Atlassian updates Confluence and Trello to support remote work
Atlassian introduced new updates to Confluence and Trello designed to better support working from home. According to the company, the new updates make important information easier and quicker to access, and improves visibility into the work being done. “Teams around the world were forced into working remotely, but now many organizations are considering a permanent … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Altova low-code debugger, Auth0 and NS1 funding, and Portshift K8SHIELD framework
Altova announced the release of MobileTogether 7.0, a low code app development framework that introduced a new debugger for testing and troubleshooting app behavior during development in addition to numerous tools for defining controls, actions and UI refinements. “Developers who are building highly sophisticated apps and solutions need the ability to troubleshoot throughout the development … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Kotlin 1.4-M3, VS Code version 1.47 released, and new SwaggerHub DevOps features
JetBrains has released the last milestone preview of Kotlin 1.4. Among the standard library changes in 1.4-M3, JVM libraries now come with the module-info descriptor, functional interfaces are added to the standard library, and new collection operations to cover real-life costs were added. The new jlink tool allows users to generate a custom java runtime … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Boomi Blueprint Framework for Data Management, Microsoft to end Windows’ PHP 7.2 support, and Instana enterprise enhancements
Boomi’s Blueprint framework includes leadership guidance, design practice, and implementation practices. “This set of best practices provides companies with the ability to respond to disruptive forces and quickly adapt their digital platform towards desired business vision and outcomes,” Boomi wrote in a post. In addition, leadership guidance provides the Digital Ideation Lab, a Boomi innovation … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Planview acquires AI/ML company Aptage, AWS IoT SiteWise, and Docker teams up with AWS on bringing apps to the cloud
Planview announced the acquisition of Aptage, which focuses on the application of AI/ML to portfolio management and work management. “For Planview, the acquisition of Aptage brings data science and domain expertise in AI/ML. Not only will that accelerate the company’s current roadmap in AI/ML – a growing area of focus for the market and our … continue reading
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Lumos
This week’s featured open-source project is Lumos, a Python library built to compare metrics between two datasets, accounting for population differences and invariant features. Lumos was open sourced this month by Microsoft. In a technical paper that shows the results from a real-world deployment of Lumos in Microsoft RTC applications , the Microsoft team wrote: … continue reading
IBM weighs in on Istio joining Google’s Open Usage Commons
Google yesterday announced the creation of the Open Usage Commons (OUC), a new open source organization focused on trademarks. As part of the launch, Google reveled the open-source service mesh project Istio would be joining the organization. As a result, long-timer partner and founding member of the Istio project IBM has expressed disappointment in the … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Android 11 Beta 2, Instana rolls out granular role-based access control, and React Native 0.63
This release achieves the Platform Stability milestone, which means that Android 11’s APIs and behaviors are finalized. From Beta 2, developers can release compatibility updates with confidence that the platform won’t change, according to Android. Developers can enroll to get Android 11 Beta updates over-the-air for Pixel 2, 3, 3a, and 4 devices. Additional details … continue reading
SD Times news digest: MobileIron’s mobile phishing solution, Apache Flink 1.11.0, and HAProxy 2.2.0 released
MobileIron announced multi-vector mobile phishing protection for iOS and Android devices to help organizations defend against the top cybersecurity threats. The solution offers on-device and cloud-based phishing URL database lookup to detect and remediate phishing attacks across all mobile threat vectors, including text and SMS messages, instant messages, social media and other modes of communication, … continue reading
SUSE to acquire enterprise Kubernetes management solution provider Rancher Labs
Open-source company SUSE has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Rancher Labs. According to SUSE, it wants to use the acquisition to establish the companies as the main open source innovators for Enterprise Linux, Kubernetes, edge computing and AI. “By combining Rancher and SUSE, we not only gain massive engineering resources to further strengthen … continue reading
Fastify 3.0 released with new type definitions and improved TypeScript support
The release of Fastify 3.0 – a Node.js web framework – includes brand new type definitions, new full support of Express middleware, and the refactored request validation. This is the framework’s final release of the third major version. The latest release includes some noticeable breaking changes such as middleware support does not come out-of-the-box with … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Cloud Security Alliance’s pillars of DevSecOps automation, dotData Stream, and Dynatrace announces AI observability for Kubernetes
The Six Pillars of DevSecOps: Automation paper published by the Cloud Security Alliance provides a holistic framework for facilitating security automation within DevSecOps as well as best practices. “It’s vital that today’s DevOps teams be agile, able to address user requirements dynamically, release features incrementally, and deliver at a faster pace than their predecessors and … continue reading
