It’s never really tackled in Star Wars: are Astromech Droids open source? While we may never get to see R2-D2’s internal code, a French company called Blue Frog Robotics fired up an IndieGoGo campaign yesterday that seeks to build an open-source companion robot. Blue Frog Robotics, a company founded last year by French roboticist Rodolphe … continue reading
Mozilla is trying to address the latest trends in the software development industry by re-examining how the company builds Firefox. “Firefox is built on Web technologies, but we could do a much better job of capitalizing on that,” Dave Camp, director of engineering for Firefox, wrote in an email to Firefox developers. According to Camp, … continue reading
Software developers are still a long way from deploying Hadoop distributions en masse in enterprise organizations. In a recent poll, SD Times asked developers to indicate what stage they’re currently at in the Hadoop deployment process. Forty percent of the 131 respondents answered that the Big Data elephant in the room is still hiding under … continue reading
Microsoft has announced plans to cut up to 7,800 additional jobs over the next several months, primarily focused on its mobile phone business. In an email to employees, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella detailed the restructuring of the company’s phone business, which will incur an impairment charge of approximately US$7.6 billion related to Microsoft’s acquired Nokia Devices … continue reading
SEATTLE, WA–Today, APImetrics launched the API Health Report, the first in a series of periodic reports that examine the performance of major public APIs. This inaugural issue looks specifically at the reliability and responsiveness of APIs in a cross-cloud environment, comparing three of the most popular cloud hosting platforms: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and … continue reading
New York – DigitalOcean, the simple cloud infrastructure provider built for developers, today announced the close of a $83 million Series B funding round led by Access Industries, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz. Since launching in 2012, DigitalOcean has become the world’s second largest cloud infrastructure provider for developers building websites and applications. The company … continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO–AppDynamics, a leading application intelligence company, today announced that its Application Intelligence Platform now supports customer applications running an expanded suite of services from Amazon Web Services (AWS). This expanded support provides deeper insight and control as applications migrate to and scale on the AWS Cloud. AppDynamics offers the same performance monitoring, management, automated … continue reading
NEW YORK—CA Technologies today announced it has completed the acquisition of Rally Software Development Corp., a leading provider of Agile development software and services. The close of this acquisition represents a significant milestone in CA’s strategy, broadening its solution set and capabilities to better serve customers driving digital transformation in their organizations to compete in … continue reading
Today HashiCorp, a leader in the DevOps marketplace, released Atlas to the general public after a successful beta program. Atlas unites HashiCorp’s popular open source tools for development and infrastructure management to create a version control system for infrastructure. Teams of operators use Atlas to responsibly deploy applications and make changes to infrastructure through a … continue reading
For years IT organizations have been criticized for being too slow, too restrictive and unresponsive to the business. Analysts and vendors have pushed IT to transform itself as a whole, and encouraged the adoption of technologies that enable agility. But a new perspective on IT is gaining steam. Instead of changing the face of IT, … continue reading
A new beta of Python 3.5 arrived today. Beta 4 of the next revision of the popular programming language adds only four bug fixes, while 3.5 itself is a few months from completion. The primary changes between 3.4 and 3.5 are the inclusion of a new matrix multiplication operator and co-routines with Await and Async … continue reading
Microsoft is getting ready to unveil Team Foundation Server 2015, but it’s going to take a little longer than expected. The company originally announced the application lifecycle management solution would be released on July 20, but after careful consideration Microsoft decided to delay the release date. “In the end, getting quality right is more important … continue reading
