Automating network resilience optimization during challenging times
Friday, May 12, 2023 by Tracy Collins
Unless you have been living under a rock for the past many months, the term "tech layoffs" is one you have undoubtedly heard repeated over and over again in the news cycle, and there's a good chance you are already sick of it. This year alone, no less than 40,000 workers at marquee companies like Alphabet, Microsoft, Spotify, and Amazon were given the...
7 key traits for leadership from Walt Disney
Thursday, October 24, 2019 by Brittany Hainzinger
"Walt was a paradox. I've interviewed hundreds of people who knew him. A few described him as a harsh and insensitive taskmaster. Some found him charming one day, then dour and distant the next. Most lived in awe of him. How could one man be remembered so differently by different people who knew him?” says Pat William, Lead Like Walt (Section: Lead with K...
Service mesh for all
Thursday, September 12, 2019 by Richard Harris
Kong Inc. announced the release of an open-source project called Kuma. Based on the popular open-source Envoy proxy, Kuma is a universal control plane that addresses limitations of first-generation service mesh technologies by enabling seamless management of any service on the network. Kuma runs on any platform – including Kubernetes, containers, virtual machines,...
Puppet DevOps report gives their take on the industry
Monday, September 17, 2018 by Richard Harris
Puppet announced the findings of the 2018 State of DevOps Report. Over the past seven years, Puppet has surveyed more than 30,000 technical professionals, making this report the largest, most comprehensive and longest-running study they have ever done on the topic of DevOps. This year’s survey garnered responses from more than 3,000 global technology professionals...
The impact of AI on the nearshoring market
Tuesday, September 19, 2017 by Richard Harris
Artificial Intelligence solutions, such as machine learning and deep learning algorithms, and chatbots, are fast becoming a business necessity for organizations everywhere, helping them make data-driven predictions to improve business outcomes, enhance customer service and to improve business workflow. But as a nascent and complex technology, it's difficult for companie...
Behavioral and biometric mobile authentication will end passwords
Friday, September 15, 2017 by David Vergara
You can say this about passwords: they're incredibly resilient. Not in a bulletproof kind of way but, more precisely, in terms of how long they've been around. According to Robert Svensson in his book "From Hacking to Report Writing: An Introduction to Security and Penetration," the first computer system to use passwords was built by researchers at the Massachusetts Ins...
Being smart about competitor mobile ads could increase your eCPM
Monday, January 9, 2017 by Jan Pollack
You've worked hard to build a cool app with great user engagement, and a market for yourself, but you don't want someone else's poor ad or competitive call to action to mess that up, right? This concern causes some developers to keep advertising blacklist settings on auto-pilot, or avoid ads from competitors altogether, but that's a mistake - the odds a...
PMR's report on the global SecurityasaService market
Monday, December 19, 2016 by Christian Hargrave
Adopting the business model of Security-as-a-Service (SaaS) has become a pragmatic choice for companies looking at integrating security with their business infrastructure. Furthermore, emerging technological trends related to the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud-computing will continue to compel more businesses towards implementation of a Security-as-a-Service busines...
Updates to TIBCO Analytics Include New Apache Spark and IoT Functionality
Saturday, May 21, 2016 by Richard Harris
TIBCO Software has released a number of new updates to its analytics platforms, including new data wrangling features in TIBCO Spotfire, new code-free Operational Intelligence dashboards in TIBCO LiveView Web, a new developer community and component exchange, a new Accelerator package for Apache Spark and the IoT, and improved embedded business intelligence (BI) s...
App Developer Event Planning Guide for February and March 2015
Tuesday, February 10, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
If you’re a developer looking for a event to attend the next couple of months, you are in luck! This part of our ongoing series highlighting events focuses on conferences available in February and March. If you want to see our suggestions for the top conferences to attend for 2015, check out the list here.February 2015- DeveloperWeek 2015: As we reported earlier th...
Create and Run Your Own Real time Communication Infrastructure with Open Source Matrix.org
Saturday, September 6, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Matrix.org has launched a new basis for open, distributed, real-time communication between connected devices, services, and people. The goal is to make real-time communication over IP as seamless and interoperable as email. And Matrix.org has recently revealed its first steps in providing open, distributed, real time communications tools.Matrix is a new open standard fo...
Advice for Mobile App Developers Turned CEOs
Friday, August 22, 2014 by Miguel Valdés Faura
When Apple introduced the concept of mobile “Apps” on the first iPhone, they provided developers with the unique opportunity to sell their creations directly to consumers. And all of the sudden, developers were not just developers, they were business people concerned with all aspects of running a business – marketing, accounting, etc. Many indie developers for all inten...
Pragmatic Studio announces a 4 day hands on training course
Monday, June 24, 2013 by Richard Harris
The Pragmatic Studio announces a 4-day, hands-on training course, where participants will learn how to design and build high-quality iOS apps from start to finish. Participants join The Pragmatic Studio either July 22-25 in Reston, Virginia or August 26-29 in Denver, Colorado and learn not only how to use the tools and APIs in the SDK, but also best practices and techni...
If Apple ran the video game business, this is what is would look like.
Thursday, November 29, 2012 by Richard Harris
A CNN report claims that tablet computers are the future of the video games industry, and given Apple's stronghold over the tablet industry that means the iPad (for the foreseeable future) is going to be the future of gaming. Not just handheld gaming, mind – all gaming.If this comes to pass – and it's requiring something of a mental leap from ourselves – ...
