NGINX is transforming its offerings into a one-stop application development and delivery platform, so teams can build or modernize applications with a collection of DevOps tools and best practices. Today, NGINX launched its new NGINX Application Platform, a suite of products which together, form a solution made up of application delivery, an application server, and policy-driven … continue reading
SmartBear Software is gearing up to release its flagship testing survey tomorrow, and this year’s results paint the picture of the testing industry from end-to-end. The company shared its findings with SD Times in advance, and we dove into the results to learn how the disruption of software development is impacting testers, developers, and operations … continue reading
Coding just got easier. The Google Play team and Girls Who Code are collaborating by launching a series of coding books on Google Play. These books will help young women develop and maintain interest in computer science. The collection includes 13 books, like Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World, and Girls Who … continue reading
Data scientists are no magicians, but they are in high demand. Researchers and analysts in this space recognize the diversity and explosion of Big Data, but the only way enterprises are going to be able to prepare for the future of Big Data is with a data science team capable of working with dirty data, … continue reading
As companies make the move to Agile software development, it’s possible many will run into challenges as they transition from traditional practices. Whether it is regulatory requirements or reasons of data sovereignty, it can be difficult for teams to move quickly when faced with these constraints. A quick solution is hybrid application development or hybrid … continue reading
CloudBees is committed to the Jenkins and DevOps communities, and today at Jenkins World 2017, the company announced new offerings that provide valuable insights and metrics in context between teams, applications and tools to identify ROI, improvements and increase collaboration. One of the new offerings focuses on providing feedback about hidden bottlenecks and pitfalls in Jenkins-based … continue reading
In order to automate data collection from the entire DevOps toolchain, Electric Cloud introduced ElectricFlow 8.0 with new DevOps Insight Analytics. This new solution provides teams with automated data collection and reporting to connect DevOps toolchain metrics and performance. It also provides visibility back into the business value and health or status of software releases. According … continue reading
Gigster wants freelance programmers to earn a Silicon Valley salary, from the comfort of their homes. The four-year-old startup pairs companies looking for software developers in touch with freelance programmers all around the world. The startup just received $20 million in funding from investors like Salesforce’s CEO Marc Benioff, Redpoint Ventures, and basketball star Michael … continue reading
Recoverability is one of the major challenges enterprises face with their cloud infrastructures today. Cohesity and VMware are addressing this problem with a new joint solution, which delivers simple data protection, data center recovery in less than 15 minutes, and a multi-cloud data fabric to compliment the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). The joint solution extends VMware Cloud Foundation with … continue reading
It’s day two of VMworld US, and VMware started it off with an announcement of a collaboration with Pivotal and Google Cloud on the new Pivotal Container Service (PKS). Along with the collaboration, VMware will also see updates to its Digital Workspace platform. PKS is a new product from Pivotal which enables enterprises and service … continue reading
Although Apache Kafka is widely adopted, there are still operational challenges that teams run into when they try to run Kafka at scale. In order to restore balance to Kafka clusters, LinkedIn open sourced and developed Cruise Control, its general-purpose system that continuously monitors clusters and automatically adjusts the resources needed to meet pre-defined performance … continue reading
In order to strengthen its collection of developer tools, IDERA, a provider of database, development and test management tools, will acquire Sencha. Sencha is a web application development platform, and with this acquisition, it will be integrated with Embarcadero, IDERA’s developer tools division. Sencha’s Web Application Development Platform lets companies seamlessly design, develop and test … continue reading
