Mendix, a leading provider of application Platform-as-a-Service (aPaaS), today announced a new release, making it even easier for enterprises to develop and deploy modern applications in support of digital innovation and transformation initiatives. The Mendix Digital Experience (DX) release includes extensive pre-crafted UI templates; OData support; enhancements to the online developer community; and an expanded … continue reading
MariaDB has announced the Summer 2015 release of MariaDB Enterprise, adding support for Docker containers and new DevOps tooling capabilities centered around optimized MariaDB Enterprise server binaries, as well as a cookbook of recipes for Chef, the open-source IT automation and configuration-management framework. The latest enterprise product release of MariaDB’s open-source MySQL database fork offers … continue reading
Syncfusion, Inc., the developer solutions company of choice, announced today the release of Essential Studio 2015 Volume 2. The release includes dozens of new controls and features, particularly for web and mobile development for JavaScript, Xamarin, and Windows Phone platforms. “Essential Studio 2015 Volume 2 provides new components and features to help enterprise developers build … continue reading
French developer Kévin Dunglas has released the 1.0.0 beta version of API Platform, an open-source “API-first” PHP framework for creating interoperable single-page applications, native mobile apps, and websites. It is built on Symfony reusable PHP components. With API Platform, developers can first build a hypermedia REST API application before integrating and leveraging other popular client-side development … continue reading
More and more tech companies are piling on the “Occupy Flash” movement as Adobe’s Flash Player continues to be beset by publicly known security vulnerabilities. Mark Schmidt, Mozilla’s head of Firefox support, tweeted that the company has officially blocked Flash in all versions of Mozilla Firefox. He clarified that the block will only remain in … continue reading
Appcito, a cloud application delivery solution provider, today announced their Cloud Application Front-End Proxy (CAFE) is now available for Microsoft Azure. Appcito’s CAFE is a purpose-built application delivery controller (ADC) for the cloud and completes the technology stack to provide L4-7 services in cloud environments. As part of the CAFE offering, Appcito’s proxy supports – … continue reading
Dell Software today announced the availability of its first-ever AppAssure Replication Target VM for Azure, giving AppAssure customers a simple, cost-effective method for replicating backups to the cloud. The new offering simplifies backup retention, archiving and recovery by creating a VM replication target for AppAssure backups in the Azure Cloud. Offered in the Azure Marketplace … continue reading
Liferay, Inc., which makes enterprise, open source portals, today announced a partnership with digital performance software company Dynatrace to introduce a performance monitoring workspace designed for Liferay Portal. Together, the companies have designed customizable dashboards and instrumentation to help ensure consistently high quality customer experiences across all digital channels. With the Dynatrace FastPack for Liferay … continue reading
Read just about any article on DevOps and you’ll be sure to find liberal sprinklings of terms like “culture” and “collaboration” and “establishing strong feedback loops.” Go deeper and you’ll probably come across some head-scratching stuff like “anti-fragile,” “systems thinking,” and my own personal favorite: “learning from failure.” There’s nothing especially earth-shattering about learning from … continue reading
Building a modern Web API has become the newest challenge for developer relations. In the five years since it began building APIs, MasterCard has learned a number of lessons, many of which it has included in its Open API Declaration, released today. The Declaration is filled with promises from MasterCard to developers using its APIs. … continue reading
With the pressures to get software to market faster, Parasoft wants to help developers detect and fix risks as fast as possible. The company just announced the latest release of its Development Testing Platform (DTP), designed to ensure quality doesn’t get lost in the life cycle. “Not only must software get out the door fast, … continue reading
CrowdStrike is expanding its efforts to help organizations detect, prevent and respond to cyber attacks with its latest round of funding. The cybersecurity company announced a US$100 million Series C financing round led by Google Capital, bringing the company’s total funding to $156 million. “The question you may be asking is why is Google Capital … continue reading
