The end of “your database”
When I started in web development, the architecture of an application always radiated out from the database. Any application was firmly rooted by its data schema and the first step was sketching out the tables and relationships that would define how data was organized and retrieved. But that’s where the web was, not where it’s …
SD Times news digest: Android 12 Developer Preview 3, ComponentOne 2021 v1, and WhiteSource acquires Diffend
Google has announced the third developer preview of its upcoming 12.0 release. The latest preview includes a new app launch experience, new video and camera capabilities and new permissions for exact alarms that help users save battery. Developers can use new splash screen APIs and resources to manage the splash screen window’s background color, replace …
Report: DevOps teams need to foster a learning culture to thrive
A majority of DevOps teams believe that building a learning culture is highly important. According to the DevOps Institute’s Upskilling 2021 Report, 70% of respondents viewed it as a top priority. In order to build a successful learning culture, teams have to eliminate blaming and shaming its members when problems arise. The report found some …
Grafana, Loki and Tempo switch to AGPLv3
Observability platform provider Grafana Labs announced its open-source projects Grafana, Grafana Loki and Grafana Tempo will now be available under the Affero General Public License v3 (AGPLv3). The projects were previously available under the Apache License 2.0. Raj Dutt, CEO of Grafana Labs, explained it chose AGPLv3 because it is an Open Source Initiative approved …
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Lightup launches beta program for its data quality monitoring solution
Data quality monitoring company Lightup has announced a beta program intended to help customers identify issues with their data. Lightup tracks data that goes in and out of applications and detects when there are changes that would indicate data quality degradation. It takes metrics such as data availability, data delay, and data volume to determine …
SD Times news digest: RedisConf 2021 news, Octopus’ new funding, and Perfecto Scriptless
Redis Labs announced that it is adding stronger consistency, integrated data models, low sub-millisecond latency for a globally deployed database and artificial intelligence to further Redis as a real-time data platform. RedisRaft will be available in Redis 7.0 and will enable Redis to be deployed and run in a strongly consistent fashion, according to the …
Microsoft provides new details about Visual Studio 2022 release
Microsoft announced that the first public preview of Visual Studio 2022 will be released this summer. Visual Studio 2022 will be a 64-bit application and it’ll no longer be limited to ~4gb of memory in the main devenv.exe process. However, this won’t change the types or bitness of the applications developers can build with Visual …
Node.js 16 now available
Node.js 16 is now available with an upgrade to the V8 JavaScript engine, prebuilt binaries for Apple Silicon, and additional stable APIs. The V8 JavaScript engine has been updated from version 8.6 to 9.0. According to the team, this update includes ECMAScript RegExp Match Indices, which provide start and end indices for a captured string. …
SD Times news digest: Android GPU Compute changes, Xilinx’s Kria Portfolio, and ELISA Project expands its global ecosystem
The development team behind Android said that it no longer recommends RenderScript as the optimal way to run computationally-intensive code on the GPU or CPU without having to make use of the NDK or GPU-specific APIs and will deprecate the feature in Android 12. Instead, developers will have access to an open-source library that contains …
SD Times news digest: Google Play lets developers customize KPIs, Camunda’s productivity release, and Code Fellow teams up with CodeCrew
Developers can now customize and pin the precise metrics that matter to them in a personalized KPI section at the top of their Google Play Console application dashboard. Google provides an extensive list of available metrics including the new engagement and peer to peer comparisons that make it easy to find what developers want so …
Survey: Spring users rate code high in quality, maintainability and test coverage
A recent Spring Framework User Survey of Java developers found that Spring/Spring Boot users rate their code higher in quality, maintainability and test coverage that non-Spring users. The survey of 450 Java developers also found that Spring users spend 25% of their time on tests, while non-Spring users spend 20% of their time on tests. …
The battle for tech talent will require a plan (and a plan B)
After a year of pandemic-related job losses in the U.S., it might seem out of place to talk about the huge talent gap in our domestic tech industry. The reality is that the pandemic drove demand for digital customer experiences and products in an unprecedented way. In retail, for example, McKinsey reported that e-commerce skyrocketed …
IoXt extends security compliance program for mobile apps and VPNs
In an effort to standardize mobile security, 20 different companies in collaboration with the Internet of Security Things Alliance (ioXt) worked on adding a new set of security and privacy requirements for mobile apps and VPNs. Google, Amazon, NowSecure, NCC Group, DEKRA, Onware Security, and 7layers are among the companies who helped contribute to the …
SD Times news digest: Docker Desktop available for Apple Silicon, GitHub Actions with GitHub CLI, and new Harness integrations
Docker Desktop is now supported for all devices using the Apple Silicon. Users can build and run images for both x86 and ARM architectures without having to set up a complex cross-compilation development environment. Docker Hub also makes it easy to identify and share repositories that provide multi-platform images. Additional details are available here. GitHub …
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A single mobile case enables innovation, lessens maintenance
May 11, 2021, 10AM ET | 7 AM PT 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 …
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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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Hybrid vs. Native: An Introduction to cross-platform hybrid development for architects and development leaders
The growing adoption of hybrid is evident in a recent Forrester survey that found two-thirds of developers are choosing a cross-platform or web-based approach over native tools. Meanwhile, top brands like Target, Nationwide, and Southwest Airlines have chosen a hybrid approach over native to power apps for their customers and employees. Download this report to …
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How Mobile Game Cheats Unlock Mobile App Security Lessons
AVAILABLE NOW How is cheating in mobile games relevant to mobile app security in other industries? In this presentation, we highlight the top three most common areas of compromise for most mobile apps by exploring the underlying techniques used to hack and cheat popular games. As a next step, we identify several easy countermeasures for …
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CI/CD benchmarks for high-performing teams in 2021
AVAILABLE NOW Diving into the effectiveness of your delivery capabilities can tell you a lot. Do your deploys require frequent cross-team coordination? When production breaks, does it take a long time to get it up and running again? Are you getting feedback and results from your changes quickly? Join CircleCI’s Technical Content Marketing Manager, Ron …
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How to Empower Your Remote Testing Team to Deliver Perfect Mobile Apps
Available Now With many teams still working remotely because of the pandemic, distributed workforces have become the new normal. Some companies have announced a permanent work-from-home system as a result of the pandemic. In a recent survey by Kobiton, most companies with remote testing teams are struggling with device access and the ability to replicate customer bugs, resulting …
SD Times Newswire
- 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
- Exadel announced the release of CompreFace, an open-source facial recognition application
- Introducing the Neo4j Connector for Apache Spark
- Precisely delivers first end-to-end data integrity suite for confident business decisions
- CD Foundation Opens First Annual CDCon with New Members and Community Growth
