We’ve all heard the old saying “A picture is worth a thousand words.” It’s trite, but it’s true. An image can cut through the crap and get everyone on the same page in an instant. In the software development world, examples carry the same power. That’s why I, like so many others, am a big … continue reading
ActiveState is delivering Python 2 support beyond end-of-life with the release of the latest ActivePython for Enterprises. According to the Python Package Index, developers are continuing to work with Python 2 resources months after the Python Software Foundation officially ended support. “Some of these customers are currently unable to migrate for a variety of market … continue reading
I go to conferences on both sides of the Atlantic, and there’s a slightly hilarious thing that happens at morning caffeine break. Someone from the UK will walk up to the hot drink station and register bafflement, because there’s not hot water to make tea. Also our tea bags are pretty substandard, and there might … continue reading
ConnectALL announced the release of 2.10 with new features and enhancements designed to extend its value stream management (VSM) offerings. The latest release includes a new value stream empowerment tool: the Value Stream Visualizer, which enables users to generate a complete map of their value stream, as well as extended lean metrics, and a new … continue reading
A new machine learning startup has been launched by the creators of Uber’s Michelangelo machine learning platform. Tecton.ai is a data platform for machine learning that lets data scientists transform raw data into production-ready features. The company is founded by CEO Mike Del Balso, CTO Kevin Stumf, and VP of Engineering Jeremy Hermann. The three … continue reading
To further its commitment to open-source, IBM is releasing Elyra. Elyra is a set of open-source extensions for AI for Jupyter Notebooks, a browser-based IDE that allows developers to write and share code online. The initial release offers a Notebooks Pipelines visual editor, the ability to run notebooks in batches, hybrid runtime support, Python script … continue reading
Couchbase Autonomous Operator for Kubernetes 2.0 introduces enterprise-grade capabilities including security, resource management, monitoring, high-availability, and cross-cloud compatibility. This enables self-service access to the database while standardizing development, test, pre-production, and production environment. It also reduces operational complexity up to 95% by implementing the operational best practices that most efficiently deploy and manage Couchbase, according … continue reading
Python 2 has officially reached its end of life. The Python programming language team just announced Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2. Going forward, Python 2 will no longer receive updates, bug reports, fixes or changes. The Python Software Foundation recommends those using Python 2 switch to Python 3 as soon as possible. … continue reading
D2iQ has announced the release of Dispatch 1.1. Dispatch is a cloud-native CI/CD solution for enterprise-grade GitOps. This version is designed to accelerate the CI/CD pipeline, enhance developer agility and improve collaboration in building pipelines. The solution’s multi-language declarative pipeline model enables developers to leverage open source and CNCF projects, such as Tekton and ArgoCD, … continue reading
While everyone in the world is separated from their friends, families, and co-workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, Red Hat wants to remind us about the importance of staying connected and collaborating. The company kicked off its first virtual Red Hat Summit this week to talk about its open hybrid cloud vision, products and partnerships. “We … continue reading
D2 Emerge, publisher of Software Development Times magazine and ITOps Times, today announced it is launching Virtual VSM DevCon, a one-day training event for teams interested in creating value streams in their organization to gain efficiencies and eliminate waste from their processes. The event will be held on July 22, 2020. Since January 2019, when SD … continue reading
Amazon’s Augmented Artificial Intelligence (A21) platform is now generally available. It is a fully managed service designed to make it easy for developers to add human review to machine learning predictions so that they can review low confidence predictions made by AI. According to Amazon, the solution can be used to help the machine extract … continue reading
