With its acquisition of continuous application performance testing company BlazeMeter, CA Technologies aims to strengthen its position in continuous testing, testing efficiency, and its DevOps portfolio. BlazeMeter will integrate with CA’s Continuous Delivery solutions to offer CA and BlazeMeter customers solutions that address testing bottlenecks. It will also give customers a more diverse set of … continue reading
Bret Taylor cut his teeth in the workplace at Google. While completing his bachelors and masters degrees at Stanford, he got a job as an intern at the then-fledgling search company, back when the whole company fit into one Mountain View building. And it was there that he co-created Google Maps. As a follow-up, he … continue reading
Google is no stranger to open-source software; the company has released more than 20 million lines of code to the open-source community to date. In an effort to demonstrate further commitment to the open-source community, Google is releasing an open-source report card highlighting its most popular projects and statistics. “Open-source software enables Google to build … continue reading
Progress today announced the availability of Progress DigitalFactory, the only cloud-based digital transformation solution built for developers, IT administrators and marketers to collaborate on and deliver engaging customer experiences that meet the speed of business at a global scale. According to Gartner, “The deepening and widening of digital business initiatives puts CIOs, chief data officers (CDOs) and … continue reading
Android developers can get started with the new release of the developer preview of Android 7.1 Nougat. Developers have access to the SDK and tools right on their devices, and can enroll their devices in the Android Beta Program today. With this preview, developers can test their apps on the new platform or extend it … continue reading
EnterpriseDB (EDB), the Postgres database platform company, today announced that it is now an Advantage-level partner in the Dell EMC Technology Connect Partner Program. The Dell EMC Business Partner Program for Technology Connect Advantage Partners provides validated solutions with Dell EMC platforms and leading third-party applications. Joint EDB-Dell EMC customers can purchase Dell EMC solutions validated … continue reading
Undo, the leading commercial supplier of next-generation software quality tools for Linux and Android developers, today announced it has closed a $3.3 million Series A financing round. The round was led by Cambridge Innovation Capital (CIC), a preferred investor for the University of Cambridge and a Cambridge-based investor in technology companies. The latest round of … continue reading
SmartBear Software, the leader in software quality tools for teams, released a major update to its API readiness platform, Ready! API, focusing on the security of APIs. The release comes at a time when security risks for APIs in particular have become a major issue, as many enterprises continue to move digital assets to the … continue reading
Pluralsight, the global leader in online learning for technology professionals, today announced the release of its notes feature, an in-product tool that allows members to take virtual, time-stamped notes while watching any of the 5,000+ courses in Pluralsight’s technology learning platform. With contextual note-taking, technology professionals can grasp difficult concepts by taking notes in their … continue reading
Onux is still trying to fill gaps in JavaScript with the release of JS++ 0.4.2. JS++ is the company’s safe superset of the programming language designed to address the lack of type safety in JavaScript. The latest release features modules, function overloading, dead code elimination, and new integrations. According to Roger Poon, founder of Onux, … continue reading
Gartner is giving organizations insight into what they can expect next year with its annual Top 10 strategic technology trends of 2017. The predictions are designed to provide organizations with an understanding of the technologies that are emerging and having an impact to society. According to the organization, the trends can be split into three … continue reading
Microsoft is making waves with its artificial intelligence research by developing a piece of technology that recognizes words as well as humans do. According to a team of researchers from the company’s AI and Research division, the company’s speech recognition system has a word error rate of 5.9%, which is about equivalent to a human. … continue reading
