Why and how financial institutions are modernizing testing
Today financial services firms face unprecedented consumer expectations. The pressure is on to produce always-on apps that deliver whenever and however users need it. Organizations are responding to this pressure by choosing to focus on DevOps, agile development and other initiatives that can accelerate time to market, boost performance and improve efficiency. Those producing the …
SD Times news digest: Progress releases new Kendo UI Native components, Platform9 announces new DevOps productivity capabilities, and Visual Studio 2019 v 16.9 preview 3
This week’s update of Progress’ Kendo UI includes 24 new UI components across all Kendo UI libraries as well as support for Angular 11 and React 17. Kendo UI for Angular introduces components including DropDownTree, MultiColumnComboBox, TileLayout, FloatingActionButton and more while KendoReact includes many of the same features alongside added built-in keyboard navigation and UI …
Red Hat expands ways to access RHEL
Red Hat has announced a number of new updates coming to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to make it more accessible to developers and development teams. “Just as in the past, we’re committed to making the RHEL ecosystem work for as broad a community as we can, whether it’s individuals or organizations seeking to run …
Microsoft reveals plans for the Entity Framework Core 6.0
Microsoft has revealed its plans for the Entity Framework Core 6.0. The company plans on working on the most requested features, based on user feedback through the project’s GitHub page. Current features planned include SQL Server temporal tables, JSON columns, and the ability to have arbitrary ordering of columns when creating a table with Migrations. …
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Elastic changes software license to better protect Elasticsearch and Kibana
Elastic is the latest company changing its software licensing model to protect its open-source code from cloud providers. The company announced its Apache 2.0-licensed source code in Elasticsearch and Kibana will now be moving to a dual license under the Server Side Public License (SSPL) and the Elastic License. This means users can choose which …
SD Times news digest: Splice Machine Feature Store launched, Command PATH security fix in Go, and Sensory VoiceHub released
The newly announced Splice Machine Feature Store is designed to help companies implement machine learning in their operations by providing data scientists with actionable real-time data and by reducing the complexity of feature engineering. “The old way of doing things meant data science operations were simply not scalable. The Splice Machine Feature Store enables you …
Infragistics’ Indigo.Design App Builder preview released
The developer preview of Indigo.Design App Builder by Infragistics is now available. It is a digital design platform that streamlines app creation from design to code by enabling collaboration between designers and developers, according to the company. Creating the user interface of an application takes up to 60% of the total time spent on an …
Rookout announces new X-ray vision feature for third-party dependencies
Debugging platform Rookout has announced a new X-ray vision feature that will enable developers to look into third-party dependencies and check for bugs within them. The company explained that debugging third-party code, whether from a vendor, an open-source project, or an ex-employee, can present a number of challenges, especially when it comes to debugging. According …
Quali announces new funding to address infrastructure complexity in enterprise DevOps
Infrastructure automation company Quali has announced a $53 million new round of funding co-led by Greenfield Partners and JVP. Quali revealed it intends to use the new funding to streamline enterprise DevOps infrastructure through its CloudShell platform, as well as continue to grow its partnerships and team. “With the growing adoption of DevOps and CI/CD …
SD Times news digest: Ionic Capacitor 3.0 beta released, GitHub Enterprise Server 3.0, and Accenture acquires Wolox
Ionic has announced the beta release of Ionic Capacitor 3.0. The new version of the cross-platform runtime includes improvements to community involvement, adaptability, first-class APIs, and developer experience and productivity. Ionic also added the Proposals repo to make it easier to plug in ideas into a project by creating proposals as well as gauge interest …
Microsoft on how open source and software development can improve in 2021
2020 was a big year for open source. Sixty million new repositories were created last year, and more than 56 million developers are now on GitHub, according to GitHub’s Octoverse report. This prompted Microsoft to lay out a few things developers can do to improve their engagement with open source moving forward. The first lesson …
SD Times news digest: GridGain 8.8 released, Aerospike Connect for Presto, and LLVM 11.0.1 released
The latest release of GridGain’s in-memory computing platform includes enhanced support for its multi-tier database engine. The dictionary-based cache entry compression is now capable of compression ratios of up to 60% on real-world scenarios. The introduction of defragmentation reduces data files and frees up disk space while storing current cached data durability on a disk. …
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: AlmaLinux
AlmaLinux is an enterprise-grade server OS that CloudLinux released to replace CentOS. According to the company, it will serve as a free Linux OS for the community, and be ready within the first quarter of this year. Right after Red Hat announced that it’s CentOS stable release is no longer under development last month, CloudLinux …
State of JavaScript 2020 report reveals shakeup among popular frameworks
The latest State of JavaScript report reveals that while React and Vue are still the most popular JavaScript frameworks, the framework Svelte is starting to establish itself as a top contender for the top spot. Svelte has a user based that is 89% satisfied with it. Sixty-six percent of survey respondents were interested in using …
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Value Stream Management, One Year Later
January 28, 2021 @ 1PM ET | 10AM PT As the practice of value stream management matures, new ways to look at it have emerged, including the kinds of platforms being used and even where in an organization the practice can be implemented. Join our panel of experts, who in a power talk last year …
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How to Effectively Manage the Modern Risks of Open-Source Code
February 16, 2021 @ 1PM ET | 10AM PT Today’s modern applications depend on of a substantial amount of open source components and third-party libraries, and developers acknowledge that utilizing open source allows them to focus more on unique code attributes instead of recreating what’s already been successfully established. Although organizations acknowledge a heightened level …
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The 2020 Managed Open Source Survey Results
In this year’s survey, we collected data about how the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing recession are changing the way respondents’ organizations think about and use open source. We explore how organizations manage their open source dependencies today, why and when their leaders encourage the use of open source, and the key benefits they get from …
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Getting the bugs out of your debugging process
Choosing your software’s architecture is no simple task. One important consideration when doing so is the ease, or the challenges, of debugging that come with it. Whether it is a monolithic architecture or a distributed system, they both present individual challenges to the debugging process. As we analyze this architectural spectrum, this paper will show …
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Centers of Excellence Playbook
Why digital transformation? Why now? For organizations trying to drive digital transformation, one of the greatest challenges is creating an org-wide culture that’s receptive to innovation. Many organizations that foster this culture successfully do so by implementing Centers of Excellence. Check out this eBook to better understand how to successfully create centers of excellence in …
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Overcoming Disruption: Creating an Adaptable Supply Chain with Low-Code
Low-code platforms can help companies across industries improve visibility into complex processes and increase efficiency to address many supply chain challenges while also helping keep employees safe and better prepared for future disruption. In this whitepaper, you will learn how to: • Eliminate manual processes for true end-to-end transparency • Gain real-time, actionable insights to …
SD Times Newswire
- 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
- SmartBear strengthens leadership team with new EVP/GM of products and technology
- Exadel announced the release of CompreFace, an open-source facial recognition application
- Introducing the Neo4j Connector for Apache Spark
- Precisely delivers first end-to-end data integrity suite for confident business decisions
- 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
