Cloud-native applications get help from TIBCO updates
Friday, June 21, 2019 by Richard Harris
TIBCO Software Inc. announced new and enhanced capabilities for TIBCO Cloud Integration, TIBCO Cloud Mashery, and TIBCO Cloud Events offerings, harnessing the full power of the latest cloud-native and open source technologies. These capabilities directly address critical challenges faced by developers when working with cloud-native applications and enable orga...
Microsoft announces Visual Studio 2019
Wednesday, April 10, 2019 by Christian Hargrave
Microsoft announced general availability for Visual Studio 2019 – offering innovative and intelligent solutions that increase developer productivity. With Visual Studio 2019, we’ve focused on what’s important to developers by adding numerous productivity improvements, enhanced collaboration, and faster tooling that bring the best experience to develope...
Enterprise grade low code platform arrives from Kony
Thursday, March 14, 2019 by Richard Harris
Kony Inc has a lot to talk about these days. Along with recently being named a leader in The Forrester Wave: Low-Code Development Platforms for AD&D Professionals, Q1 2019, they also sent notice to us that they launched Kony Quantum, a new brand with enhanced capabilities for its next-generation low-code app development platform that aims to deliver rich digita...
Software engineer happiness matters
Tuesday, February 19, 2019 by Bart Copeland
In the never-ending quest for greater developer productivity, security and compliance usually seem like monkey wrenches in the machinery. These aspects of development are essential, but they can slow down the flow of work and frustrate developers.
Security and compliance dog the whole software development process, from the too-often-forgotten build engineering team, ...
Perforce to acquire Rogue Wave
Monday, January 28, 2019 by Christian Hargrave
Perforce Software backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P., announced it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Rogue Wave Software, an independent provider of cross-platform software developer tools and embedded components.
The combination of Perforce and Rogue Wave delivers a full suite of solutions that measurably improves developer productivity while fuelin...
Next generation low code platforms snub citizen developers
Tuesday, January 15, 2019 by Sumit Sarkar
Analysts have touted the growth of high productivity application development platforms which are attractive to many enterprises unable to find the necessary digital talent. These evolving platforms, also described as no or low code, focus on increasing productivity over traditional software development by expanding the pool of talent that can deliver apps. Many professi...
Node.js developer survey reveals unique environment insights
Tuesday, June 5, 2018 by Richard Harris
The Node.js Foundation announced the availability of its Node.js User Survey Report. Key findings of the survey reveal the benefits of Node.js expand over time, resulting most often in improved developer productivity and satisfaction and reduced development costs. Containers and cloud-native computing are on the rise with 58% of overall users noting they using Kubernete...
Hazelcast Jet 0.5 API unveiled to increases dev productivity
Wednesday, November 29, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Hazelcast has announced the 0.5 release of Hazelcast Jet - an application embeddable, distributed computing platform for fast processing of big data sets. New functionality in Hazelcast Jet 0.5 includes the Pipeline API for general purpose programming of batch and stream processing, and fault tolerance using snapshotting with the integrated Hazelcast IMDG. The overall f...
The impact of fast data on the modern application stack
Monday, October 9, 2017 by Richard Harris
Lightbend has announced its Fast Data Platform to help operationalize applications built for streaming data use cases. The new distribution aims to support how organizations design, build and run fast data applications, as new use cases like Real-Time Decisioning, Real-Time Personalization, IoT and others evolve the big data requirements from its legacy batch/Hadoop roo...
GitLab releases version 10 and pushes DevOps
Thursday, September 28, 2017 by Richard Harris
GitLab has announced the release of GitLab 10.0 providing modern developers additional capabilities to fully embrace the benefits of DevOps, specifically continuous integration and deployment, and Kubernetes based application development. Built for the enterprise, v10.0 delivers on input from their customers, as well as joint development from the growing community of ov...
DevOps for Big Data with Pepperdata
Wednesday, April 19, 2017 by Richard Harris
Despite huge investments in big data applications, there’s still a bottleneck as developers and operators try to find effective and efficient ways to adjust and correct their big data applications’ code. As a result, companies deploying applications suffer from decreased developer productivity and cluster efficiency - a critical flaw to keep up with today’s big data inf...
