A number of companies have announced major changes to their executive leadership last month. Here are a couple of highlights: Veeam appoints Niraj Tolia as new CTO Tolia is joining the company after being CEO and co-founder of the data management startup, Alcion, which was acquired by Veeam earlier this month. Before co-founding Alcion, he … continue reading
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announced the release of PostgreSQL 17, the newest version of the open source database. According to the group’s announcement, PostgreSQL 17 has improved performance and scalability while adapting to new data access and storage patterns required by cloud native computing and the rise of AI. Among the key new features … continue reading
Today’s business landscape is arguably more competitive and complex than ever before: Customer expectations are at an all-time high and businesses are tasked with meeting (or exceeding) those needs, while simultaneously creating new products and experiences that will provide consumers with even more value. At the same time, many organizations are strapped for resources, contending … continue reading
Buildpacks help ease the burden on developers by taking source code and turning it into fully functional apps. To learn more about this technology, we interviewed Ram Iyengar, chief evangelist of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, on the most recent episode of our podcast, What the Dev? Here is an edited and abridged version of that … continue reading
The testing platform BrowserStack has announced the general availability of a new solution designed to help mobile app testers make their apps more inclusive and accessible. App Accessibility Testing finds accessibility issues early on in the mobile app development process so that developers can take a more proactive approach to fixing these issues. It requires … continue reading
The software delivery company Harness is jumping on the AI train with a number of new AI solutions across its DevOps, QA, and Code Generation solutions. Harness AI DevOps Assistant uses AI to optimize workflows and track deployments, and can make recommendations on what improvements to make. It also helps with the creation of pipelines … continue reading
The Eclipse Foundation has announced that it formed the Open Regulatory Compliance Working Group to help the open source community navigate upcoming global regulations. “Given the impact of software technology on the global economy, it is unsurprising that governments worldwide are enacting new regulations to safeguard privacy, security, and accessibility,” said Mike Milinkovich, executive director … continue reading
The observability platform Honeycomb has just launched Honeycomb for Frontend Observability to provide developers with access to more debugging and observability capabilities. “The frontend is critical – it’s where customers spend their time and where revenue is generated. Unfortunately, many frontend observability tools are outdated, offering only aggregated metrics and limited insights,” said Christine Yen, … continue reading
OpenAI is attempting to level up developers and enable them to use AI to solve issues in their communities and drive economic growth. OpenAI Academy is a new program that will provide technical guidance and support from OpenAI experts, distribute $1 million in API credits (with more potentially being added later), hold contests and incubator … continue reading
Digital twins are sophisticated software constructs that emerged in the field of product lifecycle management to model and design complex devices like jet engines and nuclear reactors. Today, digital twins extend their utility beyond the design phase to tracking live systems. They ingest device telemetry, maintain state information, and analyze changing conditions in real time. … continue reading
Organizations understand the importance of code in today’s business landscape. We rely on software to power our daily lives — the global market is projected to grow to nearly $1.6 trillion within the next decade. Developers are feeling the pressure from this, with the increased push to write more code every day. However, this does … continue reading
Anyone testing web applications ought to be aware of a new browser automation protocol called WebDriver BiDi. This new protocol is an evolution of the original WebDriver standard and it incorporates some of the benefits of various other automation tools, most notably, adding bidirectional communication. “It’s a brand new protocol, and it’s taking all the … continue reading
The PostgreSQL database, YugabyteDB, has been updated to a distributed architecture to make it a better option for companies building cloud-native applications. According to Yugabyte, while PostgreSQL has many benefits, it does have limited resilience and scalability, which is not good for applications that need to stay online through outages, scale quickly to keep up … continue reading
Swift 6, now generally available, is a major release of the programming language and expands it to more platforms and domains beyond just Apple operating systems, which is what it was originally designed for. It now offers strict concurrency checking, which helps developers find data races at compile time, which could lead to an app … continue reading