ActiveState announced that it added more than 50,000 package versions covering the most popular Python 2 and 3 packages to its ActiveState platform. “In order to ensure our customers can automatically build all Python packages, even those that contain C code, we’re designing systems to vet the code and metadata for every package in PyPI. … continue reading
Amazon announced Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels, which enables customers to build specialized ML-based image analysis capabilities that detect objects and scenes integral to their specific use case. “Instead of having to train a model from scratch, which requires specialized machine learning expertise and millions of high-quality labeled images, customers can now use Amazon Rekognition Custom … continue reading
The Contract for the Web is officially coming to life. The contract was created by web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee as a global plan of action to make the online world safer and accessible by anyone. “The power of the web to transform people’s lives, enrich society and reduce inequality is one of the defining … continue reading
Google announced Mendel Linux 4.0 for the Coral Dev Board and SoM, which offers updates to improve performance and stability. The Mendel Linux 4.0 release is based on Debian 10 Buster and includes upgraded GStreamer pipelines and support for Python 3.7, OpenCV, and OpenCL. In addition, users can use the Dev Board’s GPU to convert … continue reading
In an effort to speed up enterprise application development, Delphix has announced the latest release of the Delphix Dynamic Data Platform (DDDP). Version 6.0 is designed to eliminate test data wait times and accelerate application release cadence. The company also announced the release of its DataOps Marketplace, which aims to help data teams integrate all … continue reading
GitLab 12.5 was released this week with EKS cluster creation and an environments dashboard. According to the company, EKS cluster is crucial in today’s multi-cloud world. GitLab’s new environments dashboard provides a single point of access to the status of environments in all groups and projects. In addition, Crossplane has been integrated and deployable as … continue reading
This week’s open-source project of the week is Sourcetrail, a cross-platform source explorer that helps users get productive on unfamiliar source code. It uses static analysis on C, C++, Java and Python source code and lets users navigate the collected information within a user interface that interactively combines graph visualization and code display. With the … continue reading
Confluent announced the release of ksqlDB, an event streaming database designed to bring stream processing to the mainstream. According to Confluent, ksqlDB unifies multiple systems involved in stream processing into a single solution for building event streaming applications. “KsqlDB is a major evolution of KSQL to make it easy for any organization to harness event … continue reading
Fugue announced a free tier for Fugue Developer, which provides automation tools to visualize cloud infrastructure, identify misconfiguration risks, and demonstrate compliance “The cloud upended traditional IT security, forcing hard tradeoffs between agility and security,” said Phillip Merrick, CEO of Fugue. “Fugue Developer puts cloud security in the hands of the software developers building and … continue reading
Facebook announced that Visual Studio Code is now the default development environment used at the company. It’s also teaming up with Microsoft to enhance their remote development extensions to do remote development at scale. “Given the scale of development at Facebook, supporting the efficiency and productivity of our engineers is key. Constant work is being … continue reading
Postman announced an API data visualization feature that allows users to easily turn API Data into charts and graphs. “If you use APIs like me as part of your daily job, you will soon fall in love with the fact that you can now make sense of API data without leaving Postman,” wrote Kaustav Das … continue reading
Microsoft announced it is updating the privacy provisions in the Microsoft Online Services Terms (OST) commercial cloud contracts amid ongoing investigations by the European Union (EU). The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) launched an investigation into Microsoft earlier this year to see whether the contractual agreements concluded between Microsoft and the EU institutions were fully … continue reading
