As an industry we’ve been talking about platforms for a very long time. Everyone thinks they need one but many people don’t know why. Perhaps more concerning, many organizations build them and then don’t realize the value they expected. This trend was reinforced by the recently published Technology Radar — Thoughtworks’ biannual look at the tech … continue reading
Google’s Firebase announced a series of updates and new features for its mobile and web application development platform in a lead-up to the company’s Firebase Summit in Prague this week, including improvements to the utility’s user interface and machine learning, analytics and reporting capabilities. The first release is new support for Firebase in Google Cloud … continue reading
Realm has announced version 2.0 of their real-time mobile platform, adding new features and promising an easier way to make real-time, responsive mobile apps. The Realm Platform features tools for developers to integrate messaging, collaboration, a real-time distributed database and their Object Server computing platform in their apps. With this new release — in addition … continue reading
SAP announced its SAP HANA express edition, a downloadable version of its in-memory platform for development of applications. It allows developers to have access to the platform and build applications free of charge and on a laptop, desktop or in the cloud. With SAP HANA, developers have access to a downloadable version of SAP’s platform, … continue reading
