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The Great App Purge Googles Quality Overhaul

Wednesday, June 4, 2025 by Richard Harris

In early 2025, the tech world was rocked by a revelation that caught even seasoned app developers off guard: Google’s Play Store had lost nearly half of its apps in the span of just over a year. What seemed at first to be a quiet pruning of low-value software turned out to be a full-blown purge, 47% of apps had vanished. A platform that once boasted the largest ca...

Will AI solve developers productivity issues

Tuesday, June 20, 2023 by Richard Harris

To follow up on our previous survey about low-code and no-code tools, we decided to run another short survey about tools specifically for software developers, including, but not limited to, GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT. We’re interested in how "developer enablement" tools of all sorts are changing the workplace. Our survey showed that while these tool...

How app development is evolving

Wednesday, March 15, 2023 by Richard Harris

Smartphone applications are a ubiquitous part of modern life, we talk to friends, consume media and program our daily life using software available in the palm of our hands. Mobile app functionality has steadily become more advanced and developers have to continuously push the envelope to secure a meaningful segment of the market share. There’s an average of 3,...

SaaS company receives $27M in funding

Monday, November 15, 2021 by Austin Harris

Swimm announced a $27.6 million Series A funding round to enable engineering teams to create documentation that is always up to date. The round, which brings Swimm's total funding to $33.3 million, was led by New York-based global venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners, with participation from Dawn Capital, alongside existing seed investors Pitango...

Developer control plane released from Ambassador Labs

Monday, August 2, 2021 by Freeman Lightner

Ambassador Labs, the cloud-native developer experience provider, announced the Ambassador Developer Control Plane 1.0 (DCP), the company’s new managed developer control plane solution that lets developers code, ship, and run apps using Kubernetes faster and easier than ever before. Ambassador DCP provides a new managed cloud UI and integrated toolchains built enti...

Faster customized chat experiences announced from Sendbird

Thursday, April 22, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger

Sendbird unveiled its latest tools for developers to bring industry-leading chat capabilities into their applications. Sendbird’s new Flutter SDK makes it easy for developers to build chat in Flutter applications. Because Flutter apps can extend across multiple platforms with a single code base, time to market to launch Sendbird Chat can be dramatically decreased....

CI and CD Can Make the Difference for Your Business

Thursday, November 19, 2020 by Freeman Lightner

Corporate leaders expect development teams to produce innovative, high-quality, highly secure, agile applications that are instantly available on multiple platforms with a seamless user experience. In this software-centric era, DevOps, continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) — three milestones on the path to organizational improvement — h...

Developer Hub announced by Fastly

Tuesday, May 19, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger

Fastly, Inc announced the launch of its new Developer Hub, a central place for developers to easily access all the tools they need to build fast, scalable and secure modern applications on the Fastly edge cloud platform. Housed within the Developer Hub is a testing sandbox, ready-to-deploy code snippets, and a growing repository of structured tutorials, reference materi...

Universal source code search engine emerges

Friday, November 22, 2019 by Richard Harris

Sourcegraph announced a new collaboration with GitLab, along with the world’s first universal source code search engine. The company has experienced exponential growth fueled by its expanding community of over 10,000 paid developers and tens of thousands of free open source developers who actively use its platform. “GitLab and Sourcegraph are both oriente...

Oculus Connect 6 announcements

Thursday, September 26, 2019 by Richard Harris

Oculus Connect 6 unveiled Facebook Horizon, an interconnected and ever-expanding social VR world where people can explore new places, play games, and build communities - launching in beta in 2020. They announced hand tracking on Oculus Quest, which will enable natural interaction in VR using your own hands, all without the need for a controller, external sensors, gloves...

Data security platform from Virtru is here

Tuesday, August 13, 2019 by Austin Harris

Virtru, a data protection platform provider that stands at the intersection of security and privacy, announced the Virtru Developer Hub, a single development portal to integrate data protection capabilities and ensure the privacy of sensitive data. Now, developers can embed platform-agnostic protection into their applications or connected devices in just a few line...

