Atlassian is saying goodbye to its communication platform Stride. It has put a lot of effort in building up Stride over the past year, but is now entering into a strategic partnership with Slack. As part of the partnership, both companies will focus on building better integrations and more completely define the modern workplace experience. … continue reading
In order to simplify continuous integration, Google Cloud Build is being added to GitHub. Cloud Build enables developers to make fast, consistent, and reliable builds across all languages. The integration makes it easy to set up CI through Google Cloud Build, and then automate builds and tests as part of a GitHub workflow. GitHub is … continue reading
This week’s open-source project of the week wants to help developers build reactive, concurrent and distributed apps. Akka is a toolkit for message-driven Java and Scala apps. According to the team, with the container market expected to reach $2.7 billion by 2020, developers need a programming model for distributed computing. Distributed computing is the technology … continue reading
Infragistics has announced the release of Indigo.Design, which is a cloud-based platform for visual design, UX prototyping, code generation, and app development. According to the company, the solution facilitates collaboration between developers, UX architects, product managers, and application developers throughout the software design and development process, while allowing each individual to use the tools they … continue reading
Google announced new solutions for machine learning at its Google Cloud Next 2018 conference happening in San Francisco this week. The company revealed BigQuery ML, AIY Edge TPU Dev Board, and AIY Edge TPU Accelerator. BigQuery ML is a new capability inside the Google BigQuery solution, which provides interactive analysis of large datasets in order … continue reading
JetBrains has released a major update to IntelliJ IDEA with a number of new features. IntelliJ IDEA is the company’s IDE for Java. IntelliJ IDEA 2018.2 adds support for Java 11, which has not been released yet. “The next version of Java is due out in September, and IntelliJ IDEA 2018.2 is ready for it. … continue reading
The Angular team has announced a minor release to its web development framework for desktop and mobile apps. Angular 6.1 is a drop-in replacement for 6.0 and comes with new features and bug fixes. According to the Angular team, this is the last minor 6.x release planned and developers can start to expect 7.0 betas … continue reading
Google has released the final preview update of Android P. This is the last preview milestone before the official launch of the Android P operating system. Beta 4 includes a release candidate build that has the final system behaviors and the official Android P APIs. It also includes everything developers need to finish testing before … continue reading
Apps are a permanent feature in the life of an enterprise employee. In an age where work no longer ends at the office door, apps are the tool that keep people wired into their business no matter where—or what device—they dial in from. What this means for the developer is two-fold: first, that there’s a … continue reading
A newly released report found that there are five practices that elevate the most successful DevOps initiatives above others. Forrester released the findings of its Tricentis-commissioned “The Definitive Software Quality Metrics For Agile+DevOps: Measuring The Risk Of A Release Candidate” report earlier this week These practices are: An emphasis on testing, with proper spending and … continue reading
Google announced a new open-source project based on the Go programming language to help developers build portable cloud apps. The company introduced Go Cloud at its Google Cloud Next conference happening in San Francisco this week. “Over the years, we’ve found that developers love Go for cloud development because of its efficiency, productivity, built-in concurrency, … continue reading
Google is giving development teams the ability to build apps without worrying about managing servers with new serverless features announced at its Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco this week. The company announced the general availability of Cloud Functions, new App Engine runtimes and the integration of Cloud Firestore with GCP services. “Every business … continue reading
