GPL Cooperation Commitment gets more support for open source licensing
Red Hat has announced its open source license enforcement initiative is making new strides. As part of the GPL Cooperation Commitment, 14 new companies have joined the effort to promote greater predictability for GPLv2 and LGPLv2.x licenses. “Through this initiative, we hope ultimately to increase participation in the use and development of open source software …
Microsoft calls for public regulation of facial recognition technology
Facial recognition has many beneficial uses for society, but it also has the potential to be misused and abused. Microsoft recognizes this and is laying out the steps it is taking to ensure facial recognition technology is used for good, as well as its recommendations to the government and the technology industry. “Advanced technology no …
SD Times news digest: Dynamsoft’s Dynamic Web TWAIN SDK, Undo’s funding round, and Intel’s latest acquisition
Dynamsoft’s Dynamic Web TWAIN document scanning SDK has been updated to version 14.0. The new version adds improvements to workflow efficiency when working with images and uploading files. It also includes an optimized HTML5 image viewer which support loading local images using drag-and-drop. The image viewer also enables users to adjust image sequences using drag-and-drop …
WSO2 introduces an integration agile approach to microservices
WSO2 announced the Summer 2018 release of its agile integration platform with a new approach to implementing microservices at WSO2Con US 2018 in San Francisco today. According to the company, while microservices are the software architecture of choice, agile development is being hindered by legacy technology. The Summer 2018 release aims to address this with …
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GitHub Enterprise 2.14 is now available
GitHub has announced the 2.14 release of its enterprise solution. GitHub Enterprise 2.14 adds several new developer tools and improvements to administration, and is designed to connect teams to “the power of the open source community.” According to the company, the release adds unified search, which allows developers to search for public content and collaborate …
Google gives Apigee more API control and visibility capabilities
Google has announced new Apigee capabilities to provide organizations with more control and visibility into their APIs. According to Google, the new capabilities will enable organizations to deliver connected experiences, create operational efficiencies, and unlock data. The company announced a new partnership with Informatica, a integration-platform-as-a-service provider, to bring new capabilities such as the ability …
SD Times news digest: TypeScript 3.0 RC, Microsoft Teams, GitHub’s security alerts for Python and Bootstrap 4.1.2
Microsoft is one step closer to TypeScript 3.0 with the latest release candidate of the JavaScript superset programming language. TypeScript 3.0 RC features project references, extracting and spreading parameter lists with tuples, richer tuple types and support for React’s defaultProps. According to the company, the biggest feature it worked on for this release is the …
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: GraphQL Engine from Hasura
With its open source release this week, GraphQL-as-a-Service company Hasura’s GraphQL Engine is looking to lift the burden on front-end and enterprise application developers who want to begin incorporating GraphQL’s data querying and manipulation capabilities in their preexisting Postgres-based applications without having to dig through the back-end of GraphQL’s code to implement it. ”GraphQL and …
Industry Spotlight: Building better app experiences with focus on web technologies
AngularJS, the popular JavaScript library, was spawned from the idea of creating a framework with an application mentality for building experiences on the Web. Version 6 was released in May with a focus on the toolchain more so than the framework itself. According to Stephen Fluin, developer advocate at Google, the idea for Angular JS …
CloudBees DevOptics adds new monitoring capabilities for DevOps teams
CloudBees is giving DevOps teams real-time value stream visibility and insights for monitoring, measuring, and managing DevOps performance with new capabilities in its DevOptics solution. According to the company, these new capabilities will solve a big problem that organizations face when trying to adopt DevOps practices, which is that they invest in new ways to …
SD Times news digest: BrowserStack debugging tools, Snowflake on Microsoft Azure and System.IO.Pipelines
BrowserStack is announcing new debugging tools and native mobile functionalities to its web and mobile app testing platform. In addition, the company announced it is adding new devices to its Real Device Cloud coverage with support for Samsung Galaxy S9, S9+ and the 2018 Apple iPad. Support for iPhone 6, 6s, 6s Plus and 2018 …
Broadcom announces plans to acquire CA Technologies for $18.9 billion
