Israeli DevSecOps startup Spectral today announced $6.2 million in funding for its developer-first code security scanner. The seed round was led by Amiti and MizMaa, according to the company’s announcement. “Scanning tools today take long minutes or even hours to run in a given pipeline,” said Dotan Nahum, co-founder and CEO of Spectral. “Developers just … continue reading
A new report has revealed that a majority of developers (88%) believe that error monitoring isn’t living up to expectations. The 2021 State of Software Code report was done by continuous integration company Rollbar and almost 1,000 developers in the U.S. were surveyed. Rollbar’s research indicates that fixing bugs and errors is the number one … continue reading
Nylas Workflows are pre-built composable templates that help developers quickly create end-to-end workflow automations across a broad range of applications. Also, Workflows extend the Nylas platform’s automation capabilities from email, calendar, and contacts to integrate with business applications such as Slack and Microsoft Teams. Additional details on the new platform are available here. OutSystems raises … continue reading
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announced that Apache Gobblin, the open-source distributed Big Data integration framework, has reached top-level project status. According to the foundation, achieving top-level status means that the project graduated from the Apache Incubator and has demonstrated that it’s community and products have been well-governed under the ASF’s meritocratic process and principles. … continue reading
Regardless of the application that needs testing, companies need compliant test data to adequately test applications. For example, such data might take the form of a user ID and password, a person’s name, a phone number, a credit card number or a Social Security number. The challenge for companies is to figure out where to … continue reading
Matillion announced that it raised $100 million in Series D funding that it will help organizations innovate with data to unlock insights. Matillion offers a cloud-native platform that helps organizations transform raw data into analytics-ready data by providing low-code/no-code solutions. “Matillion accelerates the value of today’s cloud data platforms, ensuring that data teams can work … continue reading
Project management solution startups LinearB and Clubhouse are partnering to provide software development teams insights into their efforts so they can continue to improve project delivery, the companies announced today. The technical integration of the company’s offerings “will offer dev teams detailed project visibility and team-based metrics by correlating data across projects, code, Git activity … continue reading
Leave it to Finland to lead the way for self-driving car technology. While the company has no pure native auto manufacturers, it does have a thriving B2B market for parts and systems sold to automakers in other countries. We have yet to develop reliable, fully functional self-driving cars here in America, though we are getting … continue reading
Google has announced it is increasing its support for the Python Software Foundation (PSF). The company is now a Visionary Sponsor and will work to improve the language, ecosystem and community. “Python is critically important to both Google Cloud and our customers. It serves as a popular runtime for many of our hosted services, from … continue reading
Microsoft has announced the release candidate for TypeScript 4.2 New features coming in the next release of the programming language include: Leading/middle rest elements in tuple types Smarter type alias preservation Stricter checks for the in operator Abstract construct signatures Understanding project structure with –explainFiles Improved uncalled function checks in logical expressions Relaxed rules between … continue reading
This week’s featured open-source project is Apache Arrow Flight, a RPC framework for high-performance data services based on Arrow data. The project was co-developed by daka lake engine company Dremio, which recently added new support, and is built on top of gRPC and the IPC format. According to the team, Flight works by defining a … continue reading
Google wants to help make building lightweight compiler plugins in Kotlin easier as well as address some of the challenges developers face with the programming language. For instance, developers have struggled with the language’s lack of a native annotation processing system. To address these issues, the company has announced the alpha version of Kotlin Symbol … continue reading
Appito has announced it has acquired Agile portfolio and work management solution provider Targetprocess. The acquisition is expected to build upon Appito’s technology business management solutions and enable users to make smarter decisions about technology investments. “COVID-19 has forced every organization to be digital first – enterprises are moving from waterfall projects to product delivery … continue reading
The move AI 2.0 is being driven by five areas of AI advancement, according to a new report from analyst firm Forrester. “Though you’ve likely never heard of them, these AI 2.0 advances are already entering commercial products, and forward-looking enterprises need to start preparing if they want to reap their competitive advantages,” the report … continue reading
