As the New York City Velocity conference winds to a close, this year’s Web operations and performance event was highlighted by some engaging speakers and a laundry list of Web development news and releases from companies big and small. In addition, Mikey Dickerson, a former Google engineering manager who’s now a member of the tech … continue reading
Applications have gotten smarter, and with methodologies like agile, continuous delivery and DevOps, releases and updates have gotten faster. But are application-monitoring approaches keeping up? “The way people build applications today has fundamentally changed over the last three to four years. But while applications have evolved, application monitoring is still about showing people charts and … continue reading
Docker has taken the software development field by storm. Since launching as an open-source project in March 2013, it has been downloaded more than 21 million times and is used by thousands of organizations. And now the company has announced that it has just closed a US$40 million series C round of funding, just eight … continue reading
Scalr, providers of the leading open-source enterprise cloud management platform, today announced the release of Scalr 5.0. This release furthers Scalr’s focus on supporting enterprise cloud computing by delivering the perfect balance of management and control for IT, new integration capabilities for DevOps engineers, and precise financial controls for the CFO. Scalr 5.0 enhancements that … continue reading
Amid the many Web operations and performance presentations at the New York Velocity Conference, one keynote tackled the role of DevOps and developers in driving enterprise innovation. Justin Arbuckle, chief enterprise architect for IT infrastructure automation provider Chef, gave a keynote on “Myths of Control,” gleaned from his two decades of experience in large financial … continue reading
MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache Hadoop, today announced the availability of the 4.0.1 version of the MapR Distribution including Hadoop. Providing comprehensive open source support and unique enterprise capabilities, the latest MapR release expands real-time capabilities for use cases including operational applications, interactive queries and stream processing with new versions … continue reading
Android L’s material design is a new style of visual, motion and interactive design that can be applied to Android apps. But with this new functionality, developers have to start thinking about baseline grids, keylines and spacing markers. As a result, UI engineer Lucas Rocha, currently at Mozilla working on Firefox for Android, has created … continue reading
Cloud Technology Partners is shifting its emphasis from migrating applications to the cloud to making them cloud-ready through modernization, culminating in today’s release of version 2.5 of its PaaSLane application platform. “Companies are moving the simplest, least important apps [to the cloud] to see how they can make the cloud work for them,” said Ben … continue reading
Dynamsoft has upgraded its web TWAIN software development kit (SDK) to include support for the development of document scanning modules within the HTML5-based Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox (version 27 and above) browsers. It’s well known in the industry that leading browser providers are phasing out support of the Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI). … continue reading
After several days of reports and speculation, Microsoft and Minecraft developer Mojang officially confirmed their US$2.5 billion deal. Most of the staff of Mojang, the Stockholm-based developer of the popular gaming franchise, will join the Microsoft Studios team, which includes companies behind games such as Fable and Halo. Microsoft will continue to make Minecraft available … continue reading
Moxtra, Inc. today announced the official launch of its power communication + collaboration SDK for mobile app developers. With a few lines of code, developers can integrate rich, real-time interactive conversation capabilities into their apps to drive engagement between app users. Launched within an app via a ‘Moxo’ button, the Moxtra SDK allows app owners … continue reading
Google releases Chrome tool to remove Windows software Google has released a new software removal tool for its Chrome browser that scans and removes software that may be causing problems in Chrome. The Google SRT tool, currently still in beta, is Windows-only software that tries to detect if a user has installed software that changes … continue reading
