Biometrics: An evolving industry with unique risks
As evidenced in the world of business, government and everyday life, the technology of biometrics is widespread and expanding. For example, people can unlock their smartphones with their faces. Banks can recognize customers by the sound of their voice, and police can identify suspects with automated fingerprinting. These are just some of the common applications …
IBM introduces new operating system for IBM Z systems
IBM has announced the next generation of its operating system for its IBM Z systems, which are a suite of mainframe servers. IBM z/OS V2.5 is designed to accelerate the adoption of hybrid cloud and AI as well as drive modernization initiatives. A recent study conducted by the IBM Institute for Business Value revealed that …
SD Times news digest: DataRobot to acquire Algorithmia, Synopsys announces Rapid Scan, Thundra announces Foresight CI Observability Tool
DataRobot announced that it’s acquiring the MLOps platform Algorithmia to deepen its capabilities to unlock value from AI through better, faster, frictionless solutions for every part of the modern enterprise. “We understand that businesses cannot get the value of their ML models unless they have the ability to deliver those models quickly, reliably, and at …
Nearly a quarter-century later, why is C++ still so popular?
Despite C++’s downward trend on the TIOBE Programming Community index since 2001, the language’s fall from the coveted top two slots in 2020, vociferous and persistent claims that C++ is “dead like COBOL,” and the inroads the Rust is making in developer circles – C++ is still as viable, vital and relevant as ever. There’s …
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The bumpy road of moving applications to the cloud
Everywhere you look, companies are involved in some sort of digital transformation. For some, it means moving their entire business to the cloud which may include building or purchasing software for payroll, ordering, fulfillment and many other activities. For larger firms, entrenched with legacy applications, it means migrating or rewriting hundreds or perhaps thousands of …
SD Times news digest: MobileTogether 7.3, Sila announces $13 million Series A round, and Cloudflare launches Project Pangea
Altova announced the release of MobileTogether 7.3, a rapid app development platform for building enterprise solutions. The latest release introduces options to enable in-app purchases in the native iOS, Android, and Windows apps they create using MobileTogether and the ability to embed the MobileTogether Windows client in one’s own UWP. It also adds support for …
Five tips for Olympian applications
The performance of world-class athletes as they train for the Olympic Games and engineering the performance of your applications in preparation for production releases share some interesting traits. In this blog, I want to share some basic guiding principles that will help make your applications finish strong. Efficiency, Not Just Speed Not every Olympic sport …
SD Times news digest: New Relic for Startups available on AWS Activate, Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Private Preview, Xojo 2021 release 2
As part of AWS Activate and New Relic for Startups, startup founders and engineering teams get exclusive discounts, free credits, and support for New Relic’s cloud-based observability platform. “While you might have a great product market fit, a prototype, and a pitch deck, an idea is often only as good as the infrastructure you have …
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Accessibility Insights
Accessibility Insights is an open source project created by Microsoft aimed at helping developers build more accessible software. It was created internally at Microsoft and then released as an open source solution in 2019. “We were motivated by Microsoft’s mission to ‘empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.’ We realized …
Google enabling data-driven experiences at scale through new Looker updates
Google today announced new features that will help organizations deliver data-driven experiences at scale in Looker 21, the platform that allows anyone in a business to quickly analyze and find insights in datasets. One new feature is the Extension Framework available as part of the new Looker Developer Portal. The framework allows developers to build applications …
SD Times news digest: Xamarin.Essentials 1.7 and .NET MAUI Essentials, Jamf announces enhancements to Jamf Marketplace and Jamf Developer Portal, New Adobe Doc Cloud Developer Tools
The Xamarin.Essentials 1.7 release focuses on critical bug fixes and introduces enhancements to the Web Authenticator API. There is a new API for private authentication sessions on iOS. Also, Microsoft introduced .NET MAUI Essentials as the future of Xamarin.Forms and is now directly integrated into .NET MAUI starting with .NET 6 Preview 6 and .NET …
Latest Python Extension for VS Code release introduces faster way to set project roots
Microsoft has announced the July 2021 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code. This release introduces a quicker way of configuring project roots. According to Microsoft, a common issue developers have is that developers see diagnostics under import statements when opening new projects, but they don’t know how to resolve them. Configuring project …
SD Times news digest: Dremio launches SQL Lakehouse Service, Fastly launched JavaScript in Compute@Edge, Crystal 1.1 released
The SQL lakehouse company Dremio announced its cloud-native SQL-based data lakehouse service, Dremio Cloud. The new service enables organizations to leverage no-copy open data architecture that eliminates the need to copy data into expensive and proprietary warehouses. It enables high-performance SQL workloads directly on cloud storage. “We built Dremio to automatically handle any scale with …
GitHub Copilot sparks debates around open-source licenses
A few weeks ago GitHub released its Copilot solution, which uses AI to suggest code to developers. Developers can write a comment in their code and Copilot will automatically write the code it thinks is appropriate. It’s an impressive example of the power of AI, but has many developers and members of the open-source community …
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The broad responsibilities of the expanding developer domain
LIVE! TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2021 @ 1PM ET/10AM PT What developers do and how they do it continues to change dramatically. Developers have had to take on additional responsibilities as organizations have cut back or disbanded specialist teams focused on software QA, security and governance. Once primarily originators of code, many developers now assemble software …
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Enterprise Observability: Behind the Term
AVAILABLE NOW With the increasing complexity of modern cloud-native applications, enterprise observability is critical to delivering high-quality services. In this webinar we will look behind the term to talk about what enterprise observability brings to operations and DevOps teams. Attendees also will learn about vital components of Instana’s Enterprise Observability Platform, and more importantly, how …
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Protect All Your Applications: A Low Code Approach
AVAILABLE NOW A recent study conducted by Aite group found that 97% of financial apps have no protections against decompiling and viewing source code. In fact, of the 4+ million apps in Google’s Play Store and Apple’s App Store, the majority are not sufficiently protected to stop even the most basic reverse engineering attack. This …
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It’s Data First When Modernizing Applications
AVAILABLE NOW While modernization is essential to staying competitive in today’s IT landscape, businesses are modernizing at a much faster pace than the software needed to keep up with them. 74% of organizations fail to complete legacy system modernization. Whether attempting a full migration to microservices or trying to unwind a dependency on an old, …
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Move Fast & DON’T Break Things: Modernize Your SDLC without Compromising Customer Trust
AVAILABLE NOW Companies around the world and across a myriad of industries are feeling the pressures of evolving from legacy, on-prem infrastructure to hybrid and cloud-native architectures. Meanwhile, both B2B and B2C buyers today demand faster delivery—whether of business or consumer-facing services. And with COVID-19 forcing a global shift to remote work, enterprises now have …
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How to improve testing and save valuable developer time
AVAILABLE NOW Shifting testing left is an effective technique to ensure application quality doesn’t suffer as the page of software delivery quickens. But how do you test smaller chunks of work rapidly and earlier in the SDLC without stressing your internal teams? And why use your highly skilled developers and testers to validate the functionality …
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- ConnectALL’s VSM platform now offering enhanced test management adapter to accelerate software delivery
- Melissa Cites the Single Customer View as Vital to Customer-Centric Marketing
- ConnectALL Appoints Eric Robertson as Senior Advisor to the Office of COO and President
- Planview Names Razat Gaurav as Chief Executive Officer
- Melissa fuels smarter direct mail strategies that recognize the shift to work-from-home
- 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
