Chronosphere’s cloud-native monitoring product reached general availability this week. The product is powered by the open-source metrics engine M3 that the Chronosphere founders worked on while they were at Uber. According to the company, the solution enables customers to retrieve monitoring data produced by cloud-native environments and helps customers control their spending while their data … continue reading
Global systems management, data protection and security software company Quest Software has announced it is acquiring erwin for its data modeling, data governance, and business process modeling solutions. According to Quest, this acquisition will help users to reap the benefits from all of their data as well as drive significant data initiatives. “Data-centric projects are … continue reading
The makers of Nim, a concise and fast programming language that compiles to C, C++, and JavaScript took a look back at their achievements in 2020: two new memory management strategies (ARC and ORC), and the first Nim conference. Nim 1.4 was the latest release of the language in October, which brought a new major … continue reading
GitLab released the findings of it’s bug bounty program that became public two years ago. According to the company, it ranked number six on HackerOne’s 2020 Top Ten Public Bug Bounties program list. GitLab made a number of improvements this year including reducing the time it took for the bounty to be paid out from 90 … continue reading
At a time when organizations such as Microsoft with their Teams feature are creating innovative ways to recreate workspaces, the developers behind the open-source project Work Adventure found a different approach: What if you could recreate a workspace within a 16-bit RPG video game that looks similar to Pokemon games? In this innovative office workspace … continue reading
A new report found that Hologram AR leads the new trend and new application scenarios of automobile releases. Car makers have shifted to using augmented reality technology to introduce new car models in far greater numbers than before, according to the market research company Flipclutch. In the car-unveiling events online, users logged in to the … continue reading
The new SharePoint Workflow transformation to Power Automate workshop focuses on workflow assessment and migration guidance to Power Automate in a discovery and hands-on learning event. This follows the announcement of the retirement of SharePoint 2010 workflows earlier this year Microsoft also stated that 2013 Workflows will eventually follow a similar retirement path. After attending … continue reading
Cloudflare’s acquisition of Linc, the automation platform that helps front-end developers collaborate, will create seamless integration between Pages and Cloudflare Workers, a serverless execution environment. that allows users to create entirely new applications or augment. Linc offers a straightforward path to building end-to-end applications on Pages with both frontend and backend logic in one bundle. … continue reading
In the recent study, GitHub compared the different clone options to determine how certain options affect Git performance. The study found that when focusing on a single repository, the best approach is to do a full clone and then always perform a full fetch into that clone. Also, calculating a shallow fetch is computationally more … continue reading
Researchers at MIT found that reading code doesn’t activate the same parts of the brain as language processing, despite the similarities that the two tasks share such as learning new symbols and terms. While it is more akin to the multiple demand network, which is often used for solving math problems or crossword puzzles, reading … continue reading
The Google Web Vitals services are now included in the Sentry application monitoring solution. It includes agentless frontend performance monitoring for serverless, PHP, Node, and Ruby-based applications. “Customer issues happen at the application level, and that is where developers have the most control,” said Milin Desai, the CEO of Sentry. “That’s why we’re excited to … continue reading
AWS is enabling teams to address application weaknesses with the introduction of the AWS Fault Injection Simulator at is virtual AWS re:Invent 2020 conference this week. The simulator is a chaos engineering tool expected to be generally available in 2021. According to the company, the new offering will come packed with pre-built templates for creating … continue reading
