Go 1.14 is on track to be released in February, but the Go team is already planning ahead to the next release. Go 1.15 is scheduled for August, and the team is currently considering what library and language changes to include. According to the team, the primary goals for Go are package and version management, … continue reading
More than half of companies that use cloud services have suffered from a data breach, according to a new report. The report finds that the data breaches are a result of widely dispersed in the cloud that are beyond enterprise control. The Enterprise Supernova: The Data Dispersion Cloud Adoption and Risk Report was conducted by … continue reading
Nutanix Mine is now generally available, allowing users to experience data management capabilities on Nutanix’s enterprise cloud platform. “Backed up data, kept in isolated and aging infrastructure is hard to access, difficult to manage, often stored on antiquated devices, and almost impossible to reuse,” Nutanix Mine wrote in a post. “This keen focus on data … continue reading
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is calling on Microsoft to open source Windows 7 now that it has reached End of Life. Windows 7 reached End of Life on January 14, 2020. “The end of Windows 7’s lifecycle gives Microsoft the perfect opportunity to undo past wrongs, and to upcycle it instead,” the FSF wrote … continue reading
With current data regulations in place like the CCPA and GDPR, it’s hard to imagine data privacy not being a top priority for companies. But unfortunately that’s still not the case, and companies still struggle to make it a priority. To remind companies to practice good data hygiene and privacy, Data Privacy Day is celebrated … continue reading
JetBrains has announced that it is opening the Early Access Program for the next major release of IntelliJ IDEA v2020.1. With IntelliJ IDEA 2020.1, users can download JDK from the IDE, which will automatically download and set up the chosen Java version. It also includes support for Java 14, an editor for quick type definition … continue reading
Open source has a sustainability problem. A question that’s frequently discussed in the web development community is how to make open-source maintainable. As one of many examples, Henry Zhu, the lead maintainer of Babel, one of the most depended-on projects in the JavaScript ecosystem, until 2017 was working on Babel in his free-time while working … continue reading
Microsoft announced a source code analyzer called Microsoft Application Inspector that can help developers identify “interesting” features and metadata. The tool is a cross-platform CLI that can produce output in multiple formats including JSON and interactive HTML. Application Inspector can help identify high-risk components and unexpected features that require additional scrutiny under the theory that … continue reading
Academic data is one of the most underutilized forms of data that exist today. Outside of educational institutions, the only significant use of this data is in enrollment verification, though even that use case is not particularly widespread. And yet, academic data holds massive potential in providing predictive behavioral signals that could directly benefit the … continue reading
Mozilla released a guide for college students that want to enter the tech industry called “With Great Tech Comes Great Responsibility.” The guide has background on the history of tech organizing and advice from academics and current and former tech workers on how to grapple with challenging choices. Download the guide here. Azure Databricks achieves … continue reading
Scylla is an open source NoSQL database that leverages Apache Cassandra’s innovation and elevates it to the next level. According to the Scylla team, Scylla is implemented in C++14 and offers a “shared-nothing, thread-per-code design.” Scylla’s website claims: “You get the best of all worlds: the scale-out, fault tolerance of Cassandra, with the throughput of … continue reading
While many companies still utilize relational databases, the benefits of NoSQL databases are clear, whether that’s the ability to handle large volumes of structured or unstructured data, perform Agile sprints or its flexibility and scalability. And moving to a NoSQL database is easier than most think. Brian Hess, the strategic solution engineer at DataStax, explained … continue reading
Atlassian is making another major update to its issue and project tracking software Jira, tackling what it says is one of the most popular user features: the native roadmap. According to the company, when it launched the next-generation Jira Software experience last year, 45% of users were using the roadmap feature within a month of … continue reading
Microsoft announced dual-screen preview SDKs as well as new web standards proposals to enable dual-screen experiences for websites and PWAs on both Android and Windows 10X. The preview SDK for Microsoft Surface Duo includes native Java APIs and an Android Emulator with a preview Surface Duo image that is integrated into Android Studio. Additionally, Microsoft … continue reading
