SD Times January 2021

premium SD Times January 2021

This issue features insights into why low-code will become more prevalent in 2021, a look at collaboration tools, and more about value stream management. … continue reading

SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Workadventure

At a time when organizations such as Microsoft with their Teams feature are creating innovative ways to recreate workspaces, the developers behind the open-source project Work Adventure found a different approach: What if you could recreate a workspace within a 16-bit RPG video game that looks similar to Pokemon games? In this innovative office workspace … continue reading

How Smart Data Hubs power digital transformations

Digital transformation is now vital to business survival, and an increasingly key element of digital transformation is real-time data. Digital integration hubs (DIHs), which are a type of Smart Data Hub, are increasingly being used as high-performance data access layers that provide real-time access to data from across the enterprise to power real-time business processes. … continue reading

Around the industry… predictions for 2021

Nichole Kelly, VP of growth, Windward Consulting Group IT leaders must focus on developing soft skills like compassion, empathy and emotional intelligence when managing teams in a remote infrastructure. Employees are dealing with a vast array of challenges related to the pandemic that require more flexibility and understanding from their leaders. Special considerations should be … continue reading

SD Times news digest: New report finds that Hologram AR is the new trend for of automobile releases, Graphcore raises $222 million in Series E Funding Round to advance AI

A new report found that Hologram AR leads the new trend and new application scenarios of automobile releases. Car makers have shifted to using augmented reality technology to introduce new car models in far greater numbers than before, according to the market research company Flipclutch. In the car-unveiling events online, users logged in to the … continue reading

Secure code training tops 2021 software development agendas

There’s a highly contested debate lingering throughout the software development community that, surprisingly, does not stem from the global pandemic — whether functionality or performance ranks priority one when talking about secure coding. In the rush to meet software development needs, there is a general acceptance that although “secure code perfection” is the goal, achieving … continue reading

SD Times news digest: Microsoft announces SharePoint Workflow transformation to Power Automate, Apple preps developers forStrong Customer Authentication, Prime and Synerzip merge

The new SharePoint Workflow transformation to Power Automate workshop focuses on workflow assessment and migration guidance to Power Automate in a discovery and hands-on learning event.  This follows the announcement of the retirement of SharePoint 2010 workflows earlier this year Microsoft also stated that 2013 Workflows will eventually follow a similar retirement path.  After attending … continue reading

SD Times news digest: Cloudflare acquires Linc, Amazon launches AWS Glue custom connectors, ThreatStack now available for Ruby Gems and NPM

Cloudflare’s acquisition of Linc, the automation platform that helps front-end developers collaborate, will create seamless integration between Pages and Cloudflare Workers, a serverless execution environment. that allows users to create entirely new applications or augment. Linc offers a straightforward path to building end-to-end applications on Pages with both frontend and backend logic in one bundle. … continue reading

SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Micro

Micro is an API backend that allows developers to write code without worrying about managing backend services as well.  Micro’s team believes that developers should be empowered to build software at an accelerated pace without any limitations.  “Too much time is being lost on walking the maze that is the CNCF landscape. Too much time … continue reading

Digital accessibility lawsuits rose after COVID lockdowns

Digital accessibility lawsuits increased by 23% in 2020

This year, a large number of businesses added new stores, websites, and digital content to serve their customers, but accessibility initiatives did not keep up. In 2020 the number of digital accessibility lawsuits increased by 23%, amounting to almost 10 lawsuits everyday, according to a new report from UsableNet, a digital accessibility company. In addition … continue reading

Easing the development burden

Installing and configuring a fully integrated multi-software tool DevSecOps environment can be a long, tenuous burden for many organizations, often taking months from start to finish. Consider, instead, standardizing on a single application delivery platform — a set of integrated development, security, and operations tools — to increase productivity and accelerate installation and configuration of … continue reading

SD Times news digest: GitHub releases study on cloning behaviors, Google for Startups Accelerator: Voice AI program, and Kin + Carta acquires Cascade Data Labs

In the recent study, GitHub compared the different clone options to determine how certain options affect Git performance.  The study found that when focusing on a single repository, the best approach is to do a full clone and then always perform a full fetch into that clone.  Also, calculating a shallow fetch is computationally more … continue reading

SD Times news digest: Apache Kafka 2.7.0, Bash-5.1, and System.Text.Json updates

Apache Kafka 2.7.0 is now available with new features and enhancements. Kafka is a stream-processing software platform. The release makes progress towards  replacing ZooKeeper with KIP-497. According to the team, this will add a new inter-broker API for altering ISR. Other features include the addition of the Core Raft implementation and seven KIPs in active … continue reading

Researchers detailed how a general-purpose network is required for interpreting code

Researchers at MIT found that reading code doesn’t activate the same parts of the brain as language processing, despite the similarities that the two tasks share such as learning new symbols and terms.  While it is more akin to the multiple demand network, which is often used for solving math problems or crossword puzzles, reading … continue reading

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