Microsoft’s Visual Studio Online now Visual Studio Codespaces

Microsoft has revealed it is renaming Visual Studio Online to Visual Studio Codespaces. The company found developers were using Visual Studio Online as much more than “just an editor in the browser,” so it decided to rename the product to better align with its value. “Do you want a great experience working on your long-term … continue reading

SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Insomnia Designer

Insomnia Designer is Kong’s recently open sourced collaborative design editor for APIs that aims to make it easier for developers and DevOps teams to create and edit API specifications.  The software works natively with Insomnia’s testing capabilities to accelerate the development, performance, and stability of REST and GraphQL services.  “The need for stable, high-performing APIs … continue reading

premium SD Times May 2020

The latest issue of SD Times is now available. This issue tackles the development manager’s dilemma…should they still code or not? Additionally, we take a deep look at APM, AIOps and observability; explore low-code development; and look at the increasing serverless capabilities that are pushing the architecture to market maturity. … continue reading

premium Specification by Example: Looking back… and ahead

We’ve all heard the old saying “A picture is worth a thousand words.” It’s trite, but it’s true. An image can cut through the crap and get everyone on the same page in an instant. In the software development world, examples carry the same power. That’s why I, like so many others, am a big … continue reading

SD Times news digest: ActiveState’s Python 2 support, DeepCode’s bug bounty contest and Cloud Foundry’s tutorial hub

ActiveState is delivering Python 2 support beyond end-of-life with the release of the latest ActivePython for Enterprises.  According to the Python Package Index, developers are continuing to work with Python 2 resources months after the Python Software Foundation officially ended support. “Some of these customers are currently unable to migrate for a variety of market … continue reading

Developer relations in a coronavirus world: The same, but different

I go to conferences on both sides of the Atlantic, and there’s a slightly hilarious thing that happens at morning caffeine break. Someone from the UK will walk up to the hot drink station and register bafflement, because there’s not hot water to make tea. Also our tea bags are pretty substandard, and there might … continue reading

ConnectALL extends value stream offerings with new release and website

ConnectALL announced the release of 2.10 with new features and enhancements designed to extend its value stream management (VSM) offerings. The latest release includes a new value stream empowerment tool: the Value Stream Visualizer, which enables users to generate a complete map of their value stream, as well as extended lean metrics, and a new … continue reading

Tecton.ai emerges from stealth to solve machine learning pipeline challenges

A new machine learning startup has been launched by the creators of Uber’s Michelangelo machine learning platform. Tecton.ai is a data platform for machine learning that lets data scientists transform raw data into production-ready features. The company is founded by CEO Mike Del Balso, CTO Kevin Stumf, and VP of Engineering Jeremy Hermann. The three … continue reading

IBM announces Elyra extension for Jupyter Notebooks

To further its commitment to open-source, IBM is releasing Elyra. Elyra is a set of open-source extensions for AI for Jupyter Notebooks, a browser-based IDE that allows developers to write and share code online.  The initial release offers a Notebooks Pipelines visual editor, the ability to run notebooks in batches, hybrid runtime support, Python script … continue reading

SD Times news digest: Couchbase Autonomous Operator for Kubernetes 2.0, Stackery achieves AWS Lambda Ready Designation, and DigitalOcean Virtual Private Cloud

Couchbase Autonomous Operator for Kubernetes 2.0 introduces enterprise-grade capabilities including security, resource management, monitoring, high-availability, and cross-cloud compatibility.  This enables self-service access to the database while standardizing development, test, pre-production, and production environment. It also reduces operational complexity up to 95% by implementing the operational best practices that most efficiently deploy and manage Couchbase, according … continue reading

Moving from Python 2 to Python 3

Python 2 has officially reached its end of life. The Python programming language team just announced Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2. Going forward, Python 2 will no longer receive updates, bug reports, fixes or changes.  The Python Software Foundation recommends those using Python 2 switch to Python 3 as soon as possible. … continue reading

SD Times news digest: Dispatch 1.1, Acquia’s new tools for Drupal 9 adoption, and Imperva’s advanced bot protection solution

D2iQ has announced the release of Dispatch 1.1. Dispatch is a cloud-native CI/CD solution for enterprise-grade GitOps. This version is designed to accelerate the CI/CD pipeline, enhance developer agility and improve collaboration in building pipelines.  The solution’s multi-language declarative pipeline model enables developers to leverage open source and CNCF projects, such as Tekton and ArgoCD, … continue reading

Red Hat Summit 2020 stresses the importance of open innovation and collaboration

While everyone in the world is separated from their friends, families, and co-workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, Red Hat wants to remind us about the importance of staying connected and collaborating. The company kicked off its first virtual Red Hat Summit this week to talk about its open hybrid cloud vision, products and partnerships. “We … continue reading

AWS Augmented Artificial Intelligence adds human review to machine learning predictions

Amazon’s Augmented Artificial Intelligence (A21) platform is now generally available. It is a fully managed service designed to make it easy for developers to add human review to machine learning predictions so that they can review low confidence predictions made by AI.  According to Amazon, the solution can be used to help the machine extract … continue reading

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