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...
Game development and Live Ops are evolving
Tuesday, December 8, 2020 by Richard Harris
We recently caught up with Carbonated and AWS Game Tech to discuss how Carbonated’s custom-built, live ops platform Carbyne enables game developers to bring fresh content to players in real-time, without engineering support or an office-based workforce.
While Carbonated is a relatively small gaming studio, they have the tools to become a major player among the ...
What is Ossum
Thursday, October 3, 2019 by Thomas Hooker
Software development is not just coding, especially when working on a team. A developer spends time planning work, discussing requirements, reviewing work, testing, and deploying. To help with these tasks, teams often use a variety of tools, from issue trackers to source control to CI/CD tools. It's not unusual for a team to have a different supplier for each tool, ...
JavaScript based low code platform emerges from Progress
Wednesday, March 20, 2019 by Richard Harris
Progress has revealed its strategy and approach for enabling high productivity application development. As part of this strategy, Progress announced the latest release of the Progress Kinvey platform, delivering a combination of high productivity, full developer control over the app experience, and operational efficiency for modern workloads with dynamic scale.
As bu...
Using GitHub in the classroom helps developers feel more included
Friday, August 17, 2018 by Richard Harris
A GitHub survey conducted with a combined 8,000 college professors and students has concluded in order to weigh in on whether experience-based or traditional computer science teaching methods proves to work best. In the study, Github measured the predicted learning outcomes from classes that utilized GitHub in their learning experience and those that did not.
GitHub ...
Applitools raises $31M to advance visual AI
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Applitools has announced it has raised $31 million in Series C funding led by OpenView, the expansion stage venture firm, with participation from its existing investors Sierra Ventures, Magma Venture Partners, iAngels, and La Maison. Applitools will use this investment to fuel market expansion of its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Powered Visual Testing and Monitoring sol...
DBmaestro Releases Updates to TeamWork Database Automation Platform
Thursday, June 16, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
DBmaestro has released the latest version of its TeamWork continuous delivery/continuous integration database automation platform. TeamWork Version 5.1 improves the platform’s database release automation interoperability to support integration with all sources of database changes, while predicting the success of database deployments and alerting for configuration d...
SmartBear Releases New Agile Development Test Automation Tool
Friday, April 8, 2016 by Richard Harris
SmartBear Software has released a new developer focused test automation tool, TestLeft which allows developers working in an Agile and continuous delivery environment to create tests within IDEs, which helps reduce test creation and maintenance time.TestLeft is a testing tool for developers who are testing in Agile teams. It fully embeds into standard development IDEs s...
Shippable Announces New Continuous Delivery Platform
Tuesday, March 1, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Shippable has announced a new continuous delivery which offers end-to-end deployment pipelines that help eliminate the need to create custom automation and integrations. It also gives developers flexibility and choice of development tools and deployment options, and provides an application delivery path with support for n-tier applications as well as cloud-native techno...
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...
Unity 5.1 Release Includes Native Oculus Rift Deployment
Friday, June 19, 2015 by Richard Harris
Unity Technologies has released Unity 5.1, bringing game developers a unified development experience for Virtual Reality platforms including Oculus Rift and updated multiplayer networking solutions.With Unity 5.1 the company has added a optimized rendering pipeline for VR and AR devices. Native Oculus Rift deployment is now available and native support for other platfor...
Flexera Software Provides Updates to InstallShield Windows Installer
Thursday, June 18, 2015 by Richard Harris
Flexera Software has released InstallShield 2015, a Windows installer which simplifies installations for cloud, Web, virtual and traditional environments. This latest version of InstallShield comes with a number of updates to help developers ensure the compatibility of their installations with the latest technologies including Windows 10, Visual Studio 2015 and SHA-256 ...
Prerequisites for a Successful Enterprise Continuous Delivery Implementation
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 by Cyrille Le Clerc
Continuous Delivery as a methodology and tool to meet the ever-increasing demand to deliver better software faster is fast gaining the attention of businesses today. Continuous Delivery, with its emphasis on keeping software in a release-ready state at all times, is a natural evolution from continuous integration and agile software development practices. However, ...
How to Avoid the Naughty App Developer List in 2015
Friday, December 19, 2014 by Dan Silivestru
The 12 Good Deeds to Get You On The Developer ‘Nice’ List This Year...As the end of 2014 quickly approaches, we know that many developers are working on their New Year’s resolutions. Some developers may be on the ‘Naughty’ list this year for neglecting to take important measures while writing their code and building their software projects.With the holidays just around ...
WSO2 Launches App Factory Self Service Enterprise DevOps Platform
Tuesday, July 16, 2013 by Richard Harris
WSO2 has introduced App Factory, a multi-tenant, elastic and self-service Enterprise DevOps platform, which allows multiple development groups to collaboratively create, run and manage enterprise applications.
The new product offers a application lifecycle management system offering Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) capabilities.
Developers can utilize App Factory to c...
Major Updates for Azure Mobile Backend Development
Monday, July 1, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft has released some great updates to Windows Azure that make it significantly easier to develop mobile applications that use the cloud. These new capabilities include:Mobile Services: Custom API supportMobile Services: Git Source Control supportMobile Services: Node.js NPM Module supportMobile Services: A .NET API via NuGetMobile Services and Web Sites: Free 20M...
