Supercell increases stakes in Space Ape Games
Thursday, August 4, 2022 by Richard Harris
Supercell has invested an additional $37M to acquire a larger stake in mobile game developer and publisher Space Ape Games increasing its stake in the London studio from 62.6% to 75%. This is on top of their original $56.6M investment from 2017. They have also extended their line of credit by a further $50M, bringing Supercell’s total debt and equity inv...
Site reliability engineering adoption and best practices
Friday, June 17, 2022 by Jemiah Sius
Site reliability engineering (SRE) isn’t a new term or practice. The practice of applying software engineering skills and principles to operations problems and tasks would often happen even before "Site Reliability Engineer" was a defined job title. But organizing a proactive approach to building and maintaining software drives long-term success in ...
Mobile market 2021 highlights
Thursday, February 3, 2022 by Freeman Lightner
At the end of the year everyone was talking about the future and making predictions, but what about the highlights of 2021? Last year was rich in sensations, new names appeared on the market, and many industry giants cooperated to enhance their power or work on large-scale joint projects. Apptica compiled a selection of the most significant events, cases, and changes th...
4 Reasons Python is taking over the world
Friday, April 23, 2021 by Calvin Hendryx-Parker
Every engineer knows that the most important rule in the book is the one about using the right tool for the job. What’s “right” may be a touch subjective, however. What are you most comfortable with? What standards do you need to adhere to? Does your team have specific preferences? In software engineering, these questions and the multitude of programmi...
New app rendering tool lands from Applitools
Thursday, March 5, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Applitools Announces General Availability of Ultrafast Grid - the Fastest, Most Reliable and Cost-Effective Cross Browser Testing Platform Available Today
More than 50 Global Fortune 500 Applitools customers are already executing tests up to 70x faster on Chrome, Safari, Edge and Internet Explorer
Applitools, the leading provider of Visual AI for intelligent funct...
Increasing speed of delivery features
Monday, January 13, 2020 by Christian Hargrave
A recent survey by Split Software has revealed that organizations are delivering features faster, but many are still struggling with increased downtimes of apps and services. The informal survey consisted of more than 120 DevOps and software engineering professionals and was conducted during industry events from July through November 2019.
According to respondents, a...
NGINX gets new capabilities to help app teams develop and scale
Monday, October 15, 2018 by Richard Harris
NGINX has released new enhancements to the NGINX Application Platform - including new releases of NGINX Plus, NGINX Controller, and NGINX Unit. These new releases aim to improve NGINX’s solution in the application delivery controller (ADC) market, as well as introduce new solutions in the API management and service mesh markets. NGINX provides a single platfo...
AI test automation capabilities released for Eggplant suite
Tuesday, May 29, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Eggplant announced the latest enhancements to its Digital Automation Intelligence (DAI) Suite. The advancements support Eggplant’s mission "to use AI, machine learning, and analytics to optimize the digital experience, allowing teams to keep up with the pace of DevOps, and improve time to market and customer satisfaction."The latest product releases will enable Eggplant...
DevOps security gets a boost from CA Technologies
Wednesday, November 22, 2017 by Richard Harris
CA Technologies announced new enhancements to CA’s DevOps portfolio that deliver on the promise of faster software development and delivery. New releases in the Continuous Delivery portfolio and CA Digital Experience Monitoring accelerate and automate development and release, improve testing, and provide unprecedented visibility into digital experiences.“As companies in...
Splunk expands machine learning capabilities
Monday, October 2, 2017 by Richard Harris
Splunk Inc. has announced expanded machine learning capabilities across its product portfolio with the release of their Enterprise 7.0, IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) 3.0, User Behavior Analytics (UBA) 4.0 and updates to their Cloud platform. Splunk also introduced an updated suite of solutions that apply analytics and machine learning to fraud and cloud monitoring use ...
AppDynamics Developer Toolkit release for Spring is here
Thursday, April 6, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
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...
Docker for the Enterprise launched with a Certification Program
Friday, March 3, 2017 by Richard Harris
Docker has announced their Enterprise Edition (EE), a new commercial platform for enterprise development and IT ops teams that build, run, and operate business-critical applications in production at scale across the software supply chain. Comprised of a container runtime, with integrated and multi-tenant orchestration, security and management in addition to an ecosystem...
