Every successful tech startup begins with a great idea. The first season of HBO’s “Silicon Valley” found an unassuming software developer stumbling across his, and fighting for his vision of what it should be. The second season opens with a modern Silicon Valley phenomenon: venture capital companies lining up to give said developer piles of … continue reading
Mendix and Pivotal today announced a partnership that brings Mendix’s no-code, rapid application development capabilities to Pivotal Cloud Foundry, the leading enterprise Platform as a Service (PaaS), based on Cloud Foundry. The partnership helps accelerate CIOs’ journey to modern IT by enabling business users to rapidly build applications with Mendix’s visual tools and easily deploy … continue reading
When it comes to Silicon Valley, it is the venture capitalists that are the big-name Hollywood producers. Convince one of them to get on board, and your dreams of digital riches could come true. That was certainly the case with .NET on Linux and mobile company Xamarin, one of Max Gazor’s first investments when he … continue reading
Enterprise mobile app developers continue to grapple with many of the familiar dilemmas for creating apps that will best serve their organizations in the next year and beyond. As in any year, developers will be looking to increase the productivity of their organization’s employees (and perhaps partners) who are using the app, which can be … continue reading
Amazon debuted a new Amazon Machine Learning service at the AWS Summit in San Francisco this week, allowing users to employ predictive modeling on large-scale data batches. Amazon Machine Learning supports binary classification, multiclass classification, and regression predictions on a customer’s data. Developers can also add code based on the service’s predictions to influence its … continue reading
This week’s GitHub Project of the Week is Vector, a newly open-sourced tool from Netflix for host-level performance monitoring. Vector is a framework for exposing handpicked high-resolution system and application metrics to every engineer’s browser. It implements the open-source Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) framework with a new UI and configurable cross-metric dashboards, allowing users to visualize … continue reading
While developers push updates to their software every day, one organization is working on eliminating the need for those updates. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced a four-year research initiative to create software that lasts for 100 years. “Technology inevitably evolves, but very often corresponding changes in libraries, data formats, protocols, input … continue reading
Containers are changing the way developers architect, build, test and deploy cloud-based applications. At the Container Summit held yesterday in New York, the convergence of Docker, microservices and OS-level virtualization was front and center. “Containers are eating the world,” said the event’s emcee, Joyent CEO Scott Hammond, borrowing from Netscape founder Marc Andreessen’s famous declaration … continue reading
IBM reportedly has begun testing artificial intelligence software that mimics the human brain. The MIT Technology Review has reported that IBM is testing algorithms from Numenta, a machine learning company. “Our goal is not to be biologically inspired; I want to recreate exactly,” Jeff Hawkins, cofounder of Numenta, told the Technology Review. IBM is testing … continue reading
AnyPresence, the leading enterprise backend-as-a-service (MBaaS) platform, today announced the launch of JustAPIs, a revolutionary solution for building and deploying modern, RESTful APIs. IT organizations and enterprise developers who need to define custom API workflows within the corporate firewall, now have an easy, affordable solution that can complement existing MBaaS, MEAP/MADP, or app development frameworks. … continue reading
Varnish Software, the company behind the web performance engine Varnish Cache, announced today the release of its new Varnish API Engine. The new product helps developers manage the proliferation of API calls in the modern age of apps and the Internet of Things (IoT). Early customer trials indicate that the Varnish API Engine can handle … continue reading
Sencha, a leading provider of HTML5 desktop and mobile web application development technology, today announced the Sencha Web Application Lifecycle Management Platform. In response to increasing fragmentation of devices, mobile platforms and operating systems, the new Sencha Platform empowers development and IT departments with a unified and comprehensive approach to application development, including designing, rapidly … continue reading
