At Strata Data Conference in San Francisco this week, data company Panzura announced an Elasticsearch-as-a-service solution for its Vizion.ai platform. Vizion.ai Elasticsearch service will allow users to achieve the benefits of a serverless model for deploying Elasticstacks, without having to deal with challenges such as cluster size, scale limitations, or management. “Setting up the infrastructure … continue reading
Almost a decade ago, Albert Savoia walked on stage at the Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC) dressed as the Grim Reaper. With The Doors song ‘This is the End’ playing in the background, Savoia famously declared testing dead. Dead were the days of developers delivering crappy code, then waiting for QA to test it and … continue reading
Though Pagedraw closed its doors as a business at the beginning of this month, the web-based React UI building utility lives on as an open-source project. The project was designed to provide an “effortless” way to design a UI, down to supporting mock-up import from similar applications Figma and Sketch. After designing or importing a … continue reading
After investing time and money developing an application, it can seem counterintuitive to start from scratch to update it instead of just working to improve what you already have. But sometimes a clean slate is the best option. Spotify recently updated its web app and it did just that. When doing so, it had to … continue reading
PyCharm 2019.1 is now available. The latest release includes a keymap for Sublime Text, improved data class inheritance in Python, the ability to debug large collections, and more. New features only available in the Professional Edition include direct Jupyter Notebook editing, improved HTML and CSS quick documentation, a new JavaScript debug console, and more. Kong … continue reading
Barton Friedland used to work selling Apple computers in the early 1980s, at the very beginning of the desktop revolution, but he struggled to make sales to lawyers. The writer Ian Leslie tells the story: One day, he was with a lawyer in his office, when he had an epiphany. “I was telling him about … continue reading
Modern enterprises need to be agile because customers, requirements, the opportunity of data and the capability of technology all provide an endless array of opportunity. Opportunity is everywhere, but everything is not an opportunity. Agile approaches such as Scrum have become more and more popular in response. In a recent survey 58% of respondents said … continue reading
Cloudera has announced two new solutions to make it easier to get data from IoT devices. Cloudera Flow Management (CFM) is a highly scalable data ingestion and management solution. Cloudera Edge Management (CEM) is an edge management solution for IoT and Streaming use cases. It is comprised of two components: MiNiFi, an edge agent and … continue reading
One of the many struggles that development teams face is trying to figure out what other developers were thinking when they wrote a certain piece of code. Codestream is a tool that aims to eliminate that issue and make it easier for developers to collaborate and share knowledge. Codestream is an interface that sits alongside … continue reading
Version 5 of Apple’s Swift runtime officially released yesterday, introducing improvements to application size and performance and a number of language and library changes based on suggestions from the Swift Evolution process. Swift 5 has been pushed to all Apple operating systems, macOS, iOS, tvOS and watchOS. Ted Kremenek, manager of the Languages and Runtimes … continue reading
Geospatial data is being used more and more these days as telemetry and sensor technology improves. With almost every device able to emit a location signal, there is an increasing amount of geospatial data available. Elastic has introduced a new solution as part of Elastic Stack 6.7 that will provide more ways to visualize and … continue reading
GrapeCity has released ComponentOne 2019v1. This release includes new features for the .NET UI toolkit, such as a control panel, DataFilter, improved data slicers, BulletGraphs, and more. It also adds support for Visual Studio 2019 across all products. The company also updated the pricing structure. According to GrapeCity, some features will be moved to ComponentOne … continue reading
