Topic: automation
SD Times news digest: Boomi Blueprint Framework for Data Management, Microsoft to end Windows’ PHP 7.2 support, and Instana enterprise enhancements
Boomi’s Blueprint framework includes leadership guidance, design practice, and implementation practices. “This set of best practices provides companies with the ability to respond to disruptive forces and quickly adapt their digital platform towards desired business vision and outcomes,” Boomi wrote in a post. In addition, leadership guidance provides the Digital Ideation Lab, a Boomi innovation … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Microsoft and LinkedIn launch new initiative to reskill workers, Compuware announces new features to automate shift-left testing, Git client Tower 5 for Mac
Microsoft and LinkedIn have launched an initiative to bring digital skills to 25 million people by the end of year. The initiative will focus on the use of data to identify in-demand jobs and the skills needed to fill them. It will provide free access to learning paths and content, as well as low-cost certifications. … continue reading
The HCL Software DevOps portfolio expands with three major releases
HCL Software expanded its software DevOps team and product portfolio with the releases of three major tools: HCL Accelerate 2.0, HCL Launch 7.1, and HCL OneTest 10.1. “Digital transformation investments are really accelerating and companies are doubling down here. We see a whole slew of investment in collaboration security tools but Agile, IT, delivery, and … continue reading
Chef announces new integrated DevSecOps portfolio for compliance, desktop management and app delivery
Chef announced new capabilities designed to enable coded enterprises to build competitive advantage through automation and DevSecOps innovations. “Since our last ChefConf, we have been intensely focused on harnessing our long experience in operating at massive scale and speed while enabling unprecedented ease of use,” said Barry Crist, the CEO of Chef. The new Chef … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Rust makes TIOBE Index top 20 list, GitHub’s Dependabot version updates, and Checkmarx SCA
Rust has made it to the TIOBE Index Top 20 for the first time, ten years since its inception. All the verbose programming and sharp edges of other languages are solved by Rust while being statically strongly typed. Its type system prevents run-time null pointer exceptions and memory management is calculated compile-time. So no garbage … continue reading
Microsoft provides insight into its programming language Bosque
Microsoft Research is working on a new programming language designed around cloud-first development and artificial intelligence. As part of its work, the company announced new capabilities for the Bosque programming language created to support automated reasoning tools. According to Microsoft, Bosque derives from a combination of TypeScript inspired syntax and types plus ML and Node/JavaScript … continue reading
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Insomnia Designer
Insomnia Designer is Kong’s recently open sourced collaborative design editor for APIs that aims to make it easier for developers and DevOps teams to create and edit API specifications. The software works natively with Insomnia’s testing capabilities to accelerate the development, performance, and stability of REST and GraphQL services. “The need for stable, high-performing APIs … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Couchbase Autonomous Operator for Kubernetes 2.0, Stackery achieves AWS Lambda Ready Designation, and DigitalOcean Virtual Private Cloud
Couchbase Autonomous Operator for Kubernetes 2.0 introduces enterprise-grade capabilities including security, resource management, monitoring, high-availability, and cross-cloud compatibility. This enables self-service access to the database while standardizing development, test, pre-production, and production environment. It also reduces operational complexity up to 95% by implementing the operational best practices that most efficiently deploy and manage Couchbase, according … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Python 2.7.18 released, Syncfusion’s Flutter widgets web compatibility, and Mabl’s new automated testing capabilities
Python 2.7.18 has been released as the last Python 2 release to make more room for Python 3. “Python 2.7 has been under active development since the release of Python 2.6, more than 11 years ago. Over all those years, CPython’s core developers and contributors sedulously applied bug fixes to the 2.7 branch, no small … continue reading
SD Times news digest: GitHub now free for teams, Pinpoint engineering dashboard released, and PyCharm 2020.1
Private repositories with unlimited collaborators are now available to all GitHub accounts and all of the core GitHub features are available to everyone. “This means teams can now manage their work together in one place: CI/CD, project management, code review, packages, and more. We want everyone to be able to ship great software on the … continue reading
Stackery expands its serverless offering with new security and CI/CD features
Stackery today announced the expansion of its serverless security and CI/CD capabilities that enable teams to automate delivery best practices. This includes additional audit capabilities, scoped IAM permissions, and secrets management for automated verification and deployment pipelines. Stackery’s SaaS platform makes it possible for any business designing, developing, and delivering modern applications to enhance productivity … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Automation Anywhere’s Bot Security, Linux 5.6, and the IntelliSense Code Linter for C++
Automation Anywhere has launched the Bot Security program . The Bot Security program introduces a flexible, multi-tiered framework to certify that bots built by customers, partners, and publishers of bots on Bot Store are pre-certified and trusted to scale RPA more rapidly and securely. Bot Security includes four levels of protection: malware scan; self-attestation and … continue reading
