As the GitOps trend continues to take hold of the software development community, a group of technology companies are banding together to provide developers with the necessary skills. Amazon, Codefresh, GitHub, Microsoft, and Weaveworks announced the GitOps Working Group. This is an open Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project inside the fluxcd GitHub organization. The … continue reading
The latest version of Microsoft’s programming language TypeScript is now available. TypeScript 4.1 introduced a number of new features, such as template literal types, key remapping in mapped types, and recursive conditional types. String literal types allow developers to model functions which expect a specific set of strings. Template literal strings can be used to … continue reading
Infragistics’ Ignite UI toolkit for Angular 11 includes a complete library of Angular-native UI components, material-based components and over 60 high-performance charts and data grids. The new release includes additions such as updates to all of the Angular grids, export to Excel, accessibility/ARIA, and more across all of the controls in its enterprise-grade toolkit. “We’ve … continue reading
Kubernetes service provider Jetstack is donating its open-source certificate management project to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Cert-manager will join the CNCF as a sandbox project. The solution is designed as an “add-on” to Kubernetes, and automates the management and issuance of TLS certifications. It can be used programmatically by Kubernetes-native apps as well … continue reading
Businesses are quickly moving to NoSQL databases to meet performance and scalability requirements that today’s troves of data demand. The shift from relational database management systems (RDBMS) to NoSQL is becoming increasingly prevalent. “Most applications that we see go to NoSQL are Greenfield, but we’ve also started to see more migrations recently from relational backends … continue reading
The crowdsourcing company Topcoder announced the winners of its 2020 innovation awards, which were designed to recognize customers and individuals who did exceptional work on the Topcoder platform and within the community. The awards spanned six categories: cutting edge, enterprise resiliency, power user, public sector, program of the year, and the Wipro partnership award. And … continue reading
Rollbar wants to shift developers’ focus to continuously improving code, instead of having to continuously fix it. The continuous code improvement platform provider announced two new features designed to reduce the time spent monitoring, investigating and debugging code. The new AI-assisted workflows are automated workflows that help development teams catch and address errors before they … continue reading
IBM has announced that it will be acquiring monitoring company Instana. The company explained the acquisition will help bolster its hybrid cloud and AI strategy. According to IBM, it will now be able to better help companies manage the challenges and complexities of managing application performance across teams and clouds. “With the added responsibility of … continue reading
I was recently hired to do an in-depth analysis of the software testing tool marketplace. By the way, there are more tools in the software testing space than a do-it yourself, home improvement warehouse. Given this opportunity to survey a broad set of software testing tool vendors, it was pretty interesting to look at the … continue reading
Scrum.org has announced updates to the Scrum Framework as it celebrates its 25th anniversary. Updates include simplified language, less prescriptive and emphasis on the Scrum team and its need to be self-managing. “Over the years, the Scrum Guide started getting a bit more prescriptive, yet our goal has always been to retain it as a … continue reading
Apple announced a new program designed to reduce app store commission 15% for small businesses earning up to $1 million per year. The new App Store Small Business Program will benefit the vast majority of developers who sell digital goods and services on the store, providing them with a reduced commission on paid apps and … continue reading
The software reliability company Gremlin announced three major platform updates at the Virtual KubeCon North American 2020 conference this week to ensure users can safely and securely prepare solutions for failure regardless of the Kubernetes platform. The new features are: the ability to isolate its resource attacks into a single container, support for containerd and … continue reading
The Linux Foundation has announced it will now host the Servo web engine. Servo is an open source, high-performance browser engine that is designed for both application and embedded use and is written in the Rust programming language. “The Linux Foundation’s track record for hosting and supporting the world’s most ubiquitous open source technologies makes … continue reading
Kong has announced that its service mesh Kuma has reached its 1.0 release. Kuma helps organizations create service meshes for every application they have running, across multiple clusters and clouds, including Kubernetes and VM-based workloads. The Kuma 1.0 release includes several capabilities that help with multi-zone deployments, such as auto generation of “Zone” resources, locality … continue reading