3 reasons low code software is helping IT departments be superheroes
Thursday, December 1, 2016 by Eduardo Cruz
Although we’ve long since entered the digital age, many organizations remain saddled with legacy IT systems, unable to keep up with the growing and ever-changing demands of the business. Not only that, with resources stretched, many IT departments are left with no choice but to prioritize day-to-day management over business innovation. And yet despite considerable chall...
Sencha opens up about SenchaCon, developer challenges, and platform updates
Tuesday, November 29, 2016 by Richard Harris
Sencha, a company that provides developers with frameworks, tools and services to help them build cross-platform web application experiences, recently held its sixth user conference SenchaCon, the largest universal application event in the world. We caught up with Sencha’s CEO Art Landro to learn more about two announcements the company made at SenchaCon: an enhanc...
Angular 2: What's good, what's bad, what's next
Thursday, October 13, 2016 by Richard Harris
Angular 2 is the full-platform successor to Google’s Angular 1 web application framework, made for building complex applications in browsers and beyond. First announced in October 2014, the complete and final version of Angular 2 was just released in September 2016. Angular 2 is a big step forward for the Angular framework, but how exactly is the second edition of the f...
Five Bitbucket Add-Ons to Make Your Life Easier
Thursday, September 29, 2016 by Tim Pettersen
Atlassian's Git and Mercurial hosting service, Bitbucket, has an app integration framework to go along with it's traditional REST APIs and webhooks. Bitbucket Connect allows developers to embed new pages and features directly within its user interface via securely signed iframes, and interact with Bitbucket using both REST and a client-side JavaScript API. It's kind of ...
Sencha Launches Ext JS 6.2
Monday, September 19, 2016 by Richard Harris
Sencha has announced the general availability of its flagship Ext JS 6.2 and core products Sencha Cmd 6.2, Sencha Architect 4.0, and the new Sencha Themer 1.0. With these latest releases, Sencha is introducing advanced data visualization capabilities along with new framework components, enhanced web application development tools, and solutions for faster application the...
Okta Releases New API Security Platform
Tuesday, September 6, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Okta has released a new platform to provide API security and access management for businesses that are building products, sharing data with partners, and enabling third-party developer ecosystems. In a statement on the introduction of the new platform, The Okta said, “The new API Access Management product solves modern challenges for both developers and IT. Every A...
JFrog Xray Offers Visibility for Container Images, Software Packages and Binary Artifacts
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
JFrog has announced the launch of JFrog Xray, which provides visibility into the contents of software components. JFrog Xray is a universal impact analysis product, to provide companies with understanding about their container images, software packages and binary artifacts, providing insight into the huge volume and variety of components that development teams share in ...
SAMSUNG ARTIK Cloud Offers New Open Data Exchange Platform for IoT
Friday, April 29, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Samsung today announced the SAMSUNG ARTIK Cloud, offering an new open data exchange platform designed to connect devices and applications. The platform provides open APIs and tools to securely collect, store, and act on any data from any connected device or cloud service. Using these APIs and tools, companies can bring new Internet of Things (IoT) solutions and ser...
BlueData Facilitates Real-Time Data Pipelines with Spark, Kafka, and Cassandra
Sunday, February 21, 2016 by Richard Harris
BlueData has launched a new Real-time Pipeline Accelerator solution for building real-time data pipelines with Spark Streaming, Kafka and Cassandra. The new platform provides the ability to develop and test applications for analyzing “Fast Data,” facilitating real-time or near real-time data that requires instant awareness, faster decision-making, and immediate action.B...
The Unsung Side Of Mobile Apps: Bootstrapping Development With Mobile Backend Services
Monday, December 7, 2015 by Mike Thompson
There’s more to a successful mobile app than a slick UI and cross-platform availability. Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS) makes developing compelling, full featured apps faster and easier.When building applications, every budding developer knows the temptation of fixating on the UI at the expense of algorithms, data structures and state management. After al...
In the Year Ahead, Enterprise Mobility Will Hinge on the Back End
Saturday, September 12, 2015 by Cathal McGloin
This year demand for enterprise mobility has escalated. With increasing volume and sophistication of mobile app projects, organizations must now pay special attention to how they integrate mobile apps with back-end systems in an efficient and affordable way. According to a recent survey of global customers at Red Hat, back-end integration and security ranked at the...
