Piecesjs framework for native web components
Sunday, November 3, 2024 by Richard Harris
In the ever-evolving landscape of web development, the quest for efficiency and creativity continues to drive innovation. A recent addition to this dynamic field is Piecesjs, a lightweight JavaScript framework designed to enhance the development of native web components. Built upon the principles of simplicity and creativity, Piecesjs offers a comprehensive suite of too...
Rise in cyberattacks is alarming folks
Friday, June 28, 2024 by Freeman Lightner
A recent study has uncovered a startling rise in cyberattacks from 2022 to 2023. Throughout 2023, the United States experienced an alarming 3,205 data breaches, marking a dramatic 78% surge from the 1,801 incidents reported in 2022.
The study conducted by data collection experts SOAX utilized data from the Identity Theft Resource Center on the number of data vi...
Swarm intelligence project DISCOVER US unites US and EU researchers
Friday, February 9, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
Launched on 1 January 2024, the Horizon Europe DISCOVER-US project is a 30-month project set to energize EU-US collaborative research around the computing continuum, distributed computing, and swarm intelligence. It will strengthen transatlantic research efforts in this area while reinforcing Europe’s position in cloud-to-edge computing, the Internet of Things (Io...
Cybersecurity performance optimization updates from Logpoint
Friday, February 2, 2024 by Freeman Lightner
Logpoint is releasing new capabilities to its Converged SIEM platform, enhancing threat detection and security operations and streamlining case management. Organizations can focus on essential security matters with the new capabilities by reducing workload, simplifying automation, and freeing up resources.
The new release delivers increased system stability and ...
Standalone 5G network rolled out from Cellcom and Parallel Wireless
Friday, May 5, 2023 by Richard Harris
Cellcom and Parallel Wireless announced the launch of their first-of-a-kind pilot, which will demonstrate the deployment of autonomous 5G SA core sites in Israel. This launch follows January's direct announcements of Cellcom's plans to establish a cloud-based 5G SA network.
Cellcom, the leading cellular provider in Israel, and Parallel Wireless have chosen to...
Open Source Summit welcomes Platform9 experts
Tuesday, August 13, 2019 by Richard Harris
Platform9 shares best practices for Kubernetes at scale on Bare Metal, with RDBMS, and with serverless apps at Open Source Summit and other industry events in August.
Cloud-native experts share tips and practical learnings for Kubernetes in the enterprise, Kubernetes on bare metal or with stateful MySQL databases, and optimizing the cost and performance of Serverless...
Self serve AI platform has launched
Monday, May 20, 2019 by Richard Harris
Xnor.ai has launched AI2GO, a self-serve platform that enables developers, device creators and companies to build smart, edge-based solutions without training or background in AI. AI2GO is available now and contains more than a hundred fully-trained models optimized to run on resource-constrained devices such as mobile devices, wearables, smart cameras, remote sens...
App localization done right
Thursday, December 27, 2018 by Neal Thoms
Mobile devices are everywhere, and so are the apps that run on them. Vast numbers of smartphones mean vast numbers of users – and irrespective of the language they speak or where they live, these users demand a wide range of specialized applications.
If you’re a mobile app developer, you may have already considered adapting your product to other markets. ...
Fission open source serverless framework gets updated
Wednesday, October 17, 2018 by Richard Harris
Platform9 just released updates to Fission.io - the open source, Kubernetes-native Serverless framework, with new features enabling developers and IT Operations to improve the quality and reliability of serverless applications.
Other new features include Automated Canary Deployments to reduce the risk of failed releases, Prometheus integration for auto...
The evolution of APMs
Wednesday, September 27, 2017 by Shlomi Gian
The World Wide Web became publicly available in August of 1991. Within a few years, PCs became an essential household item and short after it was already clear that the existing infrastructure was not made to scale. Web pages featuring "404 error" codes were a common aggravating flow in the user experience.To help the web scale and ease user frustration, CDN (Cont...
The hottest skills needed in the freelance job market to get hired
Thursday, May 4, 2017 by Richard Harris
Upwork has released its newest quarterly index of the hottest skills in the U.S. freelance job market. The Upwork Skills Index ranks the site’s 20 fastest-growing skills and is part of a quarterly series that sheds light on new and emerging skills freelancers are providing. According to a recent report, nearly half (49%) of hiring managers use freelancers to access skil...
NoSQL provider Couchbase releases a new data platform
Friday, February 17, 2017 by Richard Harris
Couchbase, Inc. announced a new release of their data platform that powers web, mobile and IoT (Internet of Things) applications for digital businesses. The enhanced product suite now provides easier global application deployments, advanced security capabilities and greater development flexibility, and includes Server 4.6, Sync Gateway 1.4, Kafka Connector 3.0 and Spark...
The ROI of Better Software Process Management
Saturday, May 28, 2016 by Don Vilsack
Software consultants and experts frequently tout the benefits of using modern solutions and tools to manage software processes more effectively. These assertions are more than salesmanship—they are backed by solid evidence in the form of real-world case examples. In many cases, participating organizations may not want their confidentiality compromised, so organizations ...
