Open source extensions from Timescale
Thursday, June 27, 2024 by Freeman Lightner
Timescale, the PostgreSQL cloud database company, has unveiled two open-source extensions, pgvectorscale and pgai, which significantly enhance PostgreSQL’s scalability and ease of use for AI applications. Licensed under the open-source PostgreSQL license, these extensions empower developers to build retrieval augmented generation, search, and AI agent applications...
AI cybersecurity impacts according to NetLib Security
Monday, December 18, 2023 by Richard Harris
This is an easy call to make: NetLib Security predicts that Artificial Intelligence - Generative AI - will continue to heavily impact the world of cybersecurity, upping the game for defensive players, while giving cybercriminals more tools on the offensive side.
2023 was a year in which AI seemed suddenly to be everywhere. Although AI is not a new field, ChatGPT and ...
AI performance monitoring from Datadog and Vertex AI
Thursday, November 16, 2023 by Richard Harris
Datadog, Inc., the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, announced an expanded strategic partnership with Google Cloud, which enables Google Cloud customers to proactively observe and secure their cloud-native and hybrid applications within Datadog’s unified platform. As part of the expanded partnership and integrations, Datadog is one of the fi...
MariaDB enterprise server helps you sleep at night
Thursday, June 20, 2019 by Richard Harris
MariaDB Corporation announced the release of MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.4, code-named “Restful Nights” for the peace of mind it brings enterprise customers. Databases are the backbone of critical business services used every day. A database failure can result in sleepless nights for everyone involved. The new MariaDB Enterprise Server includes added f...
Why Citus Data is donating 1 percent equity to PostgreSQL foundations
Monday, November 26, 2018 by Richard Harris
The distribution model for databases is shifting to the cloud. With this shift, the economics of open source communities are changing. One of the most important issues in modern software is building sustainable open source models in the age of the cloud.
A challenge with being an independent open source project, however, is financial. The PostgreSQL community is comm...
VMworld 2018 developer highlights
Wednesday, August 29, 2018 by Austin Harris
VMworld 2018 has launched from the dock, debuting a ton of new cloud technology that ranges from multi-cloud operations to relational database services. To celebrate the company’s 20th year anniversary, Pat Gelsinger, VMware CEO, and Ray O’Farrell, VMware CTO acquaint the audience with what superpowers it takes to make it in the world of technology.
The d...
GraphQL as a service platform launches by Hasura
Monday, July 23, 2018 by Austin Harris
Hasura launched their open source GraphQL Engine. A solution available that can instantly add GraphQL-as-a-Service onto existing Postgres-based applications - without the time-consuming task of writing backend code that processes GraphQL. Now front-end developers and enterprise application developers can get GraphQL and start working with it in minutes to build scalable...
Postgres support has been unvieled for Toad Edge
Thursday, June 21, 2018 by Austin Harris
Quest Software unveiled the commercial release of Toad Edge 2.0, which adds support for Postgres. Toad Edge enables developers and database administrators to reduce the time and effort required to develop, manage and maintain Postgres-based open source databases while helping produce optimal performance.
A recent report estimates that more than 70% of new in-house ap...
NoSQL database benchmark released by ArangoDB
Thursday, February 22, 2018 by Austin Harris
ArangoDB announced the latest findings of its open source NoSQL performance benchmark series. To enable vendors to respond to the results and contribute improvements, the company has published the necessary scripts required to repeat the benchmark. The goal of the benchmark is to measure the performance of each database system when there is no cache used. The benchmark ...
WhiteSource Bolt detects vulnerable open source components
Thursday, March 30, 2017 by Richard Harris
WhiteSource, a continuous open source security and compliance management company, has announced the launch of a new open source management tool integrated within the Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS) platforms - the WhiteSource Bolt (Bolt).Bolt is fully immersed within the VSTS and TFS products, so users can detect vulnerable ...
DOD releases PostgreSQL security technical implementation guide
Friday, March 24, 2017 by Richard Harris
Crunchy Data, a provider of open source PostgreSQL, has announced the publication of a PostgreSQL Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), making PostgreSQL the first open source database with a STIG. Crunchy Data collaborated with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to evaluate PostgreSQL against the DoD’s securi...
Alooma service launches to secure pipelines that stream data in realtime
Friday, January 27, 2017 by Austin Harris
Alooma, a data pipeline company, has announced the general availability of their newest service which creates secure pipelines that stream data in real-time from any source including databases, applications, APIs, etc. to cloud data warehouse platforms for faster business decision-making. Their solution replaces the decades-old batch uploading approach to data integrati...
Sencha Teams with Speedment to Improve Web Application Responsiveness
Friday, August 5, 2016 by Richard Harris
Sencha is now working with Speedment to help developers improve the performance of data-intensive web applications. Under the partnership, the companies are providing access to of Ext JS, Sencha’s JavaScript platform for building data-intensive, cross-platform web applications, and Ext Speeder from Speedment, a tool that can reduce time to market for Ext JS projects, wh...
