Postman updates its API platform
Postman API announced that it’s redefining the API Management category with the launch of a new version of the platform. The new and improved features include deeper integration with version control systems, all-new private API networks which provides a central directory of all internal APIs in an organization, and simplified API documentation and onboarding. The …
SD Times news digest: Stable Jetpack Wear OS libraries, Domo Sandbox, and new Sentry capabilities
Android recently announced the delivery of the first five stable Jetpack Wear OS libraries. These include: wear, wear-input, wear-ongoing, wear-phone-interactions, and wear-remote-interactions. The wear library allows users to lay out elements in an arch and write curved text in order to support the curvature of round watches. In addition, wear-input identifies and interacts with hardware …
CodeSignal announces new IDE for the hiring process
CodeSignal, a technical recruiting company, announced today new advanced hiring assessment capabilities. The release features the new IDE designed to test candidates’ technical skills with real-world assessments. According to CodeSignal, the new IDE works as a flight simulation of the coding environment. This allows for employers to fully assess a candidate’s skill set while also …
Microsoft consumers can now completely remove passwords from their accounts
Microsoft today announced that users of Outlook, OneDrive, Family Safety, and more can now opt out of using passwords and choose alternative authentication methods, predicting that “the future is passwordless.” This comes after the company announced that passwordless sign-in was generally available for commercial users, bringing the feature to enterprise organizations around the world. Some of the …
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SD Times news digest: Microsoft announces .NET 6 Release Candidate 1, Aerospike 5.7, and Kobiton funding
Microsoft announced the release of .NET 6 Release Candidate 1, the first of two “go live” releases that are supported in production. It can be downloaded for Linux, macOS, and Windows and it focuses on quality improvements aimed to resolve functional or performance issues. .NET 6 Release Candidate 1 has been tested and is supported …
Report: Enterprise Java is having a renaissance
Enterprise Java is currently experiencing a renaissance, ever since the change in name from Java EE to Jakarta EE and the transfer of the project from Oracle to the Eclipse Foundation. This is according to Mike Milinkovich, executive director of The Eclipse Foundation, in response to the results of the foundation’s 2021 Jakarta EE Developer …
Java 17 released with updates to LTS schedule
The latest release of Java is now available. Java 17 is a long-term support (LTS) release, the last of which was Java 11. According to Oracle, over 70 JDK Enhancement Proposals (JEPs) have been added to the language since Java 11. With this LTS release, Oracle is also working to enhance support for customers. It …
SD Times news digest: Confluent announces new data governance solution, Appian announces new version of low code platform, and Builder.ai introduces beta for AI-powered product manager
Confluent announced Stream Governance to address unsolved data privacy and regulatory issues surrounding real-time, event-driven data. Distributed teams will now have quick and easy access to the data that’s critical to developing more real-time applications and business operations all while maintaining security and privacy. “With the sharp rise of real-time data, the need for governance …
SD Times news digest: Android for Cars App Library 1.1, MariaDB announces a technical preview of NoSQL listener capability, and Rezilion funding
Today, Android announced the release of the beta version of Android for Cars App Library version 1.1. Android Auto apps using features like map interactivity, vehicle’s hardware data, multiple-length text, log message, and sign-in templates, can now be utilized in cars in cars with Android Auto 6.7+. With this, Android also completes the transition to …
Synthetic data and digital twins
Synthetic data and digital twins are wildly different things but at the same time complementary in the sense that one simulates data for AI and other simulates the interactions of models for people and AI. Rather than being generated by real-world events or processes synthetic data is information that’s artificially manufactured. It is data created algorithmically, and …
SD Times news digest: Snyk Series F, Visual Studio extensibility updates, and Rust 1.55
Snyk announced that it closed a $530 million Series F investment, which now totals the company’s funding to-date to $8.5 billion. “This new investment, together with the rapid adoption of our platform and growing customer base, validates our developer security vision,” said Peter McKay, CEO of Snyk. “When security starts with the world’s expanding pool …
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: OS-C
This week’s open-source project isn’t a development tool, but rather a community of collaborators working together to build a software platform to “boost capital flows into climate change mitigation and resilience,” called OS-C. OS-C is a Linux Foundation project that hopes to create a model that can be used to enable applications used for climate-integrated …
Broken Access Control is now the highest vulnerability in OWASP Top 10 2021
The latest edition of the OWASP Top 10 showed that all of the highest-priority vulnerabilities since 2017 have shifted and new ones have been introduced. Broken Access Control has dethroned Injection as the top vulnerability, whereas it previously held fifth place. The 34 Common Weakness Enumerations (CWEs) mapped to Broken Access Control had more occurrences …
The IT industry’s impact on climate change
Climate change is an issue that affects all of us, and as time passes on, it becomes more difficult to ignore the problem. Every industry plays some part in contributing to climate change and the technology industry is no exception. On this week’s episode of the SD Times podcast “What the Dev?” SD Times Editor-in-Chief …
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The Cloud Developer – Generation DevOps
LIVE! October 26, 2021 @ 1PM ET | 10AM PT | Requirements on developers have shifted over the last 5 years. Team sizes are shrinking but responsibilities are growing with DevOps and accelerated SDLC. A developer must become fluent in software architecture, testing, deployment, telemetry, and even security. It is less about multi-layer and more …
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UPCOMING VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: VSMcon 2021
DAY 1 – November 3, 2021 – EXPO DAY, DAY 2 – November 4, 2021 – WORKSHOP DAY | This year’s TWO-DAY digital conference examines the benefits of creating and managing value streams in your development organization. As software development, delivery and performance become more complex due to modern architectures, value streams can help organizations unlock the bottlenecks and eliminate process waste to …
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Best Practices to Test for Pixel-Perfect Apps
LIVE October 7, 2021 @ 1PM ET | 10AM PT | Delightful user experiences start with visual perfection. With over half of website traffic coming from mobile, the need for faster and higher-quality apps is paramount. Not only that, but Mobile QA teams have to account for visual consistency across the thousands of devices. Join …
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UPCOMING VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: Low Code/No Code Developer Day
ALL DAY EVENT: OCTOBER 13, 2021 | Organizations requiring a faster digital transformation are turning to low-code development solutions, empowering IT and non-IT personnel to use drag-and-drop tooling to quickly create necessary business applications. At Low Code/No Code Developer Day, you will learn about low-code and no-code tools, where they are appropriate to use, and what …
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The broad responsibilities of the expanding developer domain
AVAILABLE NOW What developers do and how they do it continues to change dramatically. Developers have had to take on additional responsibilities as organizations have cut back or disbanded specialist teams focused on software QA, security and governance. Once primarily originators of code, many developers now assemble software by combining hundreds or thousands of pre-built …
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Enterprise Observability: Behind the Term
AVAILABLE NOW With the increasing complexity of modern cloud-native applications, enterprise observability is critical to delivering high-quality services. In this webinar we will look behind the term to talk about what enterprise observability brings to operations and DevOps teams. Attendees also will learn about vital components of Instana’s Enterprise Observability Platform, and more importantly, how …
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