AnyPresences's Ambitious New Platform Release Offers API and IoT Functionality
Monday, August 31, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
AnyPresence has announced a major change in how the company will approach its product offerings as it moves its solutions beyond traditional MBaaS and API management towards a comprehensive solution for API-driven enterprise app development and IoT ecosystem enablement.This new direction enables rapid API development, direct connectivity to APIs from client SDKs, and ge...
IncrediBuild Releases Acceleration Solutions For Linux and Android
Tuesday, August 25, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
IncrediBuild has released IncrediBuild for Linux and Android which allows developers to visualize their build process with no vendor lock-in or need to change their development toolchain or workflow.This solution helps developers streamline development cycles by running development processes in a distributed fashion. IncrediBuild uses a “Docker-like” distributed contain...
Embarcadero Releases Major Updates for Its RAD Studio XE8 Connected App Platform
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Embarcadero Technologies has released a major update to its RAD Studio XE8 connected app platform. Included in this new release is the ability for Delphi/Object Pascal and C++ developers to leverage their Windows VCL applications and build expanded, innovative solutions for mobile, cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT).RAD Studio XE8 delivers connectivi...
A Review of Database Technologies and Frameworks for Mobile Developers
Wednesday, March 18, 2015 by Marcin Warpechowski
Mobile app developers are continuously feeling the pressure to bring apps to market and update them faster and faster. This demand will only continue in 2015 and beyond. Many mobile app developers need a hard-working database behind the scenes for processing real-time data like transactions, inventory or users. This article offers insight on how mobile developers can im...
New Relic Insight’s Platform to Provide Real Time Data for Mobile Apps
Friday, March 13, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
New Relic is extending its Insights’ platform capabilities beyond analyzing data from backend applications that run in a data center or in the cloud to now include real-time data generated by the mobile apps running on smartphones. The new functionality is currently in private beta.In addition to using data from the New Relic APM, New Relic Insights will be able to help...
IncrediBuild Boosts Mobile and Cross Platform Development Capabilities for Developers
Wednesday, January 7, 2015 by Richard Harris
When enterprises require Android compilation tasks and applications in keeping up with competition, IncrediBuild’s latest version 6.0 allows for more developer support for shared projects.Enterprise organizations have recognized that developers are working under extreme pressures to produce products across multiple platforms, IncrediBuild raises the bar for cross-platfo...
App Developers Can Launch Their Own Start up at AWS re:Invent
Wednesday, September 17, 2014 by Richard Harris
In 2013, five start-ups launched at Amazon Web Services re:Invent event and AWS is doing it again this year. For companies in stealth mode, it is an opportunity to use re:Invent to launch an AWS-powered mobile app or game to the world. For those that have already launched, the event can announce a new major feature. The application deadline is 5pm PST on Septe...
Magic Software Launches Mobile Enterprise App Accelerator Framework
Thursday, July 17, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Magic Software has launched the newest version of its multi-channel application development platform, Magic xpa 2.5, along with a new Mobile Accelerator Framework, both designed to improve the user and developer experience for mobile business apps based on Magic technology. Magic Software is a provider of software platforms for enterprise mobility, cloud appli...
New Telerik DevTools Update Focuses on ASP.NET Developer Productivity
Wednesday, June 25, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Telerik has made new mobile advancements to its DevCraft suite of UI controls. Telerik is now optimizing mobile development for ASP.NET projects by providing responsive, adaptive and elastic capabilities which mitigate the challenges of developing for multiple devices and screen sizes. The release also includes document processing and cloud capabilities for UI, as well ...
Oracle Announces Most Significant Java Update in the History of the Platform
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 by Richard Harris
Oracle has released Java 8, which they say is “the most significant Java technology release.” Oracle is announcing Java Platform, Standard Edition 8 (Java SE 8), Java Platform, Micro Edition 8 (Java ME 8) and the related releases of Oracle's Java Embedded products. JDK 8 is a production-ready implementation of the Java SE 8 Platform Specification, wh...