Why software is no longer being written from scratch
Tuesday, November 1, 2016 by Richard Harris
Application developers are increasingly reliant on open source component parts because pre-fabricated components speed up innovation and save developers the time (and money) of having to write code from scratch.But with 6.1% of component downloads containing a known security vulnerability it’s inevitable that defective parts will make their way into production – especia...
LUA, NodeJS, Ruby, and Go get open source enterprise support from ActiveState
Tuesday, November 1, 2016 by Richard Harris
ActiveState, the open source languages company, has announced the upcoming release of ActiveRuby, ActiveNode, ActiveGo, and ActiveLua. These new releases will include free community versions for the open source community, plus pre-compiled, tested, professional distributions for enterprise users. Enterprise users will also benefit from commercial support, indemnificati...
SourceClear launches integrations across Atlassian stack
Thursday, October 13, 2016 by Christian Hargrave
SourceClear is launching integrations across the Atlassian stack, including Bitbucket Pipelines, JIRA Server, JIRA Cloud, and Bamboo adding a critical layer of security to Continuous Delivery. In addition to Atlassian, SourceClear will bring secure continuous delivery to Travis CI, CircleCI, and CodeShip as well.These new integrations bring automated security checks int...
Splunk Harnesses Machine Learning for New Innovations
Tuesday, September 27, 2016 by Richard Harris
Splunk Inc. has released new versions of Splunk Enterprise, Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI), Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) and Splunk User Behavior Analytics (UBA). Available on-premises or in the cloud, the newest versions of Splunk solutions leverage machine learning to make it faster and easier to maximize the value machine data can deliver to organizations.A...
MobFox Releases New Ad SDK in Multiple Sizes for App Publishers
Tuesday, May 24, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
MobFox has released a new “built-to-fit" SDK for mobile app publishers, making its SDK available in multiple sizes - from 90K to 350K - to fit a publisher’s needs depending on the ad format they choose and other requirements. The full SDK offers enhanced support for video and audio ads and the lighter SDK reduces the time it takes for the publisher to install, thus maki...
VMware Launches New Functionality to Hybrid Cloud Management Platform
Sunday, February 14, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
VMware has updated its hybrid cloud management platform with the introduction of VMware vRealize Suite 7 offering new releases of VMware vRealize Operations, VMware vRealize Log Insight, VMware vRealize Automation 7 and VMware vRealize Business for Cloud 7. The suite's new product updates also offer new pricing and packaging enhancements.The VMware vRealize Suite ...
What's Wrong with Mobile Development and How to Fix It
Friday, October 30, 2015 by Joe Schulz
Between the proliferation of mobile devices, the differences in operating systems, and the complexity of application interactions, mobile developers are often caught between the desire to ensure robust functionality and the need to contain costs and meet deadlines. Do we code for the most popular devices and hope for the best? When we can’t stay abreast of releases...
Cisco Launches New Cloud Based TV Video Solutions
Monday, September 21, 2015 by Richard Harris
Cisco has launched new suite of cloud-powered video solutions to provide TV experiences to multiple screens, utilizing one cloud, on any access network, within the home and on mobile.The two new services, Infinite Home and Infinite Video, deliver full-featured linear, on-demand and time-shift TV video experiences as part of Cisco’s “Infinite” cloud video entertain...
Microsoft Releases New Windows 10 SDK Preview
Saturday, July 11, 2015 by Richard Harris
Hot off the press Microsoft has released its latest Windows 10 SDK Preview and the associated Windows 10 Mobile emulators to be used in conjunction with the Windows 10 Insider Preview. This Preview SDK Build includes bug fixes and changes to the API surface area. This latest release is part of Microsoft’s goal is to release a Windows 10 SDK preview that corresponds...
Windows 10 Developers Prepare For Takeoff
Friday, June 26, 2015 by Richard Harris
With Windows 10 being released on July 29, 2015 the Windows 10 team continues to provide updates on things that are new for developers and things you can do to get ready now.There will be more rapid announcements as the team will start releasing previews of the Windows 10 SDK more often to Windows Insiders. Expect to see more rapid releases of the Windows 10 SDK preview...
New Cross Platform Releases for Game Developers from Google’s Fun Propulsion Labs
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 by Richard Harris
Google’s Fun Propulsion Labs (FPL) has announced several new releases for game developers including an updated Pie Noon - Google’s open source Android TV game - with networked multi-screen action, and new libraries including the Pindrop audio library and the Motive animation system.With Pie Noon multi-screen action, FPL has used the NearbyConnections API from the most r...
