Contrast Security has announced a new sponsorship program to support open source developers. Under the new Open Source Software Sponsorship Program, developers working on open source projects will be financially supported. According to the company, this will help accelerate time-to-market of those projects as well. Contrast Security explained that while open-source software has many benefits, … continue reading
EnterpriseDB (EDB), the enterprise Postgres acceleration company, today unveiled EDB Tools and Extensions Release for PostgreSQL 15. This release is intended to simplify the process enterprises undergo to deploy Postgres as their enterprise database standard. With this, enterprises are enabled to build new modern applications using the latest version of PostgreSQL 15.1. Highlights of this … continue reading
The automated testing company, Code Intelligence, today announced that its open-source Command-Line Interface tool, CI Fuzz CLI, now enables Java developers to include fuzz testing in their current JUnit setup. With this, Java developers can locate functional bugs as well as security vulnerabilities at scale. According to the company, CI Fuzz CLI leverages genetic and … continue reading
AWS re:Invent kicked off today with many new releases in the analytics, AI, compute, database, and more spaces. The event will last through December 1st. AWS Glue 4.0 released The new version of the scalable serverless tool built to accelerate the development and execution of data integration and ETL workloads received updated engines, support for … continue reading
Meta is yet again being fined for violating privacy laws in the EU. Earlier this year in September it was fined USD $400 million by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission for mishandling children’s data, and last September they were fined USD $267 million by Irish data authorities for violation in the messaging service WhatsApp. Now, the … continue reading
The shift to a developer-centric vision of infrastructure that started about 15 years ago offered users frequent updates and a way to simplify API-centric automation. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) became the standard method for software developers to describe and deploy cloud infrastructure. While on the surface, having more freedom sounds like a nearly utopian scenario … continue reading
Enterprise technology provides the foundation for business operations, so why shouldn’t enterprise architects play a crucial role in corporate decision-making? Unfortunately, many business leaders don’t appreciate the role of the enterprise architect. You can explain to executives the strategic business functions enterprise architects provide, such as managing physical and organizational structures, data stores, workflows, applications, … continue reading
The release candidate for the latest version of the Linux kernel was announced last month, and one of the highlights in the release notes for Linux 6.1 is the inclusion of the initial infrastructure for adding Rust as a language. Rust has been growing steadily in popularity through the years, and though according to the … continue reading
In a study of its development teams, Meta has noticed a strong correlation of developer satisfaction dipping whenever diff review times are slow based on several metrics at the company. Diff reviews refer to any individual set of changes made to the codebase. Diff reviews which can catch bugs, teach best practices, and ensure high … continue reading
Kangas is an open-source tool provided by Comet, provider of an MLOps platform for machine learning teams. According to Comet, the tool is intended to help teams explore, analyze, and visualize large-scale multimedia data. Kangas offers users a Python API for logging large tables of data as well as a visual interface for performing complicated … continue reading
CompTIA, provider of vendor-neutral IT certifications, today announced the Tech Job Posting Optimizer, optimize.comptia.org, in order to help employers expand their pipelines and seek out overlooked or untapped talent. The free, web-based platform offers a range of tech job templates and data tools intended to optimize postings for skills, qualifications, and inclusivity oriented to the … continue reading
Google has been attempting to provide better ways to protect user privacy while also still providing advertisers with ways to serve relevant content to users. Its solution to reducing third-party tracking is the Privacy Sandbox. Earlier this year, it announced it was bringing Privacy Sandbox to Android and since then it has released a few … continue reading
Atlassian today announced updates to its Open DevOps solution within Jira Software designed to bring better communication across teams and more visibility into the software development life cycle. Open DevOps was designed to help organizations deal with the ever-growing number of tools their teams use by bringing into a central location that allows them to … continue reading
OutSystems is expanding its low-code platform with capabilities for cloud-native development in the new OutSystems Developer Cloud (ODC). ODC combines an architecture based on Kubernetes, Linux containers, microservices, and AWS native cloud services with CI/CD, enterprise-grade security, and the productivity of low-code. It utilizes AI-augmented development through AI Code Mentor, which helps contribute to productivity … continue reading
