The changing economics of open source
The past several months has seen an unusually high level of commotion in the open source community, largely focused on the economics of who — and how we — should pay for ‘free’ software. But this isn’t just some geeky flame war, what’s at stake here is business critical for vast swathes of the business world. … continue reading
Report: Percentage of Oracle JDK distributions in Java ecosystem drops significantly
Oracle may be the stewards of the Java programming language, but their market share in Java Development Kit (JDK) distributions has significantly dropped over the past two years. This is according to New Relic’s 2022 State of the Java Ecosystem report, which draws data from applications reporting to New Relic. According to the survey, Oracle … continue reading
Mabl incorporates automated accessibility testing
Test automation company mabl has announced that it is extending its testing platform to incorporate accessibility testing. The new testing capabilities are now in beta and will enable teams to identify and resolve accessibility issues before they reach end users. According to mabl, accessibility is more important than ever, both because of increased digital experiences … continue reading
Unqork Spring 2022 release gives no-code developers greater control
The no-code platform Unqork has announced a new update that enables companies to improve upon their ability to build applications without needing to code. Unqork’s no-code platform is based on the idea of Codeless Architecture, which is “an open-standards approach to software development that allows organizations to build and run applications without ever thinking about … continue reading
2022 Call for Code will focus on building solutions that take on climate change
Call for Code is an annual development challenge in which developers create solutions to help with a problem the world is facing. It is sponsored by David Clark Cause, IBM, United Nations Human Rights, and the Linux Foundation. This year, the challenge urges developers to create solutions that take on climate change. The solutions that … continue reading
ClickUp acquires search platform Slapdash
ClickUp, the collaboration and productivity platform, today announced that it has acquired the search and command bar platform, Slapdash. This comes as the company’s first acquisition and with it, ClickUp users gain the ability to to connect with over 40 different applications such as Slack, Salesforce, and Google Drive. This acquisition allows customers to search … continue reading
Red Hat Application Foundations launches to accelerate cloud-native development
Red Hat is introducing a new set of connected applications services that will help accelerate the adoption of containerized application development and delivery. Red Hat Application Foundations enables companies to quickly build application and data services. This new platform will bring key services and components that will complement Red Hat OpenShift. Red Hat OpenShift is … continue reading
GitHub enhances Codespaces with improved experience for working with multi-repository projects
GitHub announced new improvements that streamline the Codespaces experience when working with multi-repository and mono-repo projects. GitHub initially released Codespaces to address cloud-native applications that are housed in a single repository: the most common type of project on GitHub. For those that are developing a feature that spans many different types of services, GitHub added … continue reading
AWS Amplify Studio now generally available
AWS recently announced the general availability of Amplify Studio, a visual interface that works to simplify front and backend development for web and mobile applications. The platform was first presented as a preview during AWS re:Invent 2021. With this, users gain access to an integration with Figma, helping designers and front-end developers to work collaboratively … continue reading
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Kubeflow
Kubeflow is an MLOps toolkit originally created by Google that has integrated components for model development, model training, multi-step pipelines, AutoML, serving, monitoring, artifact management, and experiment tracking. The project aims to reduce costs associated with Running production machine learning workflows at scale with new capabilities. The PyTorch training operator can now be scaled up … continue reading
New Relic announces updates for Infinite Tracing
The observability company New Relic today announced an update to its fully managed tracing solution, New Relic Infinite Tracing. This update offers two new innovations in order to help engineering teams globally. Front-end and full-stack developers now have the ability to analyze distributed traces generated by browser, mobile, and serverless applications as well as their … continue reading
Gradle releases new AI-powered testing solution
Gradle is releasing a new feature that promises to cut testing time by up to 70%. Predictive Test Selection is an extension to Gradle Enterprise that uses machine learning to select and run tests that are likely to provide useful feedback. In doing so, it avoids running tests that aren’t necessary or insightful. According to … continue reading
Sysdig releases new vulnerability prioritization feature
Sysdig announced the release of Risk Spotlight, a vulnerability prioritization feature based on runtime intelligence. The feature enables teams to reduce vulnerabilities by 95% and allows developers to focus on shipping applications faster, according to Sysdig. It also delivers vulnerability details such as CVSS vector from multiple sources, the fix version, and links to publicly … continue reading
Node.js 18 available with Fetch API enabled by default
The latest version of the JavaScript runtime Node.js is now available. Node.js 18 includes an update to the V8 JavaScript engine, global fetch enabled by default, and a core test runner module. The V8 engine has been upgraded to version 10.1. This latest version is part of Chromium 101. Upgrading to this latest version unlocked … continue reading
