The data management company Datadobi has announced StorageMAP 7.0, the latest version of its unstructured data management platform. “StorageMAP 7.0 is revolutionizing the way businesses and government organizations handle their unstructured data, transforming it into a powerhouse of strategic advantage,” said Carl D’Halluin, CTO of Datadobi. StorageMAP 7.0 introduces two new analytics features: Custom Dashboards … continue reading
The Android development team has released Android 15 Beta 3 and also announced that Android 15 has now reached Platform Stability. This means that developer APIs and app-facing behaviors for the release are final and developers can now review them and integrate changes into their apps. “Android 15 continues our work to build a platform … continue reading
The user-friendly graphic design tool Canva is launching Connect APIs, which will allow developers to more tightly integrate Canva with other platforms or data sources, such as Slack or Salesforce. This news comes near the one year anniversary of the Canva Developer Platform, which allows developers to build apps for Canva. The Connect API portfolio … continue reading
Companies who follow ethical AI practices when developing their AI offerings may gain a competitive advantage from doing so. According to Twilio’s State of Personalization Report, 89% of survey respondents believe that ethical use of AI is a potential business advantage. Another recent Twilio survey found that 49% said they were more likely to trust … continue reading
Writing code is mentally intensive work, and just like if someone were working a physically demanding job and their body felt exhausted afterwards, mental work can be exhausting mentally. Many knowledge workers report experiencing “cognitive fatigue” after a number of hours, after which point their ability to do tasks significantly drops. While most workers work … continue reading
NVIDIA has announced a new solution, NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud Sensor RTX, that can simulate physical sensors so that developers can work on software for autonomous machines, such as vehicles, humanoids, industrial manipulators, mobile robots and more, in test environments. The new offering enables developers to test sensor perception and other related AI software in a … continue reading
Are your developers on PagerDuty? That’s the core question, and for most teams the answer is emphatically “yes.” This is a huge change from a few years ago when, unless you did not have DevOps or SRE teams, the answer was a resounding “no.” So, what’s changed? A long-term trend is happening across large and … continue reading
Unity Catalog is an open source governance catalog for data and AI, developed by Databricks and open sourced earlier this week at the company’s Data + AI Summit. Companies can use it to govern structured and unstructured data, and machine learning models, notebooks, dashboards, and files. It offers interoperability with any data format and compute … continue reading
The days where engineers only take orders from higher ups and complete the tasks they are told to do may be over. In today’s modern development world, software engineers are having a much more involved role in business strategy. According to Jellyfish’s 2024 State of Engineering Management report, 90% of respondents said their engineering teams … continue reading
The Rust Foundation has announced the launch of a new sub-group dedicated to use of the Rust language in safety-critical software, which it defines as “systems whose failure can impact human life or cause severe environmental or property harm.” The Safety-Critical Rust Consortium was formed by a number of organizations working together alongside the Rust … continue reading
Microsoft has announced that the .NET MAUI extension for Visual Studio Code is now generally available, allowing developers to now build cross-platform apps using .NET MAUI within their editor. Microsoft created .NET MAUI in 2022 to be a replacement for Xamarin, which reached end-of-life last month. A number of new features were also announced alongside … continue reading
There’s really but one topic that most of our industry is talking about – artificial intelligence. They talk about how it will remove menial, repetitive tasks to free up developers to work on higher value projects. They talk about LLMs, and model training, and GenAI, and trust. Our view from the cheap seats is seeing … continue reading
The Linux Foundation Europe has announced the launch of Open Mobile Hub (OMH), a new framework for cross-platform mobile development. A main effort of the project will be to develop a unified codebase that allows applications to be built once and then deployed across different mobile operating systems. The project was formed by five mobile development … continue reading
Gradle has announced a new reporting feature in its developer productivity platform Develocity (previously called Gradle Enterprise). The new dashboard can provide developers quicker insights than previously accessible in the platform, and it’s now easier to navigate. Develocity Reporting and Visualization provides information such as the number of projects using each supported build tool, the … continue reading