CBS partners with Unity to provide an AR ad solution

Monday, July 1, 2019 by Richard Harris

CBS Interactive has partnered with Unity Technologies to offer advertisers the ability to build and scale augmented reality campaigns across a wide range of CBS Interactive’s mobile apps, including CBS Sports, CBS News, CNET, GameSpot and TV Guide. “Through the introduction of new ad formats like AR, we are continuing to create meaningful moments for CBS ...

RapidAPI raises $25M to continue scaling API marketplace

Thursday, June 20, 2019 by Richard Harris

RapidAPI announced that it has raised $25 million in Series B financing. The funding round is led by M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund), with participation from DNS Capital, and existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Green Bay Capital. The round brings total funding to date to $37.5 million. Since its Series A funding announcement in March 2018, RapidAPI expand...

Face recognition system integrated AR glasses

Wednesday, June 12, 2019 by Austin Harris

Vuzix Corporation, together with NNTC, announce iFalcon Face Control Mobile, a fully autonomous AI-powered face recognition system integrated with Vuzix Blade Smart Glasses. The iFalcon Face Control mobile solution using the Vuzix Blade was demoed at the Minister of Interior Innovation Summit in Abu Dhabi in February. Approximately 50 Vuzix Bla...

ThirdEye has a new developer program

Monday, June 10, 2019 by Richard Harris

ThirdEye Gen who creates augmented and mixed reality (MR) enterprise solutions, and is the creator of the super-small MR glasses (called X2) is now one of the first companies to offer a unique partnership opportunity for individual developers or large AR/VR software companies. After recognizing the need for more financial accessibility and support am...

Apps from maps using location intelligence is a whole new world

Tuesday, March 26, 2019 by Richard Harris

Technically a map is defined as a diagrammatic representation of an area of land or sea showing physical features, cities, roads, etc. As soon as we view a map, we inherently start turning it into information by analyzing its contents and finding patterns, assessing trends, and making decisions about what we are seeing. Creating apps and software that use map informa...

A serverless search engine for Data Scientists and Developers emerges

Friday, March 22, 2019 by Richard Harris

Rockset announced the general availability of a cloud service that allows developers and data scientists to put complex data sets to use in minutes instead of weeks. Current trends in technology - smart devices, digital lending, fraud detection, omnichannel retail, machine learning, microservices, and real-time business dashboards - all require clean...

National Geographic just updated their app

Monday, January 14, 2019 by Richard Harris

National Geographic just launched a new mobile app that is available in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store to customers in the U.S. and Canada. Compatible with both Android and iOS smartphones and tablets, the app provides users with a personalized digital experience that includes access to the National Geographic magazine archives, an immense photo library, digi...

DesignCon 2019 is coming

Monday, October 29, 2018 by Austin Harris

DesignCon announced its 2019 conference schedule, which will feature more than 100 sessions across 15 tracks covering the most important topics within the high-speed communications and semiconductor communities. DesignCon 2019 takes place January 29-31, at the Santa Clara Convention Center. DesignCon’s conference content is curated by 99 seasoned engineers a...

DNA powered apps get new developer tools from Helix

Tuesday, October 23, 2018 by Richard Harris

Helix, the company which owns and operates one of the world’s largest genome / exome sequencing labs in the world, announced a new DNA Product Studio. It's a set of tools to make it easier for partners like Mayo Clinic, National Geographic and InsideTracker to name a few, to develop new consumer genetic tests. They hope Helix’s DN...

Unreal Engine Marketplace says it will take less developer revenue

Wednesday, July 18, 2018 by Richard Harris

Epic Games has just made a sweeping change to the Unreal Engine Marketplace, whereby creators on the store will now receive 88% of their product sales, "an increase from the common 70% / 30% split of other digital stores." The Unreal Engine Marketplace is a store targeting the Unreal Engine community, and enabling game developers to purchase digital co...

Why Kotlin language use is skyrocketing

Tuesday, July 10, 2018 by Richard Harris

Kotlin, the Java based language that titles itself as "The Statically typed programming language for modern multiplatform applications" is alive and kicking as revealed in a new report from Pusher who says there is "exponential growth in Kotlin adoption." Kotlin originated at JetBrains, the company behind IntelliJ IDEA, in 2010, and has been ...