The infrastructure technology management software solution provider CA Technologies has announced it is entering into a definitive agreement to be acquired by the semiconductor company Broadcom. Broadcom is acquiring the company for $18.9 billion. CA shareholders will receive $44.50 per share in cash. “We are excited to have reached this definitive agreement with Broadcom,” said …
Investing in QA is like buying insurance: Know your risk
Chief information officers have a number of critical mandates these days, from managing diverse IT infrastructure to helping business units develop revenue-driving services and ensuring great uptime and experiences for users. The thread stitching together all of these goals is software quality. Yet CIOs aren’t always on the same page as the quality assurance team. …
Your cloud should adapt to you, not the other way around
Know your apps, know your workloads, know your team. In the second installment of this occasional series on cloud migration, Dan Boulia, GM of IBM Cloud Developer Services, and guest Lauren Nelson, principal analyst at Forrester Research, discuss the importance of designing a cloud to fit your needs, instead of redesigning your business for cloud. …
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NHS PHP Builds Mobile App and Online Patient Booking System in Less Than 7 Weeks
The NHS Practitioner Health Programme (PHP) needed an automated online patient booking system to deliver a fast, easy and confidential care service to doctors and trainees across England. In less than just 7 weeks, using OutSystems low-code development platform, they developed a new mobile app and a fully automated General Practitioner (GP) care system, which …
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How EMC Built and Scaled TheHub to Serve 12,000 Engineers
EMC needed to build a portal to help facilitate an open contribution model for its hundreds of engineering labs around the world. So, the enterprise software vendor turned to OutSystems for help. Using a low-code platform to build its portal might seem counterintuitive for one of the world’s foremost software companies. But the company knew …
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Claims tracking made easy: Insurance portal built fast with low-code platform
Concerned that brokers would move their business elsewhere, AXA, the #1 global insurance company, needed to build an innovative broker portal, fast. Using OutSystems low-code platform, AXA was able to build ‘eServe’ – a portal that provides immediate, 24/7 online access to customer claims data from any device – in just 3 months. The result? …
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Survey Results In! Your Peers Are Using Usage Analytics to Build Better Products
Date: Thursday, July 26 Time: 12:00PM ET / 09:00AM PT Gartner has identified Software Usage Analytics as an “on the rise” emerging technology that is enabling software providers to improve customer experience. But how is that translating in developers’ daily lives? According to the results of a recent survey on ISV data trends by SD …
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Embedding security into your cloud-native pipeline
Date: Tuesday, July 31 Time: 1:00PM ET / 10:00AM PT In today’s modern software factories, organizations are shifting security to the left. No longer just the purview of firewalls, security needs to be built in during development and deployment processes. By doing so, organizations can ensure they are limiting vulnerabilities getting into production while cutting …
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How IT Is Responding to Digital Disruption
Thirty-five hundred IT professionals from 116 countries share their insights in one of the most comprehensive research reports on the state of application development. Featuring an analysis of responses from IT managers, architects, and developers across all industries, this 34-page research report answers five critical questions: How are app dev priorities adjusting to this digital …
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- HarperDB Brings Geographical Data Analysis and Storage Optimization to Edge Computing
- Instana Releases Sample Microservice Application With “Stan’s Robot Shop”
- M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund, Leads $8M Codefresh Funding Round; Invests in Kubernetes Ecosystem
- Algolia empowers businesses to optimize customer experience and boost relevance with smarter experimentation
- Gengo.ai debuts world’s fastest service for acquiring advanced multilingual machine-learning training data
- SmartBear unites BDD with test automation to accelerate shifting left
- AdaCore’s GNAT Pro Ada toolchain released for BlackBerry QNX
- Red Hat enhances foundation for digital transformation with latest version of Red Hat Virtualization
- SUSE Ready certification for SUSE CaaS Platform now available for partners’ containerized applications
- TimeXtender Discovery Hub is now Microsoft Azure certified
- Other code review tools left behind as Collaborator streamlines workflows with unified code and document review
- Magento Commerce announces Progressive Web Applications Studio
