Low code app development in 2024
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 by Richard Harris
Recently, low-code no-code app development tools have bridged a lot of gaps and enabled developers to overcome challenges that used to be complex or even unattainable. Some of the key areas these developer tools have made impacts in include automating code, natural language processing, image and video recognition capabilities, predictive analyti...
Google Flutter comes out of Beta to help speed up native development
Tuesday, December 18, 2018 by Richard Harris
For cross-platform mobile development, developers generally have to choose between either building the same app multiple times for multiple operating systems, or to accept a solution that trades native speed and accuracy for portability. Flutter provides a solution that gives developers the best of both worlds: hardware-accelerated graphics and UI, powered by native ARM...
Mobile publisher Gismart teams up with Appodeal
Friday, August 17, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Gismart partners up with Appodeal to support mobile apps and games chosen for publishing with global monetization reach. Strategic cooperation between companies will allow indie developers to benefit from Appodeal’s ad monetization platform and Gismart’s publishing expertise by improving the application, bringing their mobile product to millions of players, ...
Global DevOps Market Predictions Suggests a 20 Percent Annual Growth Rate
Monday, April 25, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
According to the “Global DevOps Platform Market 2016-2020”, created by the research firm Research and Markets, the DevOps market should see a steady growth rate of around 20 percent (CAGR of 19.42%) through the end of the decade.The report covers the present scenario and the future growth prospects of the global DevOps platform market through 2020. To calculate the mark...
Google Announces Beta Release of Google Cloud Trace and Monitoring
Saturday, January 24, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Last year Google announced Google Cloud Trace and Google Cloud Monitoring (through the acquisition and integration of Stackdriver) and now has released both in beta to anyone using the Google Cloud Platform. Google Cloud Trace Google Cloud Trace allows developers to diagnose performance issues in a production application by finding the traces for slow req...
Google IO Announcements Include New Developer Services to Build and Optimize
Wednesday, June 25, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Among other things announced today at Google I/O , is the introduction of new services to help developers build and optimize data pipelines, create mobile applications, and debug, trace, and monitor their cloud applications in production. These include:Google Cloud DataflowCloud Dataflow is a fully managed service for creating data pipelines that ingest, transform and a...
Updates to Google Cloud Platform Include New Version of Mobile Backend Starter and Google Cloud Endpoints GA Version
Monday, November 11, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
As the Google Cloud continues to woo developers, an announcement has been made that Google Cloud Endpoints has now moved to general availability and a new version of Mobile Backend Starter is now available.
Google Cloud EndpointsGoogle Cloud Endpoints helps developers build their own backend offering a simple way to create, expose and consume APIs served from App Engin...
Google Launches Cloud Based Backend Tools for iOS App Developers
Monday, October 14, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Google is trying to bring iOS app developers closer into its fold with the announcement of iOS tools in the Google Cloud Platform.
For the uninitiated, mobile backends enable developers the opportunity to create connected mobile apps without writing server-side code. Google’s offering for server-side development for iOS developers is its new Mobile Backend ...
AppScale 1.11.0 Released
Wednesday, October 2, 2013 by Richard Harris
AppScale (the open source Google Cloud Platform and App Engine all-in-one) has announced the latest version of it's software which incorporates many changes, including changing to devappserver2, some Ubuntu support, PHP app engine support, and many more updates.AppScale currently supports and maintains the most commonly used APIs from the Google App Engine stack. T...
Weekly Roundup: Apple Developer Outage, Jellybean 4.3, Amazon and Windows Phone, Unity and Blackberry 10, and GDC 2014
Saturday, July 27, 2013 by Richard Harris
From the Editors DeskThis weekend is the last weekend before the August issue release and there has been no shortage of news to cover! From the Apple outage, to the Android 4.3 Jellybean update this week has been one for the books! We won't be publishing a podcast this week, while put all of our efforts towards putting the finishing touches on the August issue, but we'l...
Google Announces Release of App Engine 1.8.2
Monday, July 22, 2013 by Ron Beaman
On the Google Cloud blog the company has announced the release of App Engine 1.8.2 which includes improvements for large-scale application development, developer tooling, runtimes and a new dedicated memcache service.
App Engine's new shared and dedicated memcache service requires no code changes when moving to dedicated memcache from shared and billing enabled apps ca...
