Google has announced the release of TensorFlow Serving, a flexible, high-performance and open-source serving system for machine-learning models. The solution was designed for production environments and optimized for TensorFlow, the company’s machine-learning system. “Machine learning powers many Google product features: from speech recognition in the Google app to Smart Reply in Inbox to search in … continue reading
The Altova MissionKit 2016 R2 developer tools and software introduces some new features for developers who are data-oriented and working with XML data. On the XML side, Altova has incorporated an XQuery debugger. According to product manager David McGahey, it has been difficult to write complex XQuery queries and debug them. It has also been … continue reading
Rogue Wave Software wants to help developers find defects and resolve them faster. The company has announced the release of Klocwork 2016 with continuous static code analysis. According to the company, a static code-analysis tool that supports Continuous Integration (CI) will be able to rapidly detect common mistakes and anti-patterns, and provide a healthier build. … continue reading
Google Cloud Debugger lets developers inspect the state of an application at any code location without stopping or slowing it down. It now has an enhanced UI, expanded language support, and debugging from more places, according to the Google Cloud Platform blog. This can be viewed in the application state without adding logging statements, and … continue reading
Codeship, provider of hosted continuous integration solutions that empower software build and test automation, today announced the general availability (GA) release of “Jet,” a new layer to their platform that provides Docker support. The product already supports hundreds of paying customers. Existing Docker customers can use Jet to create applications that integrate seamlessly with Docker … continue reading
SmartBear Software, the leader in software quality tools for the connected world, has released updates to Ready! API which strengthen its leadership in API testing and virtualization for enterprise software teams. Ready! API 1.6 includes support for Docker containers in load testing, added support for managing large-scale automated API test libraries and security certificates, and … continue reading
Wikibon, a community formed to help solve technology problems, has released what it says is the first-ever Spark forecast that shows how Spark is changing the industry. “Our report is the first to show how Spark is remaking the marketplace, presenting not just numbers of users, but also data about what vendors are building and … continue reading
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is putting cybersecurity on its radar. It has announced that it is launching a new working group designed to standardize Web authentication and provide a more secure and flexible solution to password-based logins. “Every other week you see news of a password leak or data leak from another major … continue reading
Personal privacy vs. national security. That’s the issue at stake today as the FBI has asked Apple to hack into the phone of one of the shooters in the San Bernardino, Calif., terror attack in December. On the face of it, the stance by Apple’s Tim Cook seems genuine enough. People have come to trust … continue reading
The database revolution happened a few years back, when NoSQL options stormed the world. Today, however, a second wave of innovation in data storage has been unleashed in the form of Apache Arrow. Arrow builds a standard for columnar in-memory analytics, and will provide a unified data structure, algorithms and cross-language bindings. The overall goal … continue reading
Tim Cook released a message to Apple customers yesterday, saying the United States government has demanded that Apple take an unprecedented step that threatens the security of Apple customers. Cook wrote that the company opposes this order, which has implications far beyond the legal case at hand. He said that for years Apple has used … continue reading
Sencha wants to help developers and test automation engineers easily and rapidly test Ext JS applications for multiple devices and cross-browser compatibility. The company has announced the general availability of Sencha Test, a new product designed with easy-to-use unit- and functional-testing features. “This is a comprehensive solution that is available for the team to collaborate … continue reading
