Developers looking for resources and information around JavaScript have a new resource. Developer-focused online learning company Code School today announced it is providing JavaScript.com, a new online community dedicated to the client-side programming language and libraries. “JavaScript has become one of the most important coding languages and pervades nearly everything in the tech world, but … continue reading
IBM is looking to accelerate innovation for the Spark ecosystem with its latest commitments to the open-source project. According to the company, the Big Data processing engine is potentially the most significant open-source project of the decade. “Spark is undoubtedly a force to be reckoned with in the Big Data ecosystem,” said Beth Smith, general … continue reading
Rancher Labs has announced the beta launch of its open-source infrastructure platform for containers. Rancher is designed to provide a set of services for managing containers in production. Features include cross-host networking, container load balancing, storage management, service discovery, service upgrades, resource management, native Docker support, and multi-tenancy and user management. “Much of the excitement … continue reading
Typesafe, provider of the world’s leading Reactive platform and the company behind Play Framework, Akka, and Scala, today announced it is offering commercial support for a new distribution of Apache Spark designed to run on the Mesosphere Datacenter Operating System (DCOS). With Spark on DCOS and enterprise-grade support options from Typesafe, it has never been … continue reading
“Silicon Valley” had a chance to say something important. Faced with a software intellectual property case mirroring the same core concepts as the Google v. Oracle API copyright case looming over the tech industry, the show that’s gained enough street cred for humor and realism both with coders and a general audience positioned itself for … continue reading
“DevOps” is an interesting term. It is a bit like the word “accountability.” Everyone agrees it is important, but it means different things to different people. That, of course, is partly what makes it so popular. If nothing else, the DevOps movement is a call for change, but that change looks different depending on which … continue reading
Oculus Rift is finally making strides. The virtual reality headset that was first announced three years ago will finally be making it into consumers’ hands early next year. The company’s CEO Brendan Iribe introduced the consumer version of the Oculus Rift at the company’s press event yesterday. “The Rift delivers on the promise of consumer … continue reading
Android may appear in one of BlackBerry’s next devices. Reuters reported that sources close to the subject say BlackBerry is considering Android as part of its software and device-management strategy. BlackBerry has been struggling to keep up with Apple and Android in the smartphone market. According to Reuters, the company once dominated the space, but … continue reading
DHE man-in-the-middle protection (Logjam) A vulnerability in the TLS protocol allows a man-in-the-middle attacker to downgrade vulnerable TLS connections using ephemeral Diffie-Hellman key exchange to 512-bit export-grade cryptography. This vulnerability is known as Logjam (CVE-2015-4000). OpenSSL has added protection for TLS clients by rejecting handshakes with DH parameters shorter than 768 bits. This limit will … continue reading
Databricks has announced the general availability of Apache Spark 1.4, including SparkR, a new R API for data scientists. Version 1.4 of the open-source Big Data processing and streaming engine also enhances Spark’s DataFrame API features, Python 3 support, a component upgrade past alpha for Spark’s machine learning pipeline, and new visualization and monitoring capabilities … continue reading
Accusoft, the leading provider of document, content and imaging solutions, today announced the release of Prizm Content Connect v10.2, featuring extensive eDiscovery enhancements that enable customers to strengthen their redaction capabilities and improved document rendering and logging of product issues to enable easier and faster support. Template based signing was also added to bring form … continue reading
DreamFactory Software announced that its market-leading open source REST API services platform is now available as a Docker container, making it easier than ever to install and manage custom deployments of DreamFactory across a wide range of platforms and environments. Docker containers are a simple and efficient way to install DreamFactory: they are inherently cross-platform … continue reading
