API marketplace and management platform Mashape has open-sourced Kong, its platform providing a centralized management layer for APIs and microservices. Kong enables developers to create plugins for authentication, rate limiting, transformations and other common utilities in Web, mobile and IoT applications. The platform uses NGINX as a proxy server, and supports single and multi-datacenter setups … continue reading
Red Hat is updating its open-source development tools with a focus on developer productivity and production stability. The company has announced the availability of Red Hat Developer Toolset 3.1, a selection of stable C and C++ compilers and development tools. (Related: Other Red Hat news, this time about Linux containers) “Across the open hybrid cloud, … continue reading
Dice has released its latest analysis of its online job postings, which revealed the fastest-growing technology skills. The Top 10 trending skills, according to Dice, are Cloudera Impala, Adobe Experience Manager, Ansible, Xamarin, OnCue, Laravel, RStudio, Unified Functional Testing, Pascal and Apache Kafka. (Related: Five key skills for Linux job seekers) “Skills rise and fall … continue reading
Microsoft has announced Azure Service Fabric, a new cloud platform for developers and ISVs to build scalable cloud services. According to a blog post from Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich, Azure Service Fabric has been in production for more than five years and underlies Microsoft services like Skype for Business, DocumentDB, Azure SQL Database, and … continue reading
VMware has announced two new open-source projects to help enterprise developers create, deploy and manage cloud-native applications. The projects include Project Lightwave and Project Photon. Project Lightwave is an identity- and access-management project that will add a new layer of container security to cloud-native apps. Project Photon is a lightweight Linux operating system designed for … continue reading
Mobile deep linking startup URX has announced the launch of AppViews, a new type of link establishing contextually relevant connections between apps by recommending user actions. URX sees AppViews as the next step in deep linking—building on existing app-to-app pathways to increase discovery by not only facilitating users from one app to another, but also … continue reading
One thousand three hundred enterprise developers responded to Black Duck’s 2015 Future of Open Source survey, and the results point to an easy road ahead for publicly developed software. Chief among the findings was that 78% of those respondents reported that their company as using open-source software in production, and only 3% said they did … continue reading
Since Docker was launched two years ago, it has taken the software development industry by storm. Today, with the announcement of a new round of Series D funding at US$95 million, it is worth about $1 billion, according to Bloomberg. “Our responsibility is to give people the tools they need to create applications that weren’t … continue reading
Cyanogen is starting to roll out its version of Android Lollipop: Cyanogen OS 12. The new version features Android’s material design elements to provide users with a visual, interactive OS. Cyanogen OS 12 was designed to provide users a more personal operating system, according to the company, with extra theming features such as the ability … continue reading
There are plenty of resources outside of the classroom that can help teach aspiring developers how to code, and it looks like they are taking advantage of them. A recent survey by Stack Overflow revealed that almost half of developers haven’t received a degree in computer science. “There are many ways to learn how to … continue reading
As commercial drones become more and more popular, developers want to tap into this new market—and DJI wants to help them. The drone company recently announced the DJI SDK for developers to start taking advantage of drone app development. “I love this technology, enjoy flying and taking aerial photos and videos recreationally, but I firmly … continue reading
The championship game is in the books, and the winner of SD Times March Developer Madness is #4 seed Service Virtualization! After a tournament full of surprises, upsets and all eight top seeds going down, Service Virtualization cruised through the Final 4 with convincing wins over cinderella #8 seed NoSQL and #3 seed APIs in … continue reading
