Organizations understand the importance of code in today’s business landscape. We rely on software to power our daily lives — the global market is projected to grow to nearly $1.6 trillion within the next decade. Developers are feeling the pressure from this, with the increased push to write more code every day. However, this does … continue reading
Anyone testing web applications ought to be aware of a new browser automation protocol called WebDriver BiDi. This new protocol is an evolution of the original WebDriver standard and it incorporates some of the benefits of various other automation tools, most notably, adding bidirectional communication. “It’s a brand new protocol, and it’s taking all the … continue reading
The PostgreSQL database, YugabyteDB, has been updated to a distributed architecture to make it a better option for companies building cloud-native applications. According to Yugabyte, while PostgreSQL has many benefits, it does have limited resilience and scalability, which is not good for applications that need to stay online through outages, scale quickly to keep up … continue reading
Datorios, a leading developer of data observability and data quality technology for real-time business operations, has launched the Datorios Lineage Analyzer for Apache Flink®. Announced at Current 2024 underway in Austin, TX, Lineage Analyzer provides streaming data infrastructure operators with deeper, more complete insights into the performance of data processing pipelines that drive real-time business operations and real-time AI. Data lineage … continue reading
Swift 6, now generally available, is a major release of the programming language and expands it to more platforms and domains beyond just Apple operating systems, which is what it was originally designed for. It now offers strict concurrency checking, which helps developers find data races at compile time, which could lead to an app … continue reading
Back in May, OpenAI announced that it was forming a new Safety and Security Committee (SSC) to evaluate its current processes and safeguards and make recommendations for changes to make. When announced, the company said the SSC would do evaluations for 90 days and then present its findings to the board. Now that the process … continue reading
Percona, a global leader in enterprise-grade open source database software and services, today announced that its groundbreaking new database platform, Percona Everest, is now generally available to the public. Percona Everest is an open source, cloud-native database platform designed to deliver similar core capabilities and conveniences provided by database-as-a-service (DBaaS) offerings but without the burden … continue reading
Confluent, Inc. (NASDAQ:CFLT), the data streaming pioneer, introduced new capabilities to Confluent Cloud to make stream processing and data streaming more accessible and secure. Confluent’s new support of Table API makes Apache Flink® available to Java and Python developers; Confluent’s private networking for Flink provides enterprise-level protection for use cases with sensitive data; Confluent Extension … continue reading
Oracle has announced the release of Java 23, which contains a number of new language and library features, mostly in preview stages. According to Chad Arimura, VP of developer relations at Oracle, the fact that most of the JDK Enhancement Proposals (JEPs) in this release are previews of what’s to come rather than stable features … continue reading
Open source maintainers do significantly more security and maintenance work than unpaid maintainers, yet 60% of all maintainers remain unpaid, according to the 2024 State of Open Maintainer report from Tidelift. “The health and security of our global software infrastructure depends on open source maintainers,” Donald Fischer, co-founder and CEO, Tidelift, said in an announcement … continue reading
The Linux Foundation had a lot of news to share during the first day of its Open Source Summit in Vienna, Austria. Several new subgroups have been formed within the organization to support popular technologies and practices. Here are some highlights from Day 1: Announcing the Developer Relations Foundation The organization announced plans to form … continue reading
Google is announcing several new Chrome features aimed at better protecting users as they browse the web. Safety Check — a tool that checks for compromised passwords, Chrome updates, and other potential security issues in the browser — has been updated to run automatically in the background so that it can be more proactive in … continue reading
