When it comes to what skills developers should be learning, a recent report found organizations and technology managers value open source. According to the report, which was conducted by O’Reilly Media and commissioned by IBM, the increasing adoption of hybrid cloud is driving the importance of open source skills. IBM predicts hybrid cloud adoption will … continue reading
The fifth JetBrains annual report showed that there are 10.1 million JetBrains users around the world and that the company’s revenue grew by 11% in 2020 (with the greatest increase in China at 85%). JetBrains has created an extended family of integrated development environments (IDE) for various programming languages and designed Kotlin, the officially preferred … continue reading
NativeScript has joined the OpenJS Foundation as an incubating project. According to the foundation, incubating projects are projects in the process of completing its on-boarding checklist. NativeScript is an open-source mobile framework that was developed by Progress. It enables developers to access native platform APIs from JavaScript directly. It can be integrated with any other … continue reading
IBM has announced that it will be acquiring monitoring company Instana. The company explained the acquisition will help bolster its hybrid cloud and AI strategy. According to IBM, it will now be able to better help companies manage the challenges and complexities of managing application performance across teams and clouds. “With the added responsibility of … continue reading
The new release of Parasoft C/C++test 2020.2 includes support for modern development workflows, enabling CI/CD pipelines and DevOps to accelerate productivity as well as many new features. New features include Git integration with SCM, which reports new code violations quickly to drastically cut the feedback loop to developers, new code analysis result comparisons of SCM … continue reading
Google shared its full perspective on supporting developers’ ability to choose how they distribute their apps through multiple app stores on different platforms, ensuring equal treatment for all apps, and allowing developers to communicate with customers. The company explained it will be making changes in Android 12 next year to make it easier for people … continue reading
Red Hat and IBM have announced a new marketplace designed to enable organizations to more easily purchase, deploy and manage enterprise software from a variety of vendors across hybrid cloud environments running Red Hat OpenShift. The release of Red Hat Marketplace Select adds control and governance with curated software for an additional cost, according to … continue reading
IBM has released a new open-source API documentation tool to help developers provide better documentation and try out new APIs. The OpenAPI Comment Parser enables developers to document code for OpenAPI specs in a clean and simple way. The company focuses on the OpenAPI specification because it provides an open standard to define and document … continue reading
Google yesterday announced the creation of the Open Usage Commons (OUC), a new open source organization focused on trademarks. As part of the launch, Google reveled the open-source service mesh project Istio would be joining the organization. As a result, long-timer partner and founding member of the Istio project IBM has expressed disappointment in the … continue reading
IBM wants to help developers and data scientists answer important COVID-19 questions. The company’s Center for Open-Source and AI Technologies (CODAIT) has announced COVID notebooks, a toolkit that enables users to make actionable plans based on the data. “A near-constant flow of data from research studies, news outlets, social media, and health organizations make the … continue reading
Split announced new capabilities that allow enterprises to stream feature flags to their apps in milliseconds and to export data records on demand. As part of the new Feature Flag Data Streaming capability, Split has also included a Data Hub that gives enterprises a single place to view, query and export all of their feature flag … continue reading
Micro Focus announced the general availability of Visual COBOL 6.0 and Enterprise Suite 6.0. According to the company, the new releases provide versatile application, process, and infrastructure modernization tools for enterprise developers. “Through new insight-driven tools, API development capabilities and robust deployment options, these Micro Focus solutions give developers new ways to work with complex … continue reading
