Topic: software development

SD Times news digest: Parallel Agile releases new version of Codebot, Hazelcast announces Hazelcast Platform, CognitiveScale announces Cortex Fabric 6

Parallel Agile announced a new version of CodeBot, a low-code MongoDB, Express, React and Node (MERN) stack application generator that now connects screens to databases and provides an extensive library of UI components. “This release finally achieves our product goal of an end-to-end application generator, which supports an evolutionary, domain-driven approach to agile development,” said … continue reading

SD Times news digest: Catchpoint updates, Codefresh announces new GitOps features, Sopheon releases latest version of Accolade

Catchpoint announced major platform enhancements including Application Performance Management deep linking and expanded integrations that provide enterprises complete user experience visibility.  “Today, many Enterprises struggle to deliver their business outcomes with traditional monitoring technology as the majority of legacy tools are incapable of providing holistic business-level observability of a hybrid IT world,” says Mehdi Daoudi, … continue reading

SD Times news digest: Android Game Development Kit, Informatica’s data governance and catalog as-a-service, and Google Cloud’s certificate service

The new Android Game Development Kit (AGDK) is a set of tools and libraries that help users develop, optimize, and deliver high-quality Android games. The AGDK tools and libraries work across many different Android versions and work across almost any device in use today. Also, Android plans to enhance the AGDK features in future Android … continue reading

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SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Airbyte

Airbyte is a data integration platform that runs in the cloud and replicates data. It enables users to get their data pipelines running in minutes with either pre-built or custom connectors from the Airbyte UI, API or CLI.  Developers simply need to authenticate their sources and get connectors that adapt to schema or API changes.  … continue reading

SD Times news digest: JRebel 2021.3.0 and XRebel 2021.3.0, HPE acquires Ampool, Ruby 3.0.2 released

The JRebel 2021.3.0 release adds support for Vaadin 20.0, SpringBoot 2.5, and Glassfish 6.1.  Vaadin 20.0 has support for Gradle as well as Spring Security helpers and the latest SpringBoot versions allow JRebel users to be able to freely update their applications to the latest technologies available. Also, the XRebel 2021.3.0 release adds support for … continue reading

Report: Developers are moving away from Java 8 to Java 11

Previous reports of the Java community found that developers were still mainly using Java 8 and didn’t adopt newer versions, but according to Snyk’s JVM Ecosystem Report 2021, that is starting to change. This year, 61.5% of respondents are using Java 11 somewhere in production, and almost 12% are using the latest release, which was … continue reading

SD Times news digest: TypeScript 4.4 beta, Rust support improvements in Linux kernel, Sauce Labs acquires Backtrace

Some of the major highlights of the TypeScript 4.4 beta are control flow analysis of aliased conditions, symbol and template string pattern index signatures and more.  With control flow analysis of aliased conditions enabled, developers don’t have to convince TypeScript of a variable’s type whenever it is used because the type-checker leverages something called control … continue reading

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SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Scorecards

The Scorecards project is an automated security tool that produces a “risk score” for open-source projects that just reached version 2 yesterday.  The new version adds new security checks, a scaled up number of projects being scored and data has been made easily accessible for analysis.  It was created last fall by the Google Open … continue reading

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GitHub Copilot aims to help developers write better code

GitHub launched a technical preview of GitHub Copilot, a new AI pair programmer that helps developers write better code. The tool draws context from the code that’s being worked on and suggests whole lines or entire functions to suggest alternative ways to solve problems, write tests, and explore new APIs without having to search for … continue reading

SD Times news digest: JetBrains Datalore for Enterprise, Google to require all new apps be published with Android App Bundle, MariaDB partners with AWS

JetBrains released Datalore for Enterprise, a collaborative team environment that helps data scientists to work together in Jupyter Notebooks.   It provides a convenient way to dynamically manage Python environments, helps connect and explore data and introduces smart code autocompletion.  In addition, Datalore for Enterprise allows teams to connect hardware, configure team environments, authenticate users and … continue reading

SD Times news digest: Android security updates, Solo.io’s product enhancements, and JFrog acquires Vdoo for $300 million

Android announced two new security measures including additional identification requirements and two-step verification.  Account owners of developer accounts will also be asked to provide their account type, a contact name, physical address and verification of the email address and phone number. “In August, all new developer accounts will need to specify their account type and … continue reading

SD Times news digest: Google Play developer updates, New Relic launches Errors Inbox, OpenLogic by Perforce adds support for Rocky Linux and other CentOS alternatives

Google announced that it is investing in better cross-device experiences by opening its Play Media Experience Program to developers globally. The integrations include Google’s Video TV, video, subscription music, audio services as well as the new Entertainment Space.  “Through these integrations, we enable new discovery and re-engagement opportunities for developers to accelerate their overall growth … continue reading

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