Red Hat Developer Hub is available now
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 by Richard Harris
Red Hat, Inc., the provider of open-source solutions, announced the general availability of Red Hat Developer Hub, an enterprise-grade internal developer platform (IDP) based on Backstage, an open-source Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project. Featuring a self-service portal, standardized software templates, dynamic plug-in management, enterprise role-ba...
Increase developer productivity in 2022
Sunday, January 9, 2022 by Freeman Lightner
Patrick Jean is the CTO at OutSystems, where he's focused on building a great engineering culture where motivated people are free to unleash their passion doing meaningful work. With more than 20 years of engineering leadership experience, he has led multiple high-stakes, cloud transformation initiatives at SaaS providers, blending customer focus, inspired developme...
Kubernetes for the enterprise as Canonical sees it
Tuesday, August 10, 2021 by Richard Harris
Nearly five years ago, throngs of people in cities across America started roaming streets, parks, and other places to hunt down creatures on their cell phones. The launch of Pokémon GO on July 5, 2016, created a craze, peaking at 45 million daily users and smashing previous estimates of player traffic.
Behind the scenes, a new open-source technology played a p...
Game developing from home in 2021
Tuesday, January 26, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
More Games Being Made at Home: With the growing ability to work remotely through the cloud, game developers around the world are looking at a scenario where they don’t have to be in the studio to make AAA games. This trend will fundamentally shift how studios approach hiring and developing talent, and how they help improve things like employee work/life balance.
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Kubernetes advantages and challenges
Tuesday, August 25, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
In this exclusive Q&A with ADM, Sirish talks about how the pandemic accelerated the progression from cloud-enabled to cloud-native, he explains how 75 percent of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production, plus how Platform9 is the outperforming leader in the hosted Kubernetes space among the giants.
ADM: From a developer’...
NGINX 2019 F5 announcements for DevOps, NetOps, and SecOps
Thursday, September 12, 2019 by Freeman Lightner
At NGINX Conf, F5 Networks announced several new solutions designed to help DevOps, NetOps, and SecOps teams better collaborate in delivering modern applications.
“Companies are at a digital tipping point,” said Gus Robertson, SVP and GM of NGINX at F5. “They must modernize their apps and infrastructure in order to offer experiences as compelling as...
Knative build component extends Kubernetes
Monday, July 30, 2018 by Richard Harris
Developers may no longer have to choose between serverless FaaS and containerized application architectures with the release of a new blog post by Jason McGee, VP and IBM Fellow, IBM Cloud.
Traditionally, developers have one of two options. Either they go the cloud Function-as-a-Service(FaaS) route and enjoy rapid development times and scalability, or they go the con...
Monitoring Kubernetes and Docker just got easier thanks to Sumo Logic
Tuesday, June 19, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Sumo Logic has new platform capabilities that aim to make it easier to automate and manage application architectures that use containers, such as Docker, and orchestration software, like Kubernetes and Amazon EKS.
Modern applications are driving digital services that are reliant on continuous improvement practices to ensure their customers’ experiences rem...
Using AppDynamics for Kubernetes and CloudCenter 4.9 together
Wednesday, May 2, 2018 by Richard Harris
Cisco has announced Kubernetes support for AppDynamics and Cisco CloudCenter, enabling enterprises to quickly adopt Kubernetes in production, and create and modernize their applications for the multicloud era. Now, enterprises can easily harness the value of Kubernetes to help deliver better user experiences.Companies are rapidly adopting containers on the promise of in...
DNS security and why mobile app developers should care
Monday, February 5, 2018 by Richard Harris
DNSSEC is a DNS security extension specification for securing information provided by DNS. DNS has been a part of the global internet since the 1980s, but its authentication mechanisms are fairly weak. As a result, DNS is vulnerable to a form of attack called cache poisoning. Cache poisoning is a man-in-the-middle attack that implants false DNS information to redirect e...
Scaling container platforms on bare metal with HPE Synergy
Monday, January 22, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Portworx and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have announced a solution based reference configuration that allows enterprises of all sizes to deploy, scale, and manage stateful container workloads. This new solution enables IT teams to deploy a scale out container platform on bare metal using a combination of HPE Synergy composable system, Kubernetes and Portworx’s clou...
Diffusion 6.0 messaging platform launches
Friday, October 20, 2017 by Richard Harris
Push Technology has announced the release of Diffusion 6.0 - Push Technology’s data streaming and messaging platform is available on-premise, in-the-cloud, or in hybrid configurations. Speed, resiliency, and ease of scalability are the fundamental requirements for Mobile and IoT application development. Challenges created by unreliable and congested networks stand in th...