Flynn Releases Open Source Platform for Deploying and Managing Web Applications and Databases
Friday, July 29, 2016 by Richard Harris
The team behind the Flynn, an open source platform for deploying and managing web applications and databases, has announced the availability of Flynn 1.0, the first version of the platform that is stable for production use.Three years ago the company hosted a crowdfunding campaign to build its open source platform as a service that could run databases as well as applica...
Crunchy Data Releases Set of Docker Containers and Kubernetes Services for PostgreSQL
Wednesday, June 29, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Crunchy Data has announced that it is open sourcing its Crunchy PostgreSQL Container Suite, a pre-packaged set of Docker containers and Kubernetes services for running and managing the PostgreSQL open source database in cloud native Kubernetes environments with a full set of management micro-services. PostgreSQL offers an open source, object-relational da...
Portworx Releases PXEnterprise Platform for ContainerDefined Storage in Production Environments
Friday, June 24, 2016 by Richard Harris
Portworx has released the PX-Enterprise platform offering a purpose-built, enterprise-class storage container-defined storage for containers used in production environments. The company says that by using PX-Enterprise, companies can cut the cost of traditional storage arrays and virtual machines by up to 70 percent. Portworx reports early success with application ...
A Chat with Andy LeCates About FileMaker 15 Platform
Tuesday, May 24, 2016 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with Andy LeCates with FileMaker to discuss the latest release of the FileMaker platform.ADM: FileMaker launched its new FileMaker 15 platform on May 10. Can you tell us a little bit about what that is?LeCates: The new FileMaker 15 Platform provides stronger essentials to make unique custom apps for your business that work seamlessly across iPad, iPh...
US Department of Commerce Opens Data Academy for DataDriven Decision Training
Tuesday, May 10, 2016 by Richard Harris
The US Department of Commerce is now offering the Commerce Data Academy to help educate and empower employees within the Department of Commerce to make data-driven decisions. The academy is tasked with enhancing the contribution of data to the economy by helping the 12 Bureaus of the U.S. Department of Commerce create and develop projects to advance the Department's mis...
Altova Updates Developer Tools for XML, SQL, and UML
Wednesday, October 7, 2015 by Richard Harris
Altova has released of Version 2016 of its MissionKit desktop developer tools and server software products including software for XML, SQL, and UML; workflow automation server products; and a cross-platform mobile development platform.This latest release of MissionKit introduces new functionality including a graphical JSON Schema editor, a MapForce Data Mapping Debugger...
HashiCorp Launches Vault Security Platform for Cloud Environments
Friday, May 1, 2015 by Richard Harris
HashiCorp has launched Vault, a new tool for securely managing secrets and encrypting data in-transit. From storing credentials and API keys to encrypting passwords for user signups, Vault is being offered as a new solution for security in cloud environments.Vault secures, stores, and tightly controls access to tokens, passwords, certificates, API keys, and other secret...
Embarcadero Releases Major Updates for Its RAD Studio XE8 Connected App Platform
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Embarcadero Technologies has released a major update to its RAD Studio XE8 connected app platform. Included in this new release is the ability for Delphi/Object Pascal and C++ developers to leverage their Windows VCL applications and build expanded, innovative solutions for mobile, cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT).RAD Studio XE8 delivers connectivi...
Progress Releases Updates to Telerik App Development Platform
Friday, January 16, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Progress has released the latest version of Telerik, its device and OS agnostic mobile development platform that combine UI tools and cloud services to build apps. This comes on the heels of the Progress’s announcement that it had finalized the purchase of Telerik AD in December 2014.The Telerik Platform offers tools and services that can be adopted individually or as a...
Heroku DX Offers New Cloud App Development Services
Tuesday, September 23, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Heroku is offering a new set of services that offer an new developer experience on the platform. It has introduced Heroku DX, which combines a new dashboard + metrics, database analytics and deployment features to the Heroku platform. Heroku is a salesforce.com company providing cloud app development services.Heroku DX includes:Heroku Dashboard + Metrics: Heroku Da...
DreamFactory Launches Updated MBaaS Services Platform for Mobile Enterprise App Development
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 by Richard Harris
DreamFactory has introduced DreamFactory 1.5, a MBaaS platform that allows developers to connect mobile apps with back-end services.The platform focuses on two areas. First, it lets developers securely connect mobile users with existing enterprise databases and control record-level data visibility. Second, it offers new scripting functionality to customize the...
SOASTA Announces the Launch of a New CloudTest
Wednesday, October 2, 2013 by Richard Harris
SOASTA today announced the launch of a new CloudTest, the industry recognized leading mobile and web app test automation solution, so that speed and quality no longer conflict when bringing a mobile app to market. ANAHEIM, Calif. StarWest Conference - October 2, 2013 SOASTA® Inc., the leader in cloud and mobile testing, today announced the latest release o...
List of Completely Free Programming Books
Thursday, September 26, 2013 by Richard Harris
Developers and programmers alike need resources, and if you are looking for a free way to dive into programming, I've got the source for you. Head on over to stackoverflow and check out this growing list of books online or offline that you can use to either get started with or sharpen your app development mastery.
Everything from C# essentials...
