This week’s highlighted open-source project is etcd, which is a key-value store that provides a reliable way to store data needing to be accessed by a distributed system. Key features of the project include its simple interface, key-value storage, the ability to watch specific keys or directories for changes, optional SSL client certificate authentication, optional … continue reading
Microsoft has announced that Visual Studio 2019 now comes with a fully integrated GitHub account experience. Starting with Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8, developers can add GitHub and GitHub Enterprise accounts directly from Visual Studio. According to Microsoft, this new functionality makes accessing GitHub accounts as easy as accessing Microsoft accounts, which will make it … continue reading
The latest version of Microsoft’s programming language TypeScript is now available. TypeScript 4.1 introduced a number of new features, such as template literal types, key remapping in mapped types, and recursive conditional types. String literal types allow developers to model functions which expect a specific set of strings. Template literal strings can be used to … continue reading
IBM has announced that it will be acquiring monitoring company Instana. The company explained the acquisition will help bolster its hybrid cloud and AI strategy. According to IBM, it will now be able to better help companies manage the challenges and complexities of managing application performance across teams and clouds. “With the added responsibility of … continue reading
Kong has announced that its service mesh Kuma has reached its 1.0 release. Kuma helps organizations create service meshes for every application they have running, across multiple clusters and clouds, including Kubernetes and VM-based workloads. The Kuma 1.0 release includes several capabilities that help with multi-zone deployments, such as auto generation of “Zone” resources, locality … continue reading
Codefresh is hoping to solve some of the limitations of GitOps with its new GitOps 2.0 initiative. As part of the initiative, Codefresh will be providing several tools intended to improve the experience and speed of CI/CD. GitOps is a software deployment model for cloud-native applications that has issues currently needing to be addressed, such … continue reading
The PyTorch team is making a number of updates to support MLflow usage and provide support for mobile and ARM64 architecture. The team held its first PyTorch Developer Day yesterday to provide PyTorch developers with technical talks, project deep dives, and a networking event with the core PyTorch team and developers. Highlights from the event … continue reading
Microsoft has announced the release of .NET 5.0, which is the first release of the platform that combines .NET with .NET Framework. .NET 5.0 is a major release, and is also the fifth release since becoming an open-source project. “Last year, we shared a vision of a unified .NET stack and ecosystem. The value to … continue reading
Developers took a step back from the industry’s obsession with speed, and focused more on quality this year, according to a newly released report. The 2020 State of Software Delivery survey from CircleCI showed that developers’ ability to “slow down” in 2020 resulted in a boost of productivity for businesses. The survey looked at data … continue reading
In many companies, digital transformation has been happening gradually over the years, often as a result of necessity from some uncontrollable force. But because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the needed speed of change has never been faster. The pandemic has impacted nearly all businesses, forcing them to shift from the office to their homes, learn … continue reading
Tim Jones, founder & CEO of app screenshot generator LaunchMatic, shared a story from when he served as growth product manager at Keepsafe Software. He and his team were struggling to create a holistic customer experience report that could be presented to the executive team. “We were receiving tens of thousands of support emails, app … continue reading
For many companies, digital transformation has been happening slowly over the years. But this year, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced companies to transform faster than before, or risk getting left behind. Brick-and-mortar stores needed to create digital storefronts, restaurants needed to invest more heavily into amping up their online ordering operations to support delivery and … continue reading
