Responsibilities of lead test automation architects
Thursday, July 4, 2024 by Ramcham Floyd T. Gaid
Software Quality Assurance Leaders and QA Automation Architects are in high demand by the work fields of technology, hospitality, financial, advertising, and gaming. Recruiters always look for these professions as they are highly in demand all over the world. They are the workers who cross-check the product in every stage of the software development life cycle based on ...
Multiplayer solution for game developers from Coherence
Tuesday, July 18, 2023 by Richard Harris
Coherence has announced their revolutionary network engine that redefines "effortless" for multiplayer connectivity is available now. Coherence is the first network engine that a designer can use with zero need for coding, offering a powerful set of tools that allows developers to have working multiplayer prototypes running in a matter of minutes. It is o...
$3M in funding secured by W3 Storage Lab
Thursday, August 25, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
W3 Storage Lab has announced that it closed a pre-seed financing round of $3M. The round was co-led by Draper Dragon and OKX Blockdream Ventures with major participation from Lingfeng Capital and participation from other investors. Proceeds from the round will be used to grow its global team and fund operations.
W3 Storage Lab has co-developed a next-generation distr...
HAProxy load balancer 20th anniversary celebration
Wednesday, November 17, 2021 by Austin Harris
HAProxy Technologies, the provider of a software load balancer, has announced the 20th anniversary of the HAProxy load balancer, a major milestone for one of the industry's most successful open-source products. This week, the HAProxy community will be celebrating this milestone at the virtual HAProxyConf by presenting individual experiences in deploying the HAP...
Xpring io and everything you need to know
Wednesday, April 1, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
In December, Xpring announced the launch of xpring.io, a developer site that includes a wallet, tools, services, and documentation that help developers insert payments in their products.
Xpring Wallet
The Xpring Wallet now supports Interledger Protocol (ILP) STREAM, which enables developers to participate in the streaming economy by integrating streaming payments ...
What's new in NGINX Plus R18
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 by Richard Harris
NGINX, Inc. has announced the general availability of NGINX Plus R18. NGINX Plus is an all-in-one load balancer, content cache, web server, proxy, API gateway, and Kubernetes Ingress Controller. This versatility enables you to simplify your architecture for delivering both traditional applications and new ones based on microservices.
NGINX’s flexibility, ...
Mesh networking security from NeuVector at IBM Think 2019
Thursday, February 14, 2019 by Richard Harris
NeuVector announced a new platform integration with the Istio and Linkerd2 service meshes that expands NeuVector’s security capabilities for production Kubernetes deployments. The integration - developed in coordination with IBM Cloud and the Istio open source development team - delivers new capabilities for network visibility and threat detection, even for connec...
Netifi offers new way to create microservices and cloud native apps
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 by Austin Harris
Netifi just put out their first product, a free download of Proteus Community Edition, which helps reduce the complexity associated with developing and deploying microservices and cloud-native applications. Proteus, based on the open source RSocket protocol, takes care of networking complexity, such as routing, session resumption, application flow control and predi...
The changes in iOS 12 for developers
Monday, October 1, 2018 by Richard Harris
It's here, iOS 12 - Apple's latest operating system, and it's chalked full of changes in everything from the user experience to under the programming hood. Along with the new OS, Apple has also released a new round of hardware, most notably with bigger screen sizes, a faster A12 chip, and the new Apple watch series 4. We've all seen the key note int...
Using common short codes for mobile app marketing
Friday, February 16, 2018 by Richard Harris
App developers know well the difficulties in marketing their apps. But a highly compelling way to advertise their apps in the context to the real world is being overlooked.Common Short Codes provide an easy way for app developers and brands to get consumers to download an app in context with their current, real-world surroundings. Common Short Codes bring integrity and ...
How Google is sharing a bigger piece of the subscription pie
Tuesday, November 28, 2017 by Alexian Chiavegato
In the past, some publishers expressed unease around the dynamics of their relationship with Google. Those publishers were concerned that in their partnership, Google’s dominant position meant that publishers were unfairly losing out on valuable ad revenue. But those attitudes might change soon: Google has announced new plans to launch a subscription partnership with pu...
PacketZoom launches Mobile IQ performance analytics for free
Tuesday, September 12, 2017 by Austin Harris
PacketZoom, the company re-defining mobile application performance via in-app mobile networking technology, today announced the launch of Mobile IQ, a free mobile analytics tool that enables app developers to analyze, troubleshoot and control app performance in real-time. Integrated with Mobile ExpresslaneTM as part of the PacketZoom platform, Mobile IQ makes PacketZoom...
