Node.js 17 was launched with new features such as OpenSSL 3 support, Node.js version in stack traces, V8 JavaScript Engine Version 9.5, new promises APIs, and updated platform support. The previous version, Node.js 16 has received LTS support and is still recommended for production deployments, while Node.js 17 is for testing and providing feedback on … continue reading
JetBrains launched Qodana, a universal code quality platform for continuous integration that enables developers to do smart checks and edits from within in their JetBrains IDE. Qodana for JVM is based on the company’s Java IDE, IntelliJ IDEA, and allows developers to perform static analysis of Java codebases. The company also released an early-access program for … continue reading
Today, IBM released the Open Source Cloud Guide which highlights various use cases that are important in hybrid cloud environments and features the important open-source projects in those areas. The guide offers an overview of the concept or use case, an explanation of a traditional solution to achieve it, key open-source projects, and a highlight … continue reading
Threatmapper is a cloud-native security observability platform that scans, maps, and ranks vulnerabilities from development through production across serverless, Kubernetes, container, and multi-cloud environments. This Wednesday, it was open-sourced by Deepfence under the Apache 2.0 license. “By open sourcing ThreatMapper, we aim to help developers, DevOps, DevSecOps, and security teams identify and prioritize threats quickly … continue reading
IBM Research has created AGENT, a benchmark for evaluating an AI model’s core psychological reasoning ability, or common sense, to help users build and test AI models that reason similar to how humans do. “We’re making progress toward building AI agents that can infer mental states, predict future actions, and even work with human partners. … continue reading
Appsmith, the open-source project that helps developers build internal tools, announced that it received $10.5 million in funding plus new real-time commenting and Git-sync features. The new real-time comment feature enables users to communicate directly, provide feedback, and collaborate while working on internal tools. Also, the Git-sync feature, currently in testing with beta users, gives … continue reading
Today the developer security company Snyk introduced new product innovations, DigitalOcean and HashiCorp partnerships, and launched Snyk Learn as part of SnykCon 2021. Snyk Code, which offers a dev-first approach to static application security testing tooling just received support for C#, Ruby, PHP and Go added to Java, Javascript, and Python. Also, Snyk Open Source … continue reading
The edge is growing, and cloud providers know it. That’s why they’re creating more tools to help with embedded programming. According to IDC’s research, edge computing is growing, with 73% of companies in 2021 saying that computing is a strategic initiative for them and they are already making investments to adopt it. Last year, especially, … continue reading
The open-source project of this week is Fig, which adds VSCode-style autocomplete to one’s existing terminal. The project pops up subcommands, options, and contextually relevant arguments and works with iTerm, the native MacOS Terminal app; Hyper; and the integrated terminal in VSCode. Completion specs are defined in a declarative schema that specifies ‘subcommands,’ ‘options’ and … continue reading
Nearly half of global software development executives are looking to automation tools to save valuable staff time, according to the results of a survey from Tempo Software. The team time management and productivity-enhancing solution provider surveyed 800 software development executives across North America and Europe to understand how and why development teams track time. The … continue reading
The rapid adoption of the cloud has led companies to increasingly secure open-source components in modern software. The newly released 12th Building Security In Maturity Model (BSIMM12) report found a 61% increase in software security groups’ identification and management of open source over the past two years. The report was created by Synopsys, a company … continue reading
IBM and Linux Foundation AI (LFAI) launched Machine Learning eXchange (MLX) as a one stop shop for trusted data and AI artifacts in open source and open governance. MLX provides a collection of free, open source, state-of-the-art deep learning models for common application domains. The curated list includes deployable models that can be run as … continue reading
