Progressive delivery is the natural extension of continuous delivery but refines what it means to “deliver” because unlike the ‘big bang’ of an all-or-nothing release cutover, progressive delivery enables the business to gradually expose new functionality to limited numbers of users to assess the impact on user behavior and system health before expanding the release … continue reading
Many organizations claim to be doing DevOps, but is that actually the case? For one thing, just about everybody has their own definition of DevOps, and that interpretation tends to impact how DevOps operates within a team or company. Following are five of the misconceptions. #1: DevOps = Dev + Ops On some level, parsing … continue reading
Xamarin goes dual screen Microsoft announced the public preview of the SDK for Surface Duo, which provides recommended patterns for building apps along with many customizable features. All the features that support dual-screen experiences for the Surface Duo are cross-platform and require no changes to Xamarin.Forms itself. For the initial launch, Microsoft created a custom … continue reading
There are three ways to create a DevOps culture: by default, by design or iteratively. The three are not necessarily mutually exclusive because DevOps tends to be a learning experience that takes considerable time. For example, talent marketplace Topcoder has had a formal DevOps practice for the past three or four years and started a … continue reading
The latest issue of SD Times is now available. The February issue marks SD Times 20th anniversary and features how software development has changed over time, web development’s shift to a mobile-first approach, the UI testing Buyers Guide, and the second part of a deeper look at DevOps. Read on to learn more… … continue reading
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is reviewing the state of security across its 300+ projects in a recently released report. According to the report, the most notable events in 2019 included increased attacks of Hadoop instances, a flaw in Apache HTTP Server 2.4, and a flaw in older versions of Apache Axis. The foundation looked … continue reading
Awareness around and adoption of Kubernetes has been nothing short of phenomenal. When it was new, and the KubeCon conference had just begun, sessions were highly technical, aimed at practitioners looking to build out and manage containerized applications. Most enterprise executives were likely not even aware. I attended last year’s event and spoke with quite … continue reading
ArangoDB has announced a new machine learning offering. The ArangoML Pipeline Cloud is a fully-hosted, fully-managed common metadata layer for production-grade data science and ML platforms that runs on ArangoDB Oasis. “ArangoML Pipeline Cloud meets the needs of both data scientists, who are concerned with the quality of the data, feature training, and model results, … continue reading
Manifold is a visual debugging tool for machine learning developed by Uber. Machine learning is widely used across the Uber platform to support decision making and forecasting for features such as ETA prediction and fraud detection, the company explained. The tool aims to help engineers and scientists identify performance issues across ML data slices and … continue reading
The IBM board of directors has elected a new CEO to lead it into “the next era.” The company’s senior vice president for cloud and cognitive software, Arvind Krishna, will replace Ginni Rometty as CEO. The switch will become effective April 6, 2020. Rometty will continue as IBM’s executive chairman of the board until the … continue reading
A planetarium in your living room might not be as far away as you think. NASA built a VR simulation that animated the speed and direction of 4 million stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, and has many other VR projects underway. The work is being done through NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. The virtual … continue reading
Apache Guacamole 1.1 has been announced. Apache Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway. The latest release includes two subprojects, the HTML5 web application which serves the Guacamole client to users, and “guacamole-server”, the remote desktop proxy which the web application communicates with. The 1.1.0 release also features support for dynamic image quality and for … continue reading
Facebook is attempting to be more transparent over the user data it possesses. Under intense public scrutiny this past year, the company has made a number of updates related to data privacy, including privacy checks, alerts for third-party logins, and the ability for users to have more control over off-Facebook activity. According to Facebook, off-Facebook … continue reading
Eggplant’s latest version of its Digital Automation Intelligence (DAI) platform includes new capabilities that democratize intelligent test automation as well as a new user interface. The new user interface brings together asset creation and editing, test definition, reporting, and advanced analysis into a unified experience, according to the company. Other new additions to the platform … continue reading