SOASTA Releases Updates to Digital Performance Management Platform
Tuesday, May 17, 2016 by Richard Harris
SOASTA has released the latest version of its Digital Performance Management (DPM) Platform, offering advancements in front-end web and mobile performance optimization and support for open source tools and frameworks such as JMeter.SOASTA’s DPM platform includes CloudTest for integrated load testing, mPulse for real user monitoring, TouchTest for mobile performance and ...
BlueData Updates Platform to Deploy Big Data Infrastructure and Applications
Wednesday, March 23, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
BlueData has released updates to its BlueData EPIC software platform provides enterprise-class security and quality of service (QoS) for multi-tenant Big Data deployments. With the release BlueData continues to add support for new applications and frameworks to provide a Big-Data-as-a-Service (BDaaS) environment on-premises.BlueData’s EPIC platform provides the ability ...
Java Based WildFly 10 is Now Available
Wednesday, February 17, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Java EE 7 application server platform WildFly 10 (formerly JBoss Application Server) is now officially complete and available for download adding a number of capabilities and improvements to the powerful, lightweight, open-source application server.WildFly 10 implements the Java EE 7 Full and Web Profile standards. This release includes all the major features from WildF...
Datagres Latest Release Offers New Application I-O Analytics
Tuesday, October 27, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Datagres has released updates to its PerfAccel Analytics Platform, a SaaS offering that supports companies with data center architecture that leverages Intel-based servers with PCIe- and NVMe-based fast storage capability for low latency and the high throughput. With the latest platform release Datagres provides the ability to offer intelligent purchase decisions a...
How Cloud Helps Agility
Wednesday, September 9, 2015 by Eric Naiburg
Most software development groups, whether they are within large Fortune 500 enterprises or the small shop around the corner, are looking to become more agile. You’ll notice I said the word “more” as many are already following a large portion of the elements of agility and are much further along than they were just a few years ago, but the goal to improve is always...
Game Developers See Added Performance with Wwise Audio Engine Updates
Tuesday, September 1, 2015 by Richard Harris
Recently Audiokinetic released the latest version of its Wwise audio engine for interactive audio content used by the interactive media and gaming industries. It features an optimized run-time sound engine and an audio authoring application for creating and managing game audio content.This latest version, Wwise 2015.1, focuses on runtime performance optimizations and au...
New Release of Intel Graphics Performance Analyzers Supports Windows and Android
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Intel has released the latest version (Release 1 2015) of its Graphics Performance Analyzers (GPA) which offers an analysis and optimization tool for Windows targets - including Intel Atom processors - from a Windows host. It also supports the latest generations of Intel Core and Intel Atom processors for applications developed for Windows or Android.Intel GPA provides ...
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 ...
Imagination Technologies Releases PowerVR SDK v3.4 Including Support for Android 5.0 and WebGL
Thursday, October 23, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
The PowerVR SDK v3.4 is the latest release of Imagination Technologies software development kit which offers a full range of licensable multimedia technologies across the areas of graphics, ray tracing, video and vision.Key features of this release include the addition of the latest compilers for PowerVR Series6 (FP16 and FP32) and Series6XT GPUs to PVRShaderEditor, pro...
Conversation Rate Optimization (CRO) and How It Contributes to Mobile App User Engagement
Sunday, September 21, 2014 by Sriram (a) Ram
What is CRO and why does a company needs to focus on it?Conversion is making your visitors perform an action which you want them to perform. Depending upon your purpose, the action can be anything, an online purchase, subscription, user enrollment, a download or just spending more time in your app.Monitoring the conversion figure, analyzing it and optimizing it to achie...
Differences between Testing and Monitoring App Performance
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 by Ofer Ronen
A recent story by Pulse.io compares testing and monitoring mobile app performance, and why both are important aspects of mobile app development.There are two stages associated with optimizing app performance; one stage is before the app is released (i.e. testing performance), and the other after it is released (i.e. monitoring performance). The ...
Appurify Launches Appurify Mobile Platform (AMP) – the First Ever Solution to Optimize Both Quality and Performance of Mobile Apps and Websites
Tuesday, February 4, 2014 by Richard Harris
AMP
Allows Developers to Test the Quality and Performance of Mobile Apps and
Websites Pre-Release, On Any Platform and Device, At ScaleAppurify, offering a unique approach to mobile performance optimization today
announces the Appurify Mobile Platform (AMP). Appurify is the first solution of
its kind that allows developers to immedi...
Appurify Launches Public Beta of Mobile Test Automation Platform
Wednesday, September 25, 2013 by Richard Harris
Company announces product collaborations with Sencha and Adobe PhoneGap, releases free SDK for mobile developers to streamline test creation and debuggingSAN FRANCISCO—September 25, 2013—Appurify, the pioneer in mobile test automation on real devices, today announced the public beta of its platform for testing, run-time debugging and performance optimization of mobile a...
