Explosion of AI based tools is coming
Thursday, January 26, 2023 by Richard Harris
Rachel Obstler, Micha Hershman, and Mona Popli from Heap explain why we should expect to see an explosion of AI tools in 2023, how companies can focus on user behavior by investing in tools that show what visitors do, and why we will witness a revolt against using HiPPO for driving decisions, plus a lot more of their 2023 predictions below.
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SRE hiring trends
Thursday, January 6, 2022 by Richard Harris
Ashley Stirrup, COO at Shoreline.io shares his 2022 predictions about the death of the Runbook, the rising cost of outages and SRE hiring trends.
Prediction #1: The death of the Runbook
In the coming year, we will see runbooks fuse out. Our team has been surprised in the last few months with how infrequently people have had true Runbooks. Runbooks are a great plac...
JOIN 2019 conference details released
Friday, September 13, 2019 by Richard Harris
Looker has announced details for JOIN 2019, its annual three-day conference designed to offer a unique opportunity to explore the latest in practical data skills, network with fellow data enthusiasts and engage with leaders across the data community. In-depth sessions will be led by industry experts from companies including Slack, Namely, Chicago Cubs, WW...
How to choose an Android HTTP Library
Monday, June 5, 2017 by Leanid Vovk
Today almost every Android app uses HTTP/HTTPS requests as the main transport for transferring data. Even if you're not using HTTP directly, you may be using multiple SDKs that rely on HTTP for networking, such as analytics, crash reporting and ads. So it’s fair to say that HTTP is the ubiquitous, and perhaps even obvious, choice for data transfers. But choosing HTTP in...
3 things you need to know to make Agile software development work
Monday, November 21, 2016 by Christina Lynch
Traditionally, software development follows the Waterfall framework whereby a product is produced sequentially over a series of phases of construction. Waterfall’s big drawback is how tedious it can be for developers, and how unresponsive it is to change. This is a major issue in today’s world where technology is advancing at such a rate that resistance to c...
Don't Settle When It Comes to Enterprise Search Platforms
Friday, July 24, 2015 by Mike Miranda
No company should try to operate for very long without an enterprise search platform. With so many options out there, though, you could be confused about which one is worth a spot in your organization’s budget. Let’s look at two very common workarounds some have tried, and then we will talk about why you must go with a reputable developer when you make your final d...
AppDynamics Offers New Application Performance Monitoring Platform for Microservices
Wednesday, June 10, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
AppDynamics is introducing a new application performance management (APM) offering designed for enterprises incorporating microservices in their application architecture. This new offering provides end-to-end monitoring for microservices architectures, including the ability to trace transactions across hundreds of microservice calls in production environments.The introd...
RoboVM Lets Developers Use Java to Build iOS Apps Using native UI’s With Full Hardware Access
Thursday, April 2, 2015 by Richard Harris
RoboVM Lets Developers Use Java to Build iOS Apps Using native UI’s With Full Hardware AccessRoboVM has released the first stable version of its coding platform which lets developers reuse Java language and tools skills to build iOS Apps using native UI’s and with full hardware access.RoboVM is setup as a platform with multiple components:- The ahead-of-time (AOT) compi...
Don’t Strike Out: Learn to Successfully Pitch Your App to the Media
Wednesday, June 25, 2014 by Richard Harris
As one of the top developer news sites worldwide we receive hundreds of news releases from companies within the mobile app industry that are interested in having our media property cover their news.With that kind of volume, we have to quickly scan information we receive for the topics we feel are most interesting to our audience. The ones that stand out have the best ch...
Eclipse Shoots for the Moon with Luna Release
Wednesday, June 25, 2014 by Richard Harris
The Eclipse Foundation has released Eclipse Luna which includes official support for Java 8 in the Java development tools, Plug-in Development Tools, Object Teams, Eclipse Communication Framework, Maven integration, Xtext, Xtend, Web Tools Platform, and Memory Analyzer. The Eclipse compiler includes language enhancements, search and refactoring, Quick Ass...
How did Facebook speed up it's new app
Thursday, December 13, 2012 by Richard Harris
Facebook released an update to it's Android mobile app and everyone is taking notice of how much faster it is. So how'd they do that?They completely wrote the app largely in native Android code. The previous version was a hybrid of native and web code. They also reduced garbage collection while using the app which helped it's overall memory usage. The developer tea...
