Android 12 has been pushed to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), and will make its way to supported Pixel devices in the next few weeks. Devices from manufacturers such as Samsung, OnePlus, Oppo, Realme, Tecno, Vivo, and Xiaomi will receive the latest OS later this year. According to the Android development team, the Android … continue reading
VMware recently announced the release of Tanzu Community Edition (TCE), a freely available distribution of VMware Tanzu. Tanzu Community Edition is an easy to manage Kubernetes platform that can be installed and configured in minutes across multiple environments. Environments compatible with TCE include local workstations as well as public clouds. The platform automates end-to-end application … continue reading
When it comes to design, UX professionals are acutely aware of the importance of empathy. Understanding the pain points for the end user is key to creating the products that will serve their needs. Increased empathy ensures that a true view of those pain points is attained and there are many tools and best practices … continue reading
Amazon announced the availability of AWS Cloud Control API, a set of common APIs designed to allow developers to manage their AWS and third-party services with ease. This standard set of APIs helps users Create, Read, Update, Delete and List (CRUDL) resources across hundreds of AWS Services and dozens of third-party services. AWS Cloud Control … continue reading
The edge is growing, and cloud providers know it. That’s why they’re creating more tools to help with embedded programming. According to IDC’s research, edge computing is growing, with 73% of companies in 2021 saying that computing is a strategic initiative for them and they are already making investments to adopt it. Last year, especially, … continue reading
With technology’s ongoing expansion into the cloud and the edge, even as applications themselves grow in complexity, the needs of organizations that rely on software to power their businesses evolve and grow as well. As we’ve been reporting in SD Times all year, security and governance are two areas in which a lot of time … continue reading
PostgreSQL Global Development Group announced the release of PostgreSQL 14, bringing a variety of new features, such as connection concurrency, high-write workloads, query parallelism, and logical replication. In addition, PostgreSQL 14 also includes enhancements to JSON conveniences and multiranges, performance improvements for heavy workloads, enhancements for distributed workloads, administration observability, SQL performance, conformance, and convenience, … continue reading
Just as big data transformed the way organizations approach intelligence and cloud transformed the way they think about infrastructure, DevOps is fundamentally altering the way organizations think about software development. In a DevOps world, software development is no longer a balancing act between speed and quality but a quest for both, as forward-thinking development teams … continue reading
During the COVID-9 crisis, people got a much better sense of the challenges facing enterprise computing when workers — used to being within the company’s firewall — were suddenly telecommuting en masse, working on remote teams and learning new applications. Test and development teams have been painfully aware of this kind of transformation for decades … continue reading
The October issue of SD Times is now available. This issue features a look at tools developers have for building applications at the edge, how to create healthy hybrid teams, and how to offer constructive criticism in an empathetic way. … continue reading
We asked these tool providers to share more information on how their solutions help companies manage their APIs. Their responses are below. Eric Madariaga, chief marketing officer at CData APIs are mere table stakes in the world of integration. They offer the promise of connectivity but require IT and developer resources to integrate, discouraging widespread … continue reading
With data being increasingly stuck behind different services, API management is becoming more and more of a data integration challenge. Currently most companies view API management as an access problem, but Avadhoot Kulkarni, product manager at Progress, recommends they shift their mindset and view it as a data problem instead. According to Kulkarni, APIs are … continue reading
The following is a listing of tool providers in the API management space, along with a brief description of their offerings. CData: Connect, Integrate, and Automate your enterprise data. At CData, we simplify connectivity between all of the applications and data sources that power business operations, making it easier to unlock the strategic value of … continue reading
The open-source project of this week is Fig, which adds VSCode-style autocomplete to one’s existing terminal. The project pops up subcommands, options, and contextually relevant arguments and works with iTerm, the native MacOS Terminal app; Hyper; and the integrated terminal in VSCode. Completion specs are defined in a declarative schema that specifies ‘subcommands,’ ‘options’ and … continue reading
