BPM self contained apps to improve agility and competitiveness
Tuesday, April 18, 2023 by Pablo Alonso de Linaje
The needs and objectives of business evolve fast, and continuously, in a competitive environment. This places a heavy demand on enterprise IT teams to develop and deliver and change business applications rapidly.
BPM self-contained applications offer a new approach to business process management (BPM) process-based applications. This approach aims to simpli...
Improving security posture with static application security testing
Friday, February 12, 2021 by Tim Jarrett
Amid the worldwide pursuit of digital transformation, the software has seen a meteoric rise, and application security has become paramount. As more companies become software-centric, they publish more applications, increasing the risk vulnerable code will be released. To help reduce this risk, static application security testing (SAST) can help dev teams find and fix we...
All things Java
Friday, January 10, 2020 by Richard Harris
In an age when there is a constant demand for new, especially when it comes to technology, some things continue to stand the test of time. Java, for example, has been around for decades, but it is still the go-to programming language for untold numbers of developers. In fact, the language has never fallen below No. 2 on the Tiobe Index, and as of August 2019, it was No....
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...
What if we never had to look at code to make an app
Monday, May 7, 2018 by Richard Harris
I find it humorous and a little dissatisfying that programming is sometimes defined as; “the action or process of writing computer programs ”, as if we are just sitting down to write a short story!So here is my definition of programming. Programming is a complex set of engineered problem-solving ideas from the widespread neural network of the brain, that gets translated...
Oracle brings database and tools to Docker store
Friday, April 21, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Oracle announce that it is collaborating with Docker to release its flagship databases, middleware and developer tools into the Docker Store marketplace via the Docker Certification Program. Together, Oracle and Docker want to enable developers to quickly build cloud-native applications using Docker Enterprise Edition as their container platform. The Docker Certificatio...
Comparing server virtualization and containers
Monday, November 14, 2016 by Richard Harris
Apcera is a San Francisco-based company building the next-generation container management platform, and they believe that cloud computing is an ever-evolving way of interfacing with technology. With Apcera’s platform, they aim to solve the hard problems that enterprises face in embracing the new world of containers to unlock the potential of modern architectur...
Nimbix Adds Docker Integration to JARVICE Platform
Friday, September 23, 2016 by Ron Beaman
Nimbix just announced a new capability, PushToCompute, a method for rapid cloud deployment and monetization of containerized compute intensive applications. This capability is built into the JARVICE platform which powers the Nimbix Cloud.Through the added feature on the JARVICE platform, developers are able to import the latest version of their application int...
New Rapid IoT Development Kit from Telit Offers Builtin Cellular Connectivity
Monday, September 5, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Telit has released a new Rapid IoT Development Kit with built-in cellular connectivity and integration with the Cloud-based Telit IoT Portal. The kit can be used to develop standalone IoT prototypes or as a cellular, cloud-ready plug-in for open Maker platforms. The new portal lets IoT developers connect and manage the kit, and offers the ability to secur...
Chef Releases New Open Source Application Automation Platform
Tuesday, June 14, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Chef has released a new open source project that introduces a unique approach for application automation. Applications packaged with Habitat have the intelligence to self-organize and self-configure making applications independent of underlying infrastructure. The platform provides the ability to run applications across increasingly diverse environments such as con...
The Unsung Side Of Mobile Apps: Bootstrapping Development With Mobile Backend Services
Monday, December 7, 2015 by Mike Thompson
There’s more to a successful mobile app than a slick UI and cross-platform availability. Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS) makes developing compelling, full featured apps faster and easier.When building applications, every budding developer knows the temptation of fixating on the UI at the expense of algorithms, data structures and state management. After al...
Red Hat Updates Open Source Web Tools With Software Collections 2.1
Thursday, November 19, 2015 by Richard Harris
Red Hat has released Red Hat Software Collections 2.1 into general availability offering new functionality to the platform’s open source web development tools, dynamic languages and databases. Developers can expect a continuing more frequent release cycle of the Software Collections than with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat Software Collections 2.1 features sever...
Heroku's Private Spaces Brings New Levels of Security for Apps in the Cloud
Monday, September 28, 2015 by Richard Harris
Heroku’s new Private Spaces, now in limited beta, offers a new Heroku runtime that provides a way to isolate network applications and data services in the cloud. It provides a network isolated group of apps and data services with a dedicated runtime environment, provisioned to Heroku in a specific geographic region. Private Spaces is powered by Heroku Dogwood, a new run...
Unlocking the Potential of Accelerated IoT Development
Monday, July 6, 2015 by Gilad Khen
Anyone who has ever created an Internet of Things (IoT) solution knows the pain of integrating the various parts of the software into a single functioning app. In a typical IoT app you will most likely find logic for collecting data, transforming it, sending it to various services for processing or analysis, and finally storing it in one or more data stores. In man...
Piston and ActiveState Partner to Offer OpenStack and Cloud Foundry Platform as a Service
Monday, February 9, 2015 by Richard Harris
Piston Cloud Computing and ActiveState Software are partnering together to use Piston with ActiveState’s Stackato Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) capabilities to offer an OpenStack and Cloud Foundry PaaS based private cloud environment.Piston provides a turn-key infrastructure management and automation layer while Stackato provides a platform to manage, develop and deploy ...
Progress Debuts New Appserver for Developing and Deploying Applications
Friday, October 10, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Progress has announced a new appserver for developing and deploying next generation applications, the Progress Pacific Application Server (PAS) for OpenEdge product. This technology brings core systems and applications together with a high-productivity runtime environment, enabling enterprise developers to bridge the gap between yesterday's mission-critical applications...
HP Launches Cloud Managed Application Self Protection Service
Friday, September 12, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
HP has introduced HP Application Defender, a cloud-managed application self-protection service that provides immediate visibility and actively defends production applications against attacks.As HP said in the recent announcement, “As the number and complexity of enterprise applications grows, the attack surface for exploits increases exponentially, leaving enterpri...
Pivotal Launches App Suite
Wednesday, August 13, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Pivotal has announced the availability of the Pivotal App Suite, which brings together Pivotal’s open source investments in Spring IO, Groovy & Grails, RabbitMQ, Redis, Apache Tomcat, and the Apache HTTP Server, and combines them with Pivotal tc Server, Pivotal Web Server, and Pivotal RabbitMQ into a single platform product offering. The intent of The Pivo...
LG Launches New webOS TV SDK Developer Site
Monday, July 14, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
LG has launched a new webOS TV Developer Site to provide a one-stop resource center for all developer requirements for webOS TV applications. Developers can learn how to plan, design, develop and publish webOS application for the LG Smart+ TV.About the New WebsiteDevelopers can download and install the webOS TV SDK and set up the development environment. The S...
Spring Releases Spring XD Milestone 7
Tuesday, June 10, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Spring XD is a unified, distributed, and extensible system for data ingestion, real time analytics, batch processing, and data export. The project's goal is to simplify the development of big data applications providing a lightweight runtime environment that is easily configured and assembled via a simple DSL.Spring XD features include: - High throughput distr...
Amazon Web Services Enhances Elastic Beanstalk for Docker
Friday, April 25, 2014 by Richard Harris
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has enhanced Elastic Beanstalk with the ability to launch applications contained in Docker images or described in Dockerfiles. Docker provides a new runtime environment for Elastic Beanstalk, joining the existing Node.JS, PHP, Python, .NET, Java, and Ruby environments.With the launch, developers now have the ability to build...
