Refine is a React framework for developing CRUD applications. Specifically, it is good at being used to build things like internal tools, admin panels, dashboards, and business-to-business (B2B) apps. It provides industry standard components for crucial elements of an app, such as authentication, access control, routing, networking, state management, and internationalization. The framework is headless … continue reading
ServiceNow has released updates to its Now Assist portfolio, which is the company’s generative AI suite. Now Assist in Virtual Agent is a feature that allows users to create and deploy their own chatbots. ServiceNow has added support for Q&A in Knowledge Management and multi-turn conversations that allow customers to provide additional context within the … continue reading
Yesterday, to kick off Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft announced over 100 new features and products designed to help companies on their AI journeys. Earlier this year, the company announced Copilot for Microsoft 365, and at Ignite the company announced some results of a survey it did on use of the tool. Seventy percent of respondents said … continue reading
The Android development team is making several changes aimed at supporting Android developers and their growth. It is adding new capabilities around creating and managing Google Play listings, including the ability to save listings as drafts, schedule listings to publish at a specific time, and test listings with a portion of your audience. This follows … continue reading
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has just published a roadmap for safely and responsibly utilizing AI. This follows President Biden’s Executive Order on AI last month. “In last month’s Executive Order, the President called on DHS to promote the adoption of AI safety standards globally and help ensure the safe, secure, and responsible … continue reading
IBM has announced the upcoming general availability of watsonx.governance in early December. This tool aims to address challenges associated with generative AI, which is powered by large language models (LLM) or foundation models. While such AI models offer various business use cases, they also bring risks and complexities, such as the use of unverified training … continue reading
The past few years have seen intense interest in observability tools, which collect data about the performance of systems and applications to help companies identify and address performance issues and outages. The category seems to be nearing the top of its hype cycle, as seen in Cisco’s recent $28 billion cash offer to acquire Splunk. … continue reading
Microsoft is hosting its annual .NET Conf today through Thursday, and the company has kicked off the event by announcing that .NET 8 is now generally available. “With this release, .NET reshapes the way we build intelligent, cloud-native, applications and high-traffic services that scale on demand,” Gaurav Seth, partner director of product for developer platforms … continue reading
The Linux Foundation has announced its intent to form a new subgroup dedicated to advancing high performance computing (HPC), which is the practice of combining multiple computing resources to power-intensive computing calculations. According to the organization, the High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF) will “build, promote, and advance a portable software stack for high performance computing … continue reading
GitLab has announced updates to GitLab Duo, which is a suite of 14 AI capabilities, including Suggested Reviewers, Vulnerability Summary, and Code Explanation. According to a recently released survey from the company, the developers surveyed said they only spend about 25% of their time writing code. GitLab Duo helps improve product life cycle times because … continue reading
Google is continuing its ongoing effort to make Google Play a place for finding high-quality applications. The company has announced a number of new features that Android developers should be aware of. Earlier this year, Google had announced that developers would now need to meet new verification requirements before publishing their apps. In acknowledgment of … continue reading
JetBrains has been experimenting with ways to improve the development experience for developers, focusing on both project definition and tooling support. One of these projects, called Amper, is now being shared publicly for feedback. Amper is designed as a tool to enhance the user experience of project configuration, particularly focused on aspects like building, packaging, … continue reading
The software testing company SmartBear has announced that it has integrated its AI-powered visual regression testing tool VisualTest with its UI test automation tool TestComplete. SmartBear believes this new integration will make visual regression testing more accessible. Testers can run visual tests and then compare screenshots across runs, without needing to write automation scripts. “Historically, … continue reading
Cloud Foundry announced the latest release of Korifi, a platform that aims to simplify Kubernetes and enhance the application deployment process. It now supports Docker images and allows developers to easily deploy them to Kubernetes. This update streamlines container-based workflows by making Docker images compatible with existing containers in various development stages, which makes it … continue reading
