Scaling applications for COVID-19 spikes
Thursday, July 23, 2020 by Nikita Ivanov
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to shelter-in-place and lockdown orders that are dramatically changing both business and consumer behavior. Online activity is soaring, and many businesses, such as those in food delivery, ecommerce and remote access and collaboration services, are experiencing exploding demand for their services. Many of these businesses have struggled to ...
API security testing just got easier with 42Crunch's new scanner
Thursday, March 21, 2019 by Richard Harris
42Crunch officially released the 42Crunch API Platform, an API security cloud platform to discover vulnerabilities in APIs and protect them from attack. The 42Crunch Platform can protect SaaS, Web, or IoT APIs, as well as microservices.
This follows the launch of the free API Contract Security Audit tool at APISecurity.io earlier this month. The tool helps API d...
Progressive web apps vs native apps: Showdown in 2018
Thursday, March 1, 2018 by Andrew Gazdecki
Apps have become an integral part of any brand's digital marketing efforts. You'd be hard-pressed to find a company that hasn't, at the very least, thought about developing an app. It would be even more difficult to find a company willing to deny the tremendous impact that an app can have on a brand's engagement and customer experience.
Given th...
Kinetica and NVIDIA launch business intel platform
Monday, October 2, 2017 by Richard Harris
Kinetica has announced a new solution combining the power of NVIDIA DGX Station and Kineticas GPU-accelerated database to speed up Tableau queries, providing users the ability to make faster data-driven decisions. Available immediately from NVIDIA and Kinetica business partner InterWorks, the new solution allows customers of Tableau to modernize their underlying datab...
Mobile data speeds and understanding TCP
Friday, June 23, 2017 by Aaveg Mittal
Mobile networks, like most others, rely on transmission control protocol (TCP) for data transfer. But this decision often produces poor results. TCP is a protocol meant for stable networks - and all too often, mobile is anything but stable, with unreliable and often bottlenecked connections that conflict with TCP methodologies like slow starts on transfers.But while TCP...
The NBC TODAY show app makeover from ObjectiveC to Swift
Tuesday, January 10, 2017 by Richard Harris
The TODAY show has created a sleek new mobile app to share a mix of the best moments from the good old days, to those fresh off-the-press stories.
They have covered everything from the fall of the Berlin Wall, to the inauguration of every president since Harry Truman. And now, the show TODAY show team wants to share all of those historical memories with its vie...
Flurry's Insights on the "7 year itch" and What it Means to Developers
Wednesday, April 20, 2016 by Richard Harris
Chris Klotzbach, Director Flurry from Yahoo, reached out to us to talk about the affect of “seven year itch” on the mobile industry, focusing on how Flurry has seen mobile growth plateau over the last 7 years.ADM: At your Mobile Developer Conference in February, Flurry shared that mobile growth is plateauing. Can you elaborate on that more?Klotzbach: In 2015, overall ap...
Continuous Integration Is a Must Have for DevOps
Tuesday, March 22, 2016 by Lubos Parobek
The need to ship code faster continues to be priority for software development teams everywhere. In fact, a recent survey report shows 46 percent of developers and testing professionals say they want to deploy software even faster than they currently can. DevOps has emerged as a modern approach in driving more frequent, higher quality releases. What makes DevOps di...
Android Fragmentation Continues to Challenge App Developers
Tuesday, August 18, 2015 by Richard Harris
Is your Android app ready to take on over 24,000 different devices? According to its most recent report on Android fragmentation, OpenSignal tracked the downloads of the OpenSignal app over the last two months and found over 24,000 distinct devices have access to a developer’s Android app, making optimization a nightmare. The company reports that in two years Android fr...
Notice From Our Editor: Why Some Article Links Are Not Working on Our Website
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 by Richard Harris
I am not only the editor of App Developer Magazine and our associated content across our media property, I also am a developer and webmaster for our entire platform which is another set of responsibilities entirely. We host our web, email, and application servers in-house. I simply prefer the advantages of internal control vs outsourcing and for me the benefits out...
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