In 1998, NASA launched the Mars Climate Orbiter, a $300 million-plus spacecraft that traveled more than 400 million miles to the red planet. Even with speeds exceeding 3 miles per second, the journey took almost 9.5 months. Upon reaching its destination, the spacecraft fired its rockets to ease into a Mars orbit. Radio transmission was … continue reading
Visual Studio Code 1.53 includes JavaScript debugging with support for conditional exception breakpoints and Node.js worker_threads, as well as Notebook UX updates, a markdown preview image auto update, and more. Users can now start multiple concurrent debug sessions and each subsequent debug session will have a number at the end of the name so it … continue reading
The Workload Analyzer for Presto was open sourced this week by Varada, a data lake query acceleration innovator that aims to help data engineers gain holistic visibility into the performance of Presto clusters. Varada originally built the tool because it leverages the distributed SQL query engine Presto in its query acceleration engine Varada Data Platform. … continue reading
User experience has always been an important factor in the success of an application, but in an increasingly digital-only world, its importance is only increasing. If all goes perfectly, the user doesn’t think about what’s going on behind the scenes. When a button does what it’s supposed to when it’s clicked on, the user goes … continue reading
Reshift Security added support for JavaScript alongside its current Application Security Platform’s Java scanning capability and the company said it will add C#, C/C++ and Python scanning later in 2021. Redshift integrates into modern software development tools, processes, and workflows and identifies code vulnerabilities as software is being created. It utilizes a Datadog scanning engine … continue reading
Atlassian announced the general availability of Cloud Enterprise, a new cloud offering that features enterprise-grade scalability, security, and governance controls for Jira Software, Confluence, and Jira Service Management. Users can activate unlimited instances so that teams can tailor instances to their needs and they can also access Atlassian cloud products on any device. “This means … continue reading
As CloudBees embarks on its next phase of its DevOps journey, it will have a new captain steering the ship. The company has named Stephen DeWitt as its new CEO. DeWitt is a known technology executive who has more recently served on the Silicon Valley Executive Network, was chief strategy officer at Automation Anywhere and … continue reading
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced that the big data analysis library Apache DataSketches is now a top-level project. Becoming a top-level project indicates that DataSketches’ community has been well-governed under the ASF’s processes and principles. “We are excited to be part of the ASF,” said Lee Rhodes, vice president of Apache DataSketches. “We … continue reading
The Rust systems programming language is still in its infancy, having only released the first stable version of the language in 2015, but that hasn’t stopped it from rising to the top of developer charts. Last year, it broke onto the TIOBE Index Top 20 list of the most popular programming languages for the first … continue reading
MongoDB has announced a new fully managed service that syncs data between the modern Realm mobile database and MongoDB Atlas, which allows organizations to quickly build responsive applications for their customers and remote workforces. “For developers who aspire to build these best-in-class experiences on mobile, Realm Sync can be transformative in reducing the amount of … continue reading
Microsoft is providing more insight into its quantum computing efforts with the public preview of Azure Quantum. The newly announced solution is a full-stack, public cloud ecosystem for quantum solutions designed to give developers, researchers, systems integrators, and customers access to diverse quantum software and hardware solutions. “The transition to Public Preview of Azure Quantum … continue reading
CData Software is a leader in data access and connectivity solutions. It specializes in the development of data drivers and data access technologies for real-time access to online or on-premise applications, databases and web APIs. The company is focused on bringing data connectivity capabilities natively into tools organizations already use. It also features ETL/ELT solutions, … continue reading