The network is now open for developers

Monday, July 9, 2018 by Kanwal Sarwar

A year ago, Cisco launched the most ambitious network re-think: the intent-based networking offering, Cisco DNA, and its centerpiece control software, DNA Center. It treats every network device - be it wired, wireless, or wide-area - as part of a unified fabric, giving IT a simpler, more cost-effective way to take control of one of their businesses’ most valuable ...

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...

DeveloperWeek 2018 roundup

Thursday, March 22, 2018 by Badri Rajasekar

DeveloperWeek 2018, held recently in the SF Bay Area, is part of the largest series of completely developer-focused events in the world, with conferences also held in New York and Austin. It is a testament to the fact that “software rules the world” that around 8000 developers turned up for various parts of DeveloperWeek, which included a large two-day Hackathon, a fren...

Diversity of thought is key to successful dev teams

Wednesday, November 29, 2017 by Steve Davis

Could a philosophy graduate be your next CTO? If the latest trend in developer talent is anything to go by, the traditional route to developer success could soon be blown wide open.The typical view of “engineers” creating tomorrow’s technology today is of hoodie-wearing Ivy League computer science graduate geniuses, toiling away on code. That stereotype is not without j...

The Gates Foundation chats about Mojaloop

Wednesday, November 1, 2017 by Richard Harris

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has released new open-source software for creating payment platforms that will help unbanked people around the world access digital financial services. The software, called Mojaloop, establishes a blueprint for connecting today’s financial services sector and can be used to overcome the barriers to interoperability that banks and ...

Bugsee crash reporting platform gets all new integrations

Wednesday, September 27, 2017 by Richard Harris

Bugsee has announced new developer-friendly features including instant feedback, application health assessment, and new integrations with popular mobile development frameworks, bug trackers and collaboration tools. These enhancements underscore the company's mission to arm mobile app developers with the information needed to find and fix pesky bugs right at their finger...

Build a mobile API ecosystem that is high performing and reliable

Saturday, September 2, 2017 by Shlomi Gian

Application Program Interfaces (API's) represent an effective way to build and manage mobile services. By using API's - a set of routines, protocols and tools for building software applications - application developers no longer have to buy technology software or hardware. Instead, they can simply plug into a growing open ecosystem of API-driven services. It is simple t...

3 new tools released by Red Hat

Friday, August 18, 2017 by Richard Harris

Red Hat has released all new developer tools, available on multiple platforms. This collection of tools has been assembled into an easy-to-use installer to help software developers quickly and easily put together a development environment to create containerized enterprise Java apps by installing OpenShift on their desktop. The Developer Tools Installer will automatical...

AppDynamics Developer Toolkit release for Spring is here

Thursday, April 6, 2017 by Austin Harris

AppDynamics, a Cisco company and a application intelligence company, is planning on a Spring ‘17 release, including the AppDynamics Developer Toolkit and major updates to Enterprise iQ and Business iQ. The new releases are aimed at giving application teams better abilities to deliver impactful customer experiences.In our digital-first world, where quality and performanc...

Why continuous delivery is key for developer career success

Monday, January 30, 2017 by Martin van Vliet

When people talk about Continuous Delivery, it’s usually in the context of how it improves the software delivery process and contributes to generating business revenue. Both are true and valid points, but they don’t directly address the opportunities for career growth Continuous Delivery offers for developers. But keep in mind that Continuous Delivery is not a flash in ...

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...

Pyze is leveling the playing field so mobile and web app publishers can compete

Thursday, December 15, 2016 by Richard Harris

While mobile channels constituted over $1 billion in 2016 Black Friday retail sales and web channels over double this amount in revenue, one company looks to aide users in harnessing that market potential in a whole new way.Pyze is an intelligence and marketing platform that enables mobile and web app publishers the ability to organically grow users by automating and pe...

The developer shortage is real and it's going to hit the cloud market real soon

Monday, November 7, 2016 by Richard Harris

Global research (across 8 geographies and with nearly 900 respondents) made something crystal clear - the developer shortage is real and it’s going to hit the cloud market really hard, really soon. And the drain is coming from a surprising place -Global 2000 businesses not traditionally known as IT companies. A majority of companies (64 percent) see the g...