Software is the lifeblood of most businesses today. So, what happens if that software is unreliable or insecure? It seems like a no-brainer that the software being pushed out should be protected. But, as software is being developed and deployed at a rapid pace, an important aspect of the life cycle gets lost in the … continue reading
Catch up with the December 2017 issue of SD Times! Read on to learn more. … continue reading
Amazon has announced AWS Cloud9, a new integrated development environment for writing, running, and debugging code from within a web browser. It is designed to make collaborative cloud development easy with features like pair programming and chat. “One of the first things you learn when you start programming is that, just like any craftsperson, your … continue reading
More companies are using DevOps and continuous delivery to accelerate software releases. While the added speed and agility help businesses keep pace with changing customer demands, some wonder whether DevOps and Continuous Delivery actually make software less secure than it might be otherwise. With Micro Focus, organizations can simultaneously improve speed and security as well … continue reading
Google is updating its Android-based embedded operating system with new features and bug fixes. The company released Android Things Developer Preview 6. “Android Things is Google’s platform that enables Android Developers to create Internet of Things (IoT) devices with support for powerful applications such as video and audio processing and on-board machine learning with TensorFlow,” … continue reading
JetBrains IDE for JVM, IntelliJ IDEA, has reached version 2017.3. The new update contains many new features and bug fixes. On the Java side, it added the ability for smart code completion to be aware of type casts, new and improved inspections, improvements to JUnit5 support, a configurable command line shortener, and a run dashboard. … continue reading
Ever since Sparx Systems released its flagship product Enterprise Architect (EA) almost 20 years ago, the company philosophy has been to open up access and distribution of information about the enterprise and democratize knowledge for the stakeholders. The company specializes in highperformance and scalable visual modeling tools based on the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and … continue reading
StreamSet, a enterprise data operations platform provider, is taking on the Internet of Things and edge devices with the open source release of StreamSet Data Collector Edge (SDC Edge). SDC Edge is a end-to-end data ingestion solution for resource- and connectivity-constrained systems such as IoT device or cybersecurity applications. “The massive volume of data created by … continue reading
This year’s Hour of Code, the Code.org-organized campaign that brings together more than 400 partners and over 200,000 educators in providing hour-long introductions to computer science through tutorials and exercises, officially kicks off on Monday, Dec. 4, the start of Code.org’s annual Computer Science Education Week. In line with its express purpose of advocating for … continue reading
Many of today’s software teams build cloud-native apps so they can deliver software faster. However, there’s a general belief that cloud-native apps must be built with microservices when in some cases it may be hard to justify the additional complexity. “DevOps and cloud-native principles are a pre-requisite for building microservices but microservices is not a … continue reading
Amazon wasn’t the only company to announce new services and capabilities at its conference AWS re:Invent this week. As Amazon announced new machine learning, mobile, container, Internet of Things and cloud solutions, other companies took the time to reveal how their products would enhance those solutions even further. RedLock announced its RedLock Cloud 360 Platform … continue reading
OutSystems is releasing a new low-code visual debugger. The platform will allow users to troubleshoot code that is running server-side or on mobile devices. According to the company, low-code solutions allow teams to deliver solutions 10 times faster than if they were coding the whole thing; but currently there aren’t really any good low-code platforms … continue reading
PHP 7.2 has been released with a number of new improvements. New features include the ability to convert numeric keys in object/array casts, counting of non-countable objects, object typehint, HashContext as Object, and improved TLS constants to sane values. More information is available here. CloudPassage releases Container Secure CloudPassage has announced the release of Container … continue reading
Mozilla announced a mission to help developers create speech-to-text applications earlier this year by making voice recognition and deep learning algorithms available to everyone. Today, the company’s machine learning group is one step closer to completing that mission with the initial open source release of its speech recognition model and voice dataset. “There are only … continue reading
