The application-first digital economy and future of work slowly taking shape over the past few years got a jolt of adrenaline in March of 2020. Before the pandemic, 50 percent of companies polled by the World Economic Forum expected that software, automation and AI would lead to some significant reskilling of their workforce as well … continue reading
Building software, systems, and platforms is complex. With myriad choices and various paradigms and technologies to adopt, engineers have unrelenting (and critical) decisions to sift through. An increasingly large part of the learning curve for any developer is navigating the organizational tooling and processes to get their ideas into the hands of users, and much … continue reading
Microsoft announced the general availability release of PowerShell Crescendo, which is a framework that lets developers create PowerShell cmdlets, or lightweight commands, for common command-line tools. The tool is a development accelerator that enables users to “rapidly build PowerShell cmdlets that leverage existing command-line tools,” according to Microsoft. It amplifies the command-line experience of the … continue reading
Quickwit is an open-source search engine on object storage with subsecond latency for large datasets. The project made by the authors of the Rust search engine library tantivy recently raised $2.6 million in a seed round co-led by FirstMark and firstminute with many more participants. Quickwit 0.2 was launched in January with new features such … continue reading
The Android development team has announced a new feature to help reduce app storage needs. Apps can now be archived to restore up to 60% of app storage. When an app is archived, only parts of it are removed, as opposed to fully uninstalling the app where it would be removed entirely. When a user … continue reading
LeanIX (https://www.leanix.net/), the platform to plan and manage continuous transformation across the enterprise, today announced its membership in the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment. LeanIX is published on CSA’s Security, Trust, Assurance, and Risk (STAR) Registry, a publicly accessible … continue reading
CData announced CData Connect Cloud which enables owners of cloud applications access to real-time data and unified connection. The cloud data connectivity platform provides a centralized location for organizations to manage various integration points and connections to real-time data from an ecosystem of data sources. “Organizations rely on the cloud more than ever before, but … continue reading
Palo Alto Networks, provider of an enterprise cybersecurity platform, announced Prisma Cloud Supply Chain Security. This release works to provide a complete view of where potential vulnerabilities or misconfigurations exist in a software supply chain, enabling organizations to trace and fix them easily. With Supply Chain Security, Prisma Cloud provides users with full lifecycle visibility … continue reading
Value stream management companies Tasktop and Broadcom have announced a new partnership to enable companies to better measure their business value. Tasktop’s technology will power Broadcom’s ValueOps Connectors, which will synchronize data between software development tools and Broadcom’s ValueOps Value Stream Management Solution. According to the companies, this solution will provide companies with the ability … continue reading
CircleCI, the leading continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, today announced the acquisition of Ponicode, an innovative AI-powered testing platform. The companies did not disclose the financial terms of the deal. CircleCI has been at the forefront of software development since 2011, offering a world-class CI/CD platform to improve developer productivity and increase business outcomes … continue reading
When we talk about progress, typically, digital advancement is at the forefront of the conversation. We want everything better, faster, more convenient, more powerful, and we want to do it for less money, time, and risk. For the most part, these “impossible” objectives are eventually met; it might take several years and multiple versions (and … continue reading
Micro Focus has unveiled a new platform to help companies manage their value streams. ValueEdge is a modular value stream management (VSM) platform that integrates with a company’s existing set of tools. “The Micro Focus ValueEdge Platform enables organizations to conceptualize and visualize the creation of value through the critical phases of a software product … continue reading
