Kony launches conversational AI development kit
Kony wants to help developers create personalized user experiences with the release of its Conversational AI DevKit. The new solution provides drag-and-drop conversational capabilities developers can integrate into their applications. RELATED CONTENT: Tips for building AI into mobile apps According to the company, AI-based conversational interfaces are the next wave of user interactions. Conversational AI …
Ruby on Rails version 6.0 released
The latest version of Ruby on Rails, the web application framework for creating database back-end web solutions, is now available. Version 6.0 has been 2 1/2 years in the making with 7,275 commits. “Dealing with incoming email, composing rich-text content, connecting to multiple databases, parallelizing test runs, integrating JavaScript with love, and rewriting the code …
SD Times news digest: Microsoft acquires jClarity, Julia 1.2 released, and Eggplant’s automated testing capability
Microsoft announced that it is acquiring jClarity to support their continued contributions to open source while driving increased performance for Java workloads on Azure. jClarity is a leading contributor for AdoptOpenJDK, an open-source OpenJDK binaries project. “The jClarity team are JVM experts who have helped their customers optimize their Java applications while also providing leadership …
CROKAGE helps developers find Stack Overflow answers
Many developers turn to Stack Overflow to ask questions, share programming knowledge and learn from others, but the amount of information available on the online community can be overwhelming. To tackle this, a group of researchers have developed the Crowd Knowledge Answer Generator (CROKAGE), a new solution designed to help developers easily find relevant information …
Latest News
SD Times news digest: Julia programming language survey, Google Live Transcribe, and GitHub’s token scanning solution
The developers of the Julia programming language conducted its first user and developer survey to find out what users like and dislike about the language. According to the survey, speed and performance were ranked as the most popular technical features in Julia. The survey also showed that most users and developers use Julia for research …
The rise of low-code tooling for mobile app development
Low-code development is gaining acceptance in organizations looking to empower non-developers to create applications, hoping to eliminate backlogs and overcome the shortage of programmers they face. But another huge benefit of these frameworks and platforms is in the area of mobile development. These modern solutions have evolved from the RAD tools of days gone by …
SuperGLUE benchmark challenges natural language processing tasks
Artificial intelligence researchers want to advance natural language processing with the release of SuperGLUE. SuperGLUE builds off of the previous General Language Understanding Evaluation (GLUE) benchmark, but aims to provide more difficult language understanding tasks and a new public leaderboard. SuperGLUE was developed by AI researchers from Facebook AI, Google DeepMind, New York University and …
PyTorch 1.2 released with new and improved TorchScript environment
The open-source machine learning framework PyTorch is tackling production usage in its latest release. PyTorch 1.2 features an update to the TorchScript environment. TorchScript enables users to create serializable models from PyTorch code and can be saved from a Python process. The new improvements are designed to make it easier to ship production models, expand …
Learn to harness chaos to build resilient systems
Systems in production fail. Nodes go down, networks become inaccessible. Chaos engineering is the practice of intentionally failing production infrastructure to see how resilient the system is. At this year’s ChaosConf, attendees will learn the how-to and benefits of failing parts of their infrastructure to see how their systems hold up, and to see where …
SD Times news digest: React DevTools, Square goes beyond payments, and Stackery now on AWS Marketplace
React announced a new release of React Developer Tools that are now available in Chrome, Firefox and Chromium Edge. Features include performance gains and improved navigation as well as support for React Hooks. In addition, the new DevTools can filter components from the tree to make it easier to navigate deeply nested hierarchies. Host nodes …
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Twilio CLI
In an effort to help its developers be more productive, Twilio has announced the beta version of Twilio CLI. It is an open-source command line interface that enables developers to access Twilio through their command prompt. “It’s hard to beat the flexibility and power that a CLI provides at development time. Until now, there was …
Report: Majority of websites are inaccessible to blind users
Despite efforts to make the web more accessible for people with disabilities, cognitive impairments and vision/hearing difficulties, there is still a digital divide. A new report from accessibility software company Deque Systems and conducted by Nucleus Research found that Internet websites in certain industries are largely inaccessible to people who have trouble with vision. RELATED …
The feature launch in 5 key phases: A DevOps cheat sheet
The process of launching a new feature has changed a lot over the last decade. Ten years ago, a feature launch was commonly tied to code release. This meant that when the release branch was merged into master and pushed to production, new features riding on that branch would be launched to customers. RELATED CONTENT: …
SD Times news digest: Instana’s pipeline feedback integration, Pivotal in discussions with VMware on business combination, and WebKit tracking prevention policy
Instana, provider of automated Application Performance Management (APM), announced the release of Instana Pipeline Feedback designed to enable users to track and analyze applications. “Instana Pipeline Feedback tracks and isolates application release performance, notifying developers and DevOps of issues within seconds,” said Pete Abrams, co-founder and COO of Instana. The APM solution discovers application service …
data
Learning Center
-
White Papers
Should you modernize your data warehouse? Yes, and here’s how!
