The team at Google has recently announced that PerfKit Benchmarker (PKB), the open-source benchmarking tool used to measure and compare cloud offerings, now supports testing Dataflow jobs. According to Google, Dataflow is a managed service for executing a wide variety of data processing patterns. Released in 2015, PKB provisions and cleans up resources in the … continue reading
Organizations who are (justifiably) moving from REST APIs to more powerful and flexible GraphQL APIs need to be aware: would-be attackers are watching. Your GraphQL APIs are a prize that could pay out a treasure trove of sensitive data (or serve up other opportunities for bad actors to take advantage of your services for their … continue reading
IBM has announced a new partnership with 20 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to address the cybersecurity skills gap by setting up Cybersecurity Leadership Centers. According to a recent study by IBM, organizations that don’t have sufficient security teams experience $550,000 more in costs related to data breaches compared to companies with sufficiently staffed … continue reading
Microsoft announced new capabilities in its employee experience platform Viva to help empower employees in times of economic uncertainty. The new Viva capabilities will start rolling out to customers in early 2023. “The data makes clear that hybrid work has created a growing disconnect between employees and leaders. They’re at odds about what constitutes productivity, … continue reading
Project Liberty is an open-source project with a goal of creating a new “civic architecture for the digital world that returns the ownership and control of personal data to individuals, embeds ethical values into technology, and expands economic opportunities for web users and developers alike.” In other words, it aims to give users control over … continue reading
The Jakarta EE 10 Platform, Web Profile, and new Core Profile Specifications were released today, introducing new features for building modernized, simplified, and lightweight cloud-native Java applications. “This release is the ‘big one’ that plants Jakarta EE firmly in the modern era of microservices and containers,” said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. … continue reading
To help developers move from learning to applying that knowledge to make their code more secure, Secure Code Warrior today launched Coding Labs, to enable real-time coding in an in-browser IDE. “We found that 40% of developers don’t believe they’re receiving enough hands-on training from their current tools and resources. We’ve set out to fundamentally … continue reading
For all the talk of server and network security, the fact remains that applications are among the main attack vectors leveraged by bad actors. This is so because development teams are focused on delivering new functionality and features as quickly as possible. They are not usually trained in security practices, and often have little desire … continue reading
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang took the stage for a keynote at the company’s GTC conference and gave some exciting updates regarding new technologies from the company. He announced the GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs, which are powered by the company’s new Ada Lovelace architecture. Advancements in Ada include a new Streaming Multiprocessor, an RT core … continue reading
Cockroach Labs announced the general availability of its serverless database that can help teams accelerate their software design cycles. “We envision a world where your data-intensive applications effortlessly and securely serve millions of customers anywhere on the planet, with the exact right capacity for that moment – all enabled by a simple SQL API in … continue reading
Development company Sopheon has announced the launch of three new SaaS products for innovation management that span the ideas, product, and project spectrum. Bundled together as Acclaim, the offerings include Acclaim Ideas, Acclaim Projects, and Acclaim Products. According to Sopheon, Acclaim gives developers in charge of idea generation, product management, or project management more control … continue reading
Fivetran announced the Metadata API for creating data governance automations and data quality workflows. Fivetran’s Metadata API can track data in-flight as it moves through Fivetran-managed pipelines. “Every enterprise knows it must be data-driven, but traditional data governance has been a barrier with manual processes and reactive enforcement of policies. That’s not a scalable approach, … continue reading
Analytics company Imply has announced the second major milestone in Project Shapeshift, which is a 12-month initiative where the company is attempting to solve the challenges developers face when building analytics applications. Imply was founded by the original creators of the real-time database Apache Druid. One achievement included in this milestone is the development of … continue reading
The latest version of Java has been released by Oracle. Java 19 includes a number of updates related to performance, stability, and security. The most significant improvements to the language itself are the ability to nest record patterns and pattern matching for switch expressions, both of which are currently in preview. The record patterns update … continue reading
