Industry leaders launch data security consortium
As computing moves from on-premises to the public cloud and the edge, protecting has data has become more complex, prompting Intel, Google, Microsoft, the Linux Foundation and other technology partners to launch a cross-industry effort for organizations to safely share data insights through the Confidential Computing Consortium. RELATED CONTENT: Microsoft tackles data sharing between organizations “The …
Report: Elite DevOps performers have tripled since last year
The proportion of elite performers in DevOps utilization has almost tripled since last year, comprising 20 percent of all teams according to a newly released report. The Accelerate State of DevOps Report 2019 is the 6th annual report from DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA), which was acquired by Google Cloud in January of this year.The …
SD Times news digest: Amazon Forecast now available, GitHub supports WebAuthn for security keys, and Qt for MCUs
AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Forecast, which enables developers to build applications with the same machine learning technology used by Amazon.com for forecasting business conditions. According to the company, Amazon Forecast automatically discovers how variables such as product features, seasonality and store locations affect each other and can make predictions that are up …
Project Marble now stable in Android Studio 3.5
Google is focused on making developers day-to-day app development easier in the latest release of its IDE Android Studio. This release makes the company’s Project Marble, an initiative where the company focused on system health, feature polish and bugs, now stable. “Have you ever wished that Android Studio was faster, more performant, and more memory …
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Simplifying microservices with a service mesh
In the world of software, things are getting smaller all the time: smaller teams, smaller bits of code, smaller releases, smaller places for code to live and execute (containers). The point of getting smaller is to allow your organization to think bigger by getting the most advantage out of cloud resources and bringing more value …
SD Times news digest: DigitalOcean announces managed databases for MySQL and Redis, Waymo’s Open Dataset, and GitHub Enterprise Server 2.18
DigitalOcean is expanding on its managed database solutions with new releases for MySQL and Redis. Managed databases are a critical component of application development and provides terabytes of storage, ability to process thousands of I/O operations, and enables data access with minimum latency, the company explained. The new releases allows developers to now use MySQL …
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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- 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
