Neo4j announced Neo4j AuraTM, a fully-managed database as a service. Neo4j Aura enables developers, architects and data scientists to deploy, scale and power connected data applications in the cloud. According to the company, it requires no administration, and features simple pricing, always-on availability, on-demand scaling, guaranteed data durability, built in authentication and end-to-end data encryption. … continue reading
The Apache Software Foundation announced that the machine learning library Apache SINGA is now a top-level project. The project, which started out at the National University of Singapore, trains large-scale machine learning models over a cluster of machines. The developers behind the project are currently working on SINGA-lite for deep learning on edge devices with … continue reading
JetBrains is introducing Grazie, a spell, grammar and style checker designed for IntelliJ IDEA. According to the company, programming is not all about code. Code contains things like string literals, comments, Javadocs, commit messages and more that require a natural language understanding — so an IDE should do more than check the code, JetBrains explained. … continue reading
Somewhere along the Agile transformation companies hit roadblocks, start cutting corners, and they start just going through the motions. What they end up with is a fake Agile approach. They say they are going Agile, but they are not. “They are sort of like flamenco dancers who wear flamenco costumes and talk about flamenco but … continue reading
Ionic has announced that its open source Capacitor project now has Angular Schematics. This means that it can be added to Angular projects. Capacitor is a bridge for cross-platform web apps. According to Ionic, “Capacitor provides a consistent, web-focused set of APIs that enable an app to stay as close to web-standards as possible, while … continue reading
Wind River has announced the latest version of its simulation tool, Wind River Simics. Simics allows for the simulation of systems of any size, allowing developers to finetune their CI/CD practices and develop a DevOps culture, the company explained. According to Wind River, this latest release includes performance improvements, easier model definition, new target consoles, … continue reading
A fundamental tenet of scaling Agile is linking the team-level activities with the business strategy, and the way to do that is through value stream management or mapping (VSM), according to Flint Brenton, CEO of the enterprise Agile solution provider CollabNet VersionOne. VSM takes fragmented tools and processes and puts them in one place so … continue reading
GitHub Sponsors is now out of beta for developers that have bank accounts in one of 30 countries. The number is still growing and developers without bank accounts there can sign up on the waitlist to join the beta in their country. “In the coming months, we’ll continue to roll out general availability to countries … continue reading
Despite what you may have heard, Agile is not dead. A couple years ago, Dave Thomas, one of the creators of the Agile manifesto, declared that Agile was dead, but it wasn’t the idea of Agile he was talking about. It was the word Agile itself. “The word ‘agile’ has been subverted to the point … continue reading
Project management tool provider ZenHub is making it easier for teams to follow their roadmaps with the launch of a new solution called ZenHub Roadmaps. The tool is a road mapping solution that integrates with GitHub. According to Aaron Upright, co-founder and head of strategic accounts at ZenHub, one of the reasons roadmaps fail is … continue reading
Continuous intelligence company Sumo Logic announced that it acquired JASK Labs, a provider of cloud-native autonomous security operations center (ASOC) software. Sumo Logic plans to expand its cloud-native security intelligence solution to supersede legacy SIEM technology. Ninety-three percent of security professionals think traditional SIEM solutions are ineffective for the cloud, according to the company. The … continue reading
Plumbr: Plumbr is a modern monitoring solution designed to be used in microservice-ready environments. Using Plumbr, engineering teams can govern microservice application quality by using data from web application performance monitoring. Plumbr unifies the data from infrastructure, applications, and clients to expose the experience of a user. This makes it possible to discover, verify, fix … continue reading