HP Releases New Solutions for Mobile App Development and Management
Tuesday, April 7, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
HP has announced a number of new software releases that utilize HP's assets in big data analytics, application lifecycle management, IT operations management and security. Businesses can use HP's solutions to accelerate application delivery, test and monitor apps across multiple devices and operating systems, and provide mobile users with secure experiences.Measure the ...
Facebook Releases Marketing and Monetization Goodies for App Developers at F8
Friday, March 27, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
At the kickoff of its F8 developer conference, Facebook announced a broad number of products and tools to help developers build, grow, and monetize mobile apps.In attendance were more than 2,500 developers. Facebook announced that its developer community has doubled in size, and there are now hundreds of thousands of developers working with Facebook around the world wit...
Attend the Failure Workshops at GDC to Learn Why Some Developers Fail
Thursday, February 26, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
AT GDC there is a strong success bias – you are not going to hear a lot of companies trumpet their failures. Failure, however, can be often be more instructive than success. That’s why you might want to consider attending the GDC “Failure Workshop” and hear first hand experienced game developers who will speak candidly about those times when development didn't go well, ...
Why App Development Requires Continuous Quality
Friday, January 16, 2015 by Carlo Cadet
Mobile apps have drastically changed the way users interact with brands. Unfortunately, with the rapid pace of innovation, businesses are struggling to meet user expectations. As organizations approach these challenges, it’s the solutions which have proven to be elusive. In order to ensure application quality in the modern age of mobile, a new approach is required. ...
In Advance of CES, AT&T Announces Drive and AT&T Drive Studio Connected Car Initiatives at Its Developer Conference and Hackathon
Monday, January 5, 2015 by Richard Harris
AT&T’s Developer Conference and Hackathon had a decidedly connected slant which explains the company’s announcements on Monday as it moves forward with its AT&T Drive and AT&T Drive Studio connected car initiatives. These two programs are evolving to facilitate the ability for developers to work with automotive manufacturers to integrate apps.Highlights of t...
Machine Zone Spends $40 Million to Market Game of War and It Pays Off
Friday, December 12, 2014 by Richard Harris
The 2014 US App Store/Google Play marketplace review took a look at the times spent at #1. The charts listed reviews of both the Top Grossing charts and which titles received the top spots for over 90 percent of this year. The 2014 US App Store/Google Play marketplace review revealed that "Clash of Clans" held the top spot for over 90% of 2014 ...
Unity Creates QA Mini Site for Test Tools, Test Suites and Patch Releases
Monday, September 29, 2014 by Richard Harris
Unity has launched a new section on its website dedicated to the work and happenings in QA for the platform. The QA mini site is a one stop place for blogs, public test suites, the Unity Test Tools and the patch releases. The new Unity Test Tools page will provide links to the package, documentation and example projects for the tools. With these developers will be ...
VMware Workspace Suite Offers New Integrated Development Platform
Friday, August 29, 2014 by Richard Harris
VMware has launched VMware Workspace Suite, a new integrated platform for managing applications, data and devices. VMware Workspace Suite offers a single, integrated portal to access AirWatch by VMware mobile and content management solutions, and VMware Horizon. For end-users, the result is a unified experience across mobile and desktop devices, while IT gains a co...
Is Apple Cooking Something Up for September 9 I Say “Supersize My Order!
Thursday, August 28, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Multiple reports are coming out that Apple will be hosting a news conference on September 9. We haven’t heard anything official as of writing this, however that will obviously change.Apple has been amazingly quiet in August. Check out their press page and you’ll see 0 news releases in August. In July – 6 releases, in June – 4 releases, August – nada. But a little resear...
Famo.us for App Development: Going Beyond the Funding Hype
Wednesday, August 20, 2014 by Richard Harris
If we’ve seen one, we’ve seen a hundred news releases come across our email: “XYZ company has announced that it has received VC funding.” We always toss these, because really, do you care that some company (not yours) has received funding?So when Famo.us announced their recent $25 million in additional funding, you know where that announcement went. However, there has b...
Why Saas and Continuous Delivery Is a Match Made in Heaven for Mobile Apps
Tuesday, July 22, 2014 by Steven G. Harris
In recent years, application usage has evolved and grown tremendously. Unlike core IT systems (ERP, HR, etc.) that are under the close scrutiny of corporate IT, Software as a Service (SaaS) and now mobile applications come with very different requirements. What’s valuable and efficient today might not be what’s valued tomorrow: SaaS and mobile applications have to const...
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...
