In the last few years, we’ve watched DevOps transition beyond a buzzword to become widely accepted by organizations large and small, global and startup. As we take stock of all the happened in 2018, it’s the perfect time to reflect on where we see things going in the new year. Everyone is seeking systems unicorns … continue reading
Atomist has released Software Delivery Machine (SDM) 1.2.0. The release was mostly focused on fixing bugs, the company explained. New features include an improved config command in the CLI, LazyProjectLoader for preventing eager cloning of Git projects, a convenience method for implementing ExecuteGoal instances, and more. The release is also backwards compatible and can be … continue reading
Data company SocialCops’ solution for reading and writing data from cloud and local storage is now open-source. The project, flyio, provides an interface for interacting with data storage directly from R. Currently flyio supports AWS S3 and Google Cloud Storage, and can read or write tables, rasters, shapefiles, and R objects to a data source … continue reading
Android 9 Pie was initially released to Google devices on August 6, 2018, and now OnePlus’ 5 and 5T devices are the latest to begin receiving the update. The OTA (over-the-air) release will be incremental, with a small percentage of users getting the update today and a wider rollout beginning in a few days, the … continue reading
KPIs (key performance indicators) are crucial to advancing DevOps in a world where business competitiveness depends on our ability to measure how well we are producing compelling, innovative software. But “KPI” is a term that gets thrown around haphazardly at times, and can get overlooked as simply a buzzword. This lack of focus was apparent … continue reading
Even with a stronger focus on security this year, most software is still riddled with security vulnerabilities. According to Veracode’s State of Software Security (SOSS) report, 87.5 percent of Java applications, 92 percent of C++ applications, and 85.7 percent of .NET application contain at least one vulnerability. In addition, over 13 percent of applications contain … continue reading
In 2017, Google founded its People + AI Research (PAIR) team in order to conduct research and develop new technology that would facilitate productive partnerships between humans and artificial intelligence. Over the course of the last year, PAIR has worked to create a design library, talk more about AI across different disciplines, and create open-source … continue reading
React Native, a framework for building cross-platform applications, has been in the news lately for the right reasons. It is backed by a renowned team at Facebook and the whole JavaScript community. The framework aimed to reach record-breaking heights with the slogan “Learn Once, Write Everywhere.” Once Facebook made React Native open source, there were … continue reading
Open-source companies are tired of being pushed around by cloud providers and technology giants. As a result, these companies are taking measures into their own hands with the development of new software licenses for their projects. For instance, earlier this year a group of businesses and developers came together under the Commons Clause, a initiative … continue reading
Kong has announced that Kong 1.0 is now generally available. Kong is a Microservice API Gateway for managing, securing, and connecting hybrid and cloud-native technologies. The release includes features and fixes that will make Kong faster, more flexible, and resilient. With this release, the company has made a commitment to making Kong backwards compatible. Kong … continue reading
Qt has announced a new version for Python. Qt for Python will enable developers to easily visualize data tied to their Python project and gain access to Qt’s support services and community. Highlights of Qt for Python include PySide 2, Qt GUI creation, environment familiarity, PyPI, and VFX Reference Platform Integration. Facebook open-sources DeepFocus Facebook … continue reading
Earlier this week, Microsoft announced the open-source release of its streaming data analysis and query tool Trill, a single-node engine library that can be incorporated into .NET applications to process complex queries in real-time or offline data sets. In a blog post about the release, principal software engineer James Terwilliger explained that Trill has been … continue reading