On the origin of applications: From monolith to microservices
Monday, July 31, 2017 by Pat Bakey
Computing and biology are often seen as existing on two separate planes: computing relies on order of operations and algorithms, while biology functions on organ systems and bodily processes (although, bio-computing is closing this gap). As different as they may seem, they hold a striking similarity in that they are both governed by natural selection - or in the case of...
The cloud needs a makeover survey says
Monday, July 3, 2017 by Richard Harris
Fugue, Inc., has released the results of its 2017 State of Cloud Infrastructure Operations Survey. The survey, fielded to over 300 IT operations professionals, executives, and developers, found that most respondents believe that the cloud is not living up to expectations because of compliance and security concerns, unexpected downstream costs, and the glut of cloud mana...
Analytics and data SDK released by 1010data
Friday, April 21, 2017 by Richard Harris
1010data, Inc. just released its improved application development Software Development Kits (SDKs), designed to support application development and integration across enterprise operations. With enhancements to its .NET and Java SDKs, as well as a new Python SDK, 1010data’s new tools enable developers to build powerful and scalable applications on top of the 1010data In...
Optimizing your app server performance really matters
Friday, February 3, 2017 by Richard Harris
As people are becoming more and more likely to turn to software as a means for entertainment, computer utility solutions, and everything in between, the load on a healthy business's servers can quickly max out. This can cause some major issues, i.e. leaving your customers suffering from horrible load times or even completely dead in the water. That's why a intuitiv...
Apcera Announces Support of New Open Source NATS Streaming Solution
Friday, July 15, 2016 by Richard Harris
Apcera has announced that it is providing support for the new NATS Streaming solution, a performant, secure and simple open source messaging platform. NATS Streaming offers features that enable support for new classes of applications such as IoT and big data analytics. The platform is tightly coupled but loosely integrated with NATS, providing enterprise grade features ...
New Skytap Driver for Docker Machine Offers Native Functionality
Tuesday, June 14, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Skytap has announced the new Skytap Driver for Docker Machine which extends the native functionality of Docker Machine to Skytap Cloud. With this new feature, companies can modernize traditional on-premises application architectures to container architectures within Skytap Cloud, without impacting any currently in-use environments.The new Skytap Driver enables applicati...
The Ultimate Impact of DevOps and Machine Learning in 2016
Monday, January 4, 2016 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with Christian Beedgen, CTO at Sumo Logic, to discuss impact of DevOps and machine learning for the upcoming year.As the co-founder and CTO of Sumo Logic, Christian has 15 years experience creating enterprise software architecture. Prior to Sumo Logic, Beedgen served as Chief Architect for event-based products at ArcSight and was co-founder of Gigato...
OpsClarity CEO Dhruv Jain Explains How He is Bringing Machine Learning to DevOps
Thursday, December 3, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
OpsClarity just announced the launch of its Intelligent Operations Platform, which offers a suite of tools for visualizing, understanding, and troubleshooting performance issues for complex web-scale applications and infrastructure. We recently spoke with Dhruv Jain, CEO and co-founder of OpsClarity about the new company and its platform.Prior to founding OpsClarity, Dh...
Red Hat Releases Three Different Studies on Mobile Development, Digital Leadership and OpenStack Adoption
Friday, May 29, 2015 by Richard Harris
Red Hat has recently published three different studies focusing on: mobile development trends, OpenStack enterprise adoption, and digital leadership.Mobile Trends SurveyA new mobile trends survey by Red Hat shows that - while mobile plays a role for 73 percent of organizations - nearly half of the respondents identify security (45 percent) and back-end integration(43 pe...
New Red Hat Cloud Suite for Applications Offers Open Source Integrated IaaS and PaaS Solution
Tuesday, May 26, 2015 by Richard Harris
Red Hat has announced Cloud Suite for Applications, an accelerated way to develop, deploy, and manage applications at scale using open source technologies. The new cloud offering helps enterprises reduce silos and enable more efficient OpenStack cloud deployments. Through the platform, Red Hat is offering IaaS, PaaS and management in an open environment, supported by Re...
New Relic to Add Docker Monitoring to Its Software Analytics Platform
Friday, May 8, 2015 by Richard Harris
New Relic has announced a new set of features to its software analytics platform designed to enable greater productivity for developers and agility for IT operations to meet business objectives. These updates reflect an industry shift to more modular, elastic cloud application architectures, built using containers, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and microservices.The New ...
Top Mobile Predictions for 2015 and Beyond
Tuesday, February 25, 2014 by Richard Harris
If you had a crystal ball and looked at 2015 and 2016 to see what will be the driving factors for mobile what would you see? Garnter analyst Nick Jones provides his top 10 predictions in a recent report.And what where they? Drumroll please:1) Multiplatform/Multiarchitecture AD Tools2) HTML53) Advanced Mobile UX Design4) High-Precision Location Sensing5) Wearab...
