Microsoft is making big changes to .NET this year and next. The next big .NET release after .NET Core 3.0 will be .NET 5. With the .NET 5 release, there will be a single .NET, which can be used to target Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, tvOS, watchOS, WebAssembly, and more. This single .NET platform … continue reading
Organizations that really want to make Agile processes work realize they have to make an investment in people. That was among the findings of the 13th State of Agile Report, produced by Collabnet VersionOne and released today. The top three responses to the question of what has been most valuable in helping organizations scale Agile … continue reading
Microsoft is bringing Linux deeper into the innards of Windows with plans to embed its own open-source kernel into its widely used PC operating system for the first time. A future release of Windows 10 will have an embedded subsystem with the new Linux distribution developed by Microsoft. Plans to include its internally developed kernel … continue reading
Red Hat this morning announced the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, which the company said has been redesigned for the hybrid and multcloud era. In its announcement at the company’s annual Summit, Red Hat cited an IDC report showing that a large majority of respondents already deploy multicloud environments, and that 64 percent … continue reading
James Bach, co-author of the Rapid Software Testing (RST) methodology, recently spoke with SD Times about the practice, what benefits can be derived from it, and how organizations can adopt it for their own use. SD Times: What is Rapid Software Testing? James Bach: Rapid Software Testing is a methodology for the responsible testing of … continue reading
The cloud is front and center at Microsoft’s Build conference this year. Microsoft announced multiple developer tools and new cloud experiences to improve Azure in its competition against the leader in the cloud domain, Amazon. The Azure tools aim to accelerate innovation in AI, MR and IoT from the intelligent cloud to intelligent edge, according … continue reading
DataStax, the provider of an active everywhere hybrid cloud database built on Apache Cassandra, announced that it’s committing new resources to the Cassandra open source project. These include updated training material, bug fixes and documentation for the upcoming Apache Cassandra 4.0 release. It also includes contributions of new features and testing support for Apache Cassandra … continue reading
Serverless computing puts more power in the hands of the developer. Rather than developing an application and sending it off to IT for deployment, developers can deploy a serverless application themselves, without having to wait on IT operations or their fellow developers. But serverless as a term can be kind of vague. When people refer … continue reading
Couchbase released version 2.5 of Couchbase Mobile, a NoSQL data platform for mobile applications. The release simplifies mobile application development through secure embedded local storage and advanced sync capabilities. Couchbase Mobile uses the power of Couchbase Server to bring distributed NoSQL database capabilities to the edge. It also manages and syncs data from any cloud … continue reading
When businesses embrace a “customer first” mentality, they become more reliant on technology than ever before. As these enterprises race to transform themselves into digital companies, the need for constant innovation of customer experience (CX) capabilities through software development comes into focus. For customer experience products and services, the imperative for quality is paramount because … continue reading
I find that I’m writing an awful lot about process these days, and I have figured out why. It’s because, if your company is like one of my old ones, your processes are awful. It’s not that all the processes themselves are awful, though some are truly poorly thought-out. A big part of the process … continue reading
Last week, the team behind the Flow programming language open-sourced the language. Flow is a language for creating complex, multi-platform apps. Flow was created in 2010, and is sometimes referred to as Flow9 in order to avoid confusion with Facebook’s ‘flow’ typechecker, which came out after. According to the Flow team, Flow is easy to … continue reading
