The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit advancing professional open source management for mass collaboration, today announced the Community Data License Agreement (CDLA) family of open data agreements. In an era of expansive and often underused data, the CDLA licenses are an effort to define a licensing framework to support collaborative communities built around curating and sharing “open” data. Inspired by … continue reading
Customer training is a critical, but frequently overlooked business driver for software companies. As the industry has increasingly moved from a perpetual license model to subscription services, securing renewals has become just as important as winning new business. This trend has driven increased demand for customer-facing training programs that keep customers engaged and ensure customers … continue reading
Instana, the leader in APM solutions for containers and microservices, today at Dockercon Europe showcased the company’s next-generation Application Performance Management (APM) solution that automatically monitors and manages today’s dynamic microservice applications running in containers. Designed from its inception to address the needs of monitoring today’s modern dynamic application environments, Instana is the first APM provider to … continue reading
GitHub announced the launch of four new developer apps on the GitHub Marketplace this week, designed for code security, monitoring and review. The first of these new releases is AccessLint, which reviews changes to your codebase for accessibility issues and comments on them. The detection is guided by WCAG 2.0, which helps determine compliance with … continue reading
With great technology comes great risks. As new technology continues to emerge in this digital day and age, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute (SEI) is taking a deeper look on the impact they will have. The institute has released its 2017 Emerging Technology Domains Risk report detailing future threats and vulnerabilities. “To support the … continue reading
Cisco has announced their intent to acquire Perspica in an effort to support and accelerate their AppDynamics vision, which Cisco purchased earlier this year. The company hopes that the addition of Perspica will allow customers to take advantage of more machine learning capabilities in order to analyze large amounts of data. “With the addition of … continue reading
Facebook has announced the open source release of their RacerD unsynchronized memory access — or data race — detector for Java applications following its successful implementation internally. RaceD is based off of the company’s open source static analysis tool, Infer. According to Facebook, this newest publicly available piece of Infer’s static analysis platform has caught more … continue reading
Mozilla is teaming up with Microsoft, Google, W3C, Samsung and other industry leaders as part of a joint effort to “make web development a little easier” by bringing documentation for multiple browsers to their MDN Web Docs educational platform. The project will be led by a newly formed Product Advisory Board for MDN that will … continue reading
MongoDB has announced the pricing for their initial public offering (IPO) of 8,000,000 shares of its Class A common stock. The shares are priced at $24 per share and began trading today on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol “MDB.” “It certainly is an exciting day. We’re very proud to be a public company, … continue reading
Samsung wants to make things smarter and the world more connected with new strategies, software and services announced at its Samsung Developer Conference this week. The company announced SmartThings Cloud, Bixby 2.0, new ARTIK secure IoT modules, and a new vision for an open and connected IoT experience. “At Samsung, we’re constantly innovating to deliver … continue reading
DeepMind is introducing the latest version of its computer program AlphaGo. AlphaGo was the first artificial intelligence to defeat a world champion Go player, and the latest version, AlphaGo Zero, is a more powerful version of that, according to the team. While AlphaGo learned by training on thousands of human games to learn to play Go, … continue reading
A new report has revealed successful DevOps implementations are reliant on whether or not companies have a well thought out plan and a clear understanding of available financial and human resources, as well as potential constraints. The study, conducted by KMS Technology, found that IT professionals are extremely satisfied by their decision to switch to … continue reading