Data warehouses were never designed to handle the pressures of modern data demands. They slow down data acquisition and ingestion efforts and struggle to keep pace with your data demands. Growing varieties, volumes, and velocities of data can strain your warehouse and existing BI processes, unearthing platform limitations that are not easily overcome and are …
-
White Papers
A complementary approach to delivering greater value through software
The emergence of Value Stream Management (VSM) as a concept applicable to IT signals a change for traditional enterprises in a tech-driven world. Finally, organizations have a digital practice available that is focused on the optimization of business value. By combining the people, processes, and technologies that map, optimize, visualize and control how value flows …
-
White Papers
Rediscover your passion for building great products
Instead of reveling in their passion for building great products, developers find themselves too often wasting countless hours on non-value adding work. Countless meetings, logging in and out of tools to copy/paste information, rummaging through emails and chat threads, filling in time sheets — everything but coding. Meanwhile the business and their management are on …
-
10 Key Capabilities for Success with Low Code
The bare minimum requirements of low-code solutions are that they enable fast app delivery and are easy to use. With the excitement of being able to quickly and easily build and deliver an application, many companies don’t look beyond those capabilities to see what limits they may run into as they make a decision to adopt a new application …
-
White Papers
The API Buyer’s Guide
In this guide, we’ll outline the key questions technical leaders should ask when considering an API solution and provide best practices for evaluating options, including: The Benefits of API Solutions The Cost of Building an Integration In-House Technical Criteria for Evaluating APIs How to Structure a POC (Proof of Concept) How to Successfully Implement an …
-
White Papers
The Developer’s Guide to IMAP
Send and sync mail into your application with IMAP. IMAP isn’t as simple as login, fetch, log out – underneath the surface, IMAP contains nuances that can cause any developer massive headaches. Download this guide to learn: IMAP: the protocols, commands, and scopes IMAP gotchas: volatile UIDs, deleting messages, receiving notifications A better way to …
SD Times Newswire
- Introducing Web Charts for the Most Demanding JavaScript Developers
- Orasi Software and Saltworks Security enter into partnership with open source security leader Sonatype
- DevOps Institute named continuous learning track sponsor of DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019
- Datical adds support for AWS database platforms, enabling enterprise cloud application development and migration
- Acquia Lightning speeds Drupal development with new capabilities
- Kong Introduces Go-to-Market (GTM) Partner Program as Enterprise Adoption of APIs, Microservices and Hybrid Architectures Accelerates
- InterSystems IRIS data platform 2019.1 further accelerates digital transformation initiatives
- Trifacta expands data preparation focus to modernize data quality
- MapR launches an AI accelerator program for startups
- LaunchDarkly closes $44 million in series C funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners
- Innovation Lab by Exadel launches as a platform for guiding, experimenting and testing cutting-edge technologies
- ThunderCore raises $50 million in funding
