Google wants Gmail to be more than just a place where users receive and send emails. The company is announcing new tools that will allow users to do more from their inbox. The Google G Suite team is releasing Gmail add-ons, a new extensibility framework for developers, and ten ready to use enterprise integrations. Earlier … continue reading
The Apache Software Foundation has announced Apache PredictionIO is graduating from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project. The news marks an important milestone in the project’s progress. Apache PredictionIO is an open-source machine learning server. It is designed to help developers and data scientists create predictive engines and services for machine learning tasks. … continue reading
Parasoft has announced the latest release of Parasoft SOAtest and Virtualize, which has extended support for continuous integration platforms. New plug-ins allow users to parse test results back into common CI platforms, including Bamboo, Jenkins, Microsoft VSTS, and Team City. The new release extends support for organizations that leverage Behavior Driven Development, which will pave … continue reading
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has announced it will be hosting two new security projects, Notary and The Update Framework (TUF). Notary is based on the TUF specification, which helps developers secure new or existing software update systems. Notary and TUF provide both a client and pair of server apps for hosting metadata. Notary’s … continue reading
Jyoti Bansal, former CEO and founder of AppDynamics, has launched a new company called BIG Labs. Its first project, Harness, launched today after $20 million in Series A funding. Harness is a continuous delivery-as-a-service platform that uses AI to solve common issues with the continuous delivery process. When speaking with Bansal, he emphasized the importance … continue reading
These days it is almost impossible to develop in JavaScript without utilizing one of the thousands of open-source JavaScript libraries available. Libraries make coding in JavaScript simpler and more efficient by taking processes that would ordinarily require several lines of code to achieve and simplifying them, usually by creating a single function that can be … continue reading
It has been over a year since Google announced its commitment to provide a more secure web with HTTPS, and today the company is announcing it is making great strides. Google is releasing its public Transparency Report to detail the progress it’s made with HTTPS usage. According to the report, 64% of Chrome traffic on … continue reading
Teradata has announced the availability of the Teradata Analytics Platform. The new platform will allow users to use their preferring tools and programming languages across multiple data types. According to the company, analytics is embedded close to data to eliminate the need to move data around in order to analyze it. The new platform will … continue reading
Customer training is a critical, but frequently overlooked business driver for software companies. As the industry has increasingly moved from a perpetual license model to subscription services, securing renewals has become just as important as winning new business. This trend has driven increased demand for customer-facing training programs that keep customers engaged and ensure customers … continue reading
GitHub announced the launch of four new developer apps on the GitHub Marketplace this week, designed for code security, monitoring and review. The first of these new releases is AccessLint, which reviews changes to your codebase for accessibility issues and comments on them. The detection is guided by WCAG 2.0, which helps determine compliance with … continue reading
With great technology comes great risks. As new technology continues to emerge in this digital day and age, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute (SEI) is taking a deeper look on the impact they will have. The institute has released its 2017 Emerging Technology Domains Risk report detailing future threats and vulnerabilities. “To support the … continue reading
Cisco has announced their intent to acquire Perspica in an effort to support and accelerate their AppDynamics vision, which Cisco purchased earlier this year. The company hopes that the addition of Perspica will allow customers to take advantage of more machine learning capabilities in order to analyze large amounts of data. “With the addition of … continue reading
Facebook has announced the open source release of their RacerD unsynchronized memory access — or data race — detector for Java applications following its successful implementation internally. RaceD is based off of the company’s open source static analysis tool, Infer. According to Facebook, this newest publicly available piece of Infer’s static analysis platform has caught more … continue reading
Mozilla is teaming up with Microsoft, Google, W3C, Samsung and other industry leaders as part of a joint effort to “make web development a little easier” by bringing documentation for multiple browsers to their MDN Web Docs educational platform. The project will be led by a newly formed Product Advisory Board for MDN that will … continue reading
