PyTorch 1.7 now available with new APIs, profiling, and benchmarking tools
The latest version of the open-source machine learning library PyTorch is now available. PyTorch 1.7 introduces new APIs, support for CUDA 11, updates to profiling and performance for RPC, TorchScript, and Stack tracers. New front end APIs include torch.fft, which is a module for implementing FFT-related functions; C++ support for nn.transformer module abstraction from the …
Google Firebase adds new building blocks to accelerate application development
Google is updating its mobile platform Firebase with new building blocks to accelerate app development. The company made a number of announcements at its Firebase Summit 2020 this week. “Over the past few months, we’ve seen that apps not only improve the way we live, they also enhance our ability to adapt to change. In 2020, …
SD Times news digest: Tasktop Flow Institute launched, Bugsnag announces new user stability analytics, and Enso raises $6 million for app security
The newly launched Tasktop Flow Institute online community for business leaders offers custom courses and content to gain practical knowledge and skills, as well as better understand value stream management and Tasktop Flow Metrics, according to the company. “Becoming a software innovator means knowing how to measure what matters across your entire software portfolio,” said …
CodeSentry launched to find security blind spots in third-party code
GrammaTech has announced a new software composition analysis (SCA) product, CodeSentry, that is designed to detect vulnerabilities in application components including binaries, and create a detailed software bill of materials. According to the company, it identifies blind spots and allows security professionals to measure and manage risk quickly throughout the SDLC. With the bill of …
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Next.js 10 released with new front-end development capabilities
The React framework Next.js is getting a major update for front-end development. Vercel, the Next.js company, announced Next.js 10 at its user conference today with new ways for front-end developers to create rich web experiences. “Performance, or lack of it, is the most critical factor in the success or failure of the modern web site,” …
Grafana Labs updates its observability portfolio with several new products
Grafana Labs has made a number of updates to its observability portfolio this week at its virtual ObservabilityCON conference. The updates include the release of Loki 2.0, Grafana Tempo, Grafana 7.3, new plugins, and Grafana Metrics Enterprise. Loki 2.0 includes improvements to the query language, allowing users to transform logs and extract additional labels, according to …
Why cloud is critical in the post-COVID period
According to a recent Deloitte report on post COVID-19 enterprise implications, “…the pandemic is reshaping the global business landscape and fundamentally changing how people around the world live and work… However, every new normal eventually gets replaced by a new new normal, so in our view it makes sense to call the post-COVID business environment …
SD Times news digest: GraphQL Editor 3.0 released, Applitools integrations with GitHub and Microsoft, and React 17
The latest version of the GraphQL Editor is now available. The main feature in the 3.0 release is the ability to facilitate and manage a GraphQL schema. The release also introduced a completely reworked hierarchy view and new Organizer Mode, allowing for even faster creation and navigation through the schema. The new version also contains …
Report finds a shortage of open-source talent
Open-source software may be the backbone of software development, but finding open-source talent is proving to be difficult. In the latest Linux Foundation and edX 2020 Open Source Jobs Report, while 81% of respondents say hiring open-source talent is a top priority, 93% of hiring managers report trouble finding the skills. The report also revealed …
LF AI Foundation and ODPi merge efforts for open-source developments in AI and open data
The LF AI Foundation and ODPi merged to support a growing portfolio of technologies and to drive open source collaboration across AI and data. The LF AI Foundation supports open-source innovation in artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning while ODPi focuses on big data solutions. Together, the organizations will make up the LF AI …
AppSec vs. DevSecOps, and what that means for developers
Traditional application security is different in two key ways from what has come to be known as DevSecOps. First, modern software companies are integrating application security into their DevOps pipelines, so security becomes part of the flow. Second, it’s also about DevOps being built into application security. Patrick Carey, who leads product strategy in the …
SD Times news digest: DataKitchen’s DataOps Transformation Advisory Service, Netlify team overview, and Rackspace’s new IoT solutions
The new DataOps advisory service by DataKitchen aims to help customers achieve an enterprise DataOps transformation by leveraging industry-leading DataOps expertise and the company’s critical capabilities necessary to launch a successful and sustainable DataOps initiative. Customers can now choose from a menu of services such as Strategic DataOps, Technical DataOps, Maturity Model Assessment, DataOps Dojo …
Apache Cassandra indexing without having to say I’m sorry
Recently, there’s been a new change proposal for Cassandra indexing that attempts to reduce the tradeoff between usability and stability: Making the WHERE clause much more interesting and useful for end-users. This new method is called Storage-Attached Indexing (SAI). It’s not the flashiest name, but what do you expect? Engineers aren’t known for naming things, …
Report: The emergence of Big Code comes with big problems
Despite efforts to make building and maintaining applications more maintainable, code is still growing in volume, variety, velocity and value. As a result, the trend Big Code has emerged and is expected to be just as disruptive to development teams as Big Data was to data teams. “Today’s massive codebases make it difficult for developers …
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SEO QA – What is it and why should you implement it?
Agile engineering teams need to focus on delivering high quality code at pace. However, ensuring releases don’t negatively impact search engine optimization (SEO) often sits way down the priority list. But what if you could rapidly automate SEO tests as part of the QA process, fully integrate them into the CI / CD system, and …
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Remote working mistakes that could be killing your developers’ innovative output and performance
The pace of innovation is accelerating. Yet continuous WFH diminishes software teams’ output. What can you do to increase individual – and team – performance, without burning out? Join guest speaker Nils Vesk and Devtech Group for a live session that unpacks the 14 most common mistakes affecting your team’s performance. Nils also explains how …
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What role do developers have in application security?
A big one, as it turns out. Organizations aren’t looking at security as just being perimeter protection anymore. The applications themselves need to be built from the ground up with protections that ensure data integrity and prevent compromise. Security departments used to have the primary responsibility to ensure these goals, but as the pace of …
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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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- CD Foundation Opens First Annual CDCon with New Members and Community Growth
- Melissa delivers global address verification to the Allscripts practice financial platform
- Codefresh reports unprecedented team growth with addition of three new executives
- Optimizely Announces Enhanced Experimentation Platform at Opticon20
- Sonatype and NeuVector partner to centralize container and open source security
- Melissa extends global sponsorship of SQLSaturdays
- New Aerospike Connect product line makes Aerospike Database 5 plug-compatible with enterprise-wide data stores
- ThreatModeler announces automated threat modeling for legacy applications
- DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas Virtual releases agenda
- ConnectALL Announces Support for Business Outcomes in Its Value Stream Management Solutions
- BurstIQ launches full developer toolset for blockchain-enabled applications and services
- Code review automation service Sider is now compatible with GitLab
