the Office of COO and President
- Planview Names Razat Gaurav as Chief Executive Officer
- Melissa fuels smarter direct mail strategies that recognize the shift to work-from-home
- SmartBear expands support of codeless, automated testing for mobile and ERP applications
- Melissa Named Leader/High Performer in Multiple Spring 2021 G2 Grid Reports
- Melissa to showcase Unison Data Quality Management Platform
- Melissa 2021 catalog advocates better address management, ID verification, and data enrichment
- CData Software acquires DBAmp, expands market-leading salesforce data connectivity
- Founded by the DockerSlim creator, Slim.ai launches to help developers deliver containerized applications faster with $6.6 million in seed funding
- Melissa address accuracy tools help organizations meet 2020 challenges and ease recovery in the new year
- SmartBear strengthens leadership team with new EVP/GM of products and technology
