premium In the wake of COVID-19, the offshoring model must change
With a market greater than US$50 billion in India alone, there is no denying the offshoring model works. It helps companies test, develop and bring digital products – like many of the gadgets, apps and technologies we use today – to market in a relatively cost-effective manner. That said, it’s no secret that the COVID-19 …
premium User feedback can be found in unlikely places
In 2013, customer experience firm Walker released a report in which it predicted that by 2020, user experience would be the key differentiator for brands, and price and product would become less important to users when choosing among different digital services. Well, 2020 is here, and that prediction seems to have been pretty accurate. In …
SD Times news digest: Remembering Frances Allen, Syncfusion charts control for Uno, and Google Grasshopper Gallery on desktop
Frances “Fran” Allen, the first female IBM Fellow and the first woman to win the Turing Award, died on August 4, 2020, the day of her 88th birthday. She was a pioneer in compiler organization and optimization algorithms and made seminal contributions to the world of computing. Her work on inter-procedural analysis and automatic parallelization …
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: OpenAPI Comment Parser
IBM has released a new open-source API documentation tool to help developers provide better documentation and try out new APIs. The OpenAPI Comment Parser enables developers to document code for OpenAPI specs in a clean and simple way. The company focuses on the OpenAPI specification because it provides an open standard to define and document …
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Microsoft previews Visual Studio 2019 v16.7 and v16.8
Microsoft announced Preview 1 of its upcoming Visual Studio version 16.7 and Visual Studio version 16.8 releases. New features in Visual Studio 2019 v16.7 include Git integration with a new merge editor and easy conflict resolution, WPF design-time data, C++ support for 64-bit projects and debug builds, and additional IntelliSense functionality. The Visual Studio merge editor …
Angular provides more insight into upcoming releases
Angular has announced a new roadmap in order to update users on what the team is working on and projects it may be considering in the future. According to the team, this is the first formal roadmap it has published, and it will maintain it quarterly. “We see the roadmap release as a footprint for …
SD Times news digest: Sumo Logic announces observability solutions, Flutter 1.2 released and in-app review API for Google Play
Sumo Logic released the Sumo Logic AWS Observability Solution and the Sumo Logic Software Development Observability Solution to deepen observability across operations, security, business, and customer experiences power by continuous intelligence. “Observability is the latest evolutionary step in methodology that DevOps and DevSecOps teams employ to deliver reliable digital services that, in turn, deliver best-in-class …
Harness acquires continuous integration company Drone.io
Continuous delivery as a service provider Harness announced that it acquired Drone.io, the creator of the open-source project Drone. Drone is a continuous delivery system build on container technology. With this new acquisition, Harness hopes to enable DevOps engineers to build, test and deploy software on-demand, without delay or downtime. Drone.io plugins are containerized and …
Limelight Networks Developer Central provides easy access to collaboration tools
Limelight Networks has introduced Developer Central, a resource center designed to provide developers with an array of tools to easily manage, monitor, and integrate Limelight services. It offers a new interactive API explorer, SDKs, sample code, OpenAPI documentation and a community forum to help users get answers fast. “This one-stop resource center puts Limelight’s innovation …
Skills that matter for software developers looking to get hired
The world may seem like it is on pause as the COVID-19 pandemic continues, but technology is still advancing and the skills gap between talent and job requirements is widening. Microsoft estimates that there will be 149 million new technology jobs by 2025. There will be 1 million new jobs for privacy and trust, 6 …
SD Times news digest: Appvia’s Kore Cost, OpenLogic by Perforce expands Java support, and Android App Bundle improvements
Appvia announced a new feature that allows users to manage cloud spending with the Kore Cost prediction and visibility tool. With the new solution, engineering teams are also able to see cost implications across different cloud providers and reusable cloud templates (plans), and immediately see how altering node pool sizes and instances would change these …
Jenkins graduates from the CD Foundation
The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) announced that Jenkins is the first project to graduate by demonstrating growing adoption, an open governance process, feature maturity, and a strong commitment to community, sustainability, and inclusivity. Jenkins is an open-source automation server and CI/CD system that provides the ability to connect all tools and customize to fit any …
Autonomous testing: Are we there yet?
A couple of years ago, there was a lot of hype about using AI and machine learning (ML) in testing, but not a lot to show for it. Today, there are many options that deliver important benefits, not the least of which are reducing the time and costs associated with testing. However, a hands-on evaluation …
AI and ML make testing smarter… but autonomous tools are a long way from being enterprise-ready
AI and machine learning (ML) are finding their way into more applications and use cases. The software testing vendors are increasingly offering “autonomous” capabilities to help customers become yet more efficient. Those capabilities are especially important for Agile and DevOps teams that need to deliver quality at speed. However, autonomous testing capabilities are relatively new, …
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Time to Say Yes to NoSQL
A strong case can be made for why organizations should adopt NoSQL. About 90% of the data that exists today was created in the last two years, and relational databases cannot effectively manage most of it. Nevertheless, nearly all organizations still cling to their legacy relational databases, collectively paying tens of billions of dollars each …
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Relational to NoSQL: Getting Started from SQL Server
At the heart of every digital economy business are its web, mobile, and Internet of Things(IoT) applications: they’re the primary way companies interact with customers today, and how companies run more and more of their business. The experiences that companies deliver via those apps largely determine how satisfied – and how loyal – customers will …
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Digital Transformation: Can Architects Meet the Demands of the Digital Age?
Architects are certainly feeling the pressure of digital transformation – 41% say they are under high or extremely high pressure, and 68% say that getting the right technologies in place for digital transformation can seem an insurmountable task. Despite this pressure, architects are still having to scale back their ambitions. It is well understood that …
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Jump Start Mobile Testing
In working with some of the world’s largest enterprise mobility teams, Mobile Labs has had the opportunity to observe some of the most successful mobile testing labs in action. The best practitioners manage to retain the traditional goals of QA while incorporating new requirements brought forth by mobile while solving new challenges mobility imposes on …
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Cloud Cost Data Pays Off: A Case Study
With customer growth trending up, Drift needed a way to be able sustain new AI-based features and increased customer utilization, while simultaneously reducing cost and improving product margins. They turned to CloudZero, whose cost-mapping features and anomaly alerts helped them to save over $150K a month in AWS costs, enable a culture of cost-conscious engineering …
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Practical Steps To Reduce AWS Bill
Anyone who builds on AWS knows controlling costs and eliminating waste can be challenging, especially if you’re not sure where to look or your cloud environment isn’t optimized perfectly. In this detailed guide, CloudZero founder Matt Manger highlights some practical steps you can take to better assess your bill and reduce your AWS spend, including: …
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- Matillion launches Matillion ETL for Azure Synapse empowering users with data transformation capabilities for rapid access to insights
- F5 accelerates customers’ digital transformation with end-to-end application visibility and control
- D2 Emerge to launch industry’s first value stream event targeting development teams
- Next Generation State-Of-The-Art Embedded Systems Development Platform Announced by Embeddetech
- Next Generation State-Of-The-Art Embedded Systems Development Platform Announced by Embeddetech
- Exadel announces new leadership to support growing digital transformation solutions and services
- Parasoft partners with HackEDU to empower software developers with context-sensitive Application Security Training
- ArangoDB boosts multi-model database performance with release of ArangoDB 3.6
- CData Software partners with Tableau to expand cloud data connectivity
- Circonus launches machine data intelligence platform
- MarkLogic developers achieve boosted speed and agility with the Red Hat Universal Base Image for Containers
- BBYY Pumps FlexiCapture with Machine Learning Technology to Process Enterprise Content at Industry Leading Rates