Build a mobile API ecosystem that is high performing and reliable
Saturday, September 2, 2017 by Shlomi Gian
Application Program Interfaces (API's) represent an effective way to build and manage mobile services. By using API's - a set of routines, protocols and tools for building software applications - application developers no longer have to buy technology software or hardware. Instead, they can simply plug into a growing open ecosystem of API-driven services. It is simple t...
Mobile SDKs: What they really do to your mobile app
Friday, August 18, 2017 by Rohith Ramesh
Mobile SDKs; love them or hate them, they're here to stay. They provide our apps with all sorts of functionality that would be incredibly time consuming to build, and they give us another means to monetize our apps. Third party SDKs are in fact, quite popular. According to a study done by SafeDK, on average each Android app uses nearly 18 third party SDKs. That number i...
How developers can break the IoT language barrier
Saturday, July 29, 2017 by Richard Harris
Relationships aren’t successful when only one person is talking. A true relationship is a real, two-way conversation with both people initiating informal interactions. However, to get to a level of informality, you need context. Now imagine this relationship with your technology. When your basement floods, the home owner is alerted about the flood by a connected device,...
PacketZoom ranks news and media apps for their speed
Tuesday, July 4, 2017 by Richard Harris
Studies have shown that a majority of consumers expect app content to download in 4 seconds or less. But PacketZoom’s new data shows that most of the major news apps take much longer than 4 seconds to download the app’s homescreen. Only BBC News and Top Buzz came in under 4 seconds, while NYT, USA Today, WSJ, TechCrunch and others were much slower. That’s a huge failing...
Mobile data speeds and understanding TCP
Friday, June 23, 2017 by Aaveg Mittal
Mobile networks, like most others, rely on transmission control protocol (TCP) for data transfer. But this decision often produces poor results. TCP is a protocol meant for stable networks - and all too often, mobile is anything but stable, with unreliable and often bottlenecked connections that conflict with TCP methodologies like slow starts on transfers.But while TCP...
PacketZoom expands its offerings to SEA
Wednesday, June 14, 2017 by Richard Harris
Slow app speeds are a major problem for Southeast Asia, where a recent Digitimes report found that 3G/4G mobile broadband Internet access was expected to reach just 60% in Southeast Asia in 2017, compared to 81% for the United States and more than 90% for countries such as Japan and South Korea. PacketZoom’s own Mobile Observatory report also found a high number of netw...
Wifi vs Bluetooth vs BLE, choosing the right IoT tech
Tuesday, May 16, 2017 by Yuri Brigance
Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices are increasing in popularity and availability - think Amazon Alexa, smart thermostats & light bulbs, Internet-connected garage door openers, GoPro cameras, and so on. One thing these products have in common is that they communicate wirelessly with either a mobile device, the Internet, or both. As these devices become smarter and gene...
NGINX Plus Release 10 Lands
Monday, August 29, 2016 by Richard Harris
NGINX Plus R10 is NGINX’s most significant release to date. NGINX Plus extends the open source NGINX software with advanced functionality and award‑winning support, providing customers with a complete application delivery solution. This latest release is the culmination of work the team has been putting in over the past year based on feedback from some of the ...
Is Your Brand Developing a ChatBot Strategy
Friday, June 17, 2016 by Brian Heikes
Marketers and Customer Service professionals are now paying a lot of attention to ChatBots. Whereas the web, mobile marketing and smartphone apps were at one point the “next big thing”, ChatBots are now becoming a pervasive part of a brand’s digital toolkit.“Bots”, as they’re known, are being talked about as the next evolution of messaging interaction between brands and...
VMware Releases Liota SDK for Building IoT Gateway Orchestration Applications
Thursday, June 16, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
VMware has launched Liota (Little IoT Agent), a vendor-neutral open source software development kit (SDK) for building secure IoT gateway data and control orchestration applications. Liota has been generalized to allow, via modules, interaction with any data-center component, over any transport, and for any IoT gateway. It is intended to be easy-to-use and provides...
NGINX Plus Application Delivery Platform Receives Updates
Thursday, April 14, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
NGINX Plus Release 9 (R9) is the latest release of NGINX’s application delivery platform. New functionality includes the ability to dynamically install rich extensions to NGINX Plus, the inclusion of commercially-supported UDP load balancing, and new pricing and support options. Among the most significant new features is the ability to dynamically load rich extensi...
NGINX Adds UDP Load Balancing Capabilities for IoT Applications
Saturday, March 19, 2016 by Richard Harris
NGINX has introduced new load balancing capabilities to support the User Datagram Protocol (UDP). These new features build on NGINX’s existing Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and HTTP load balancing capabilities as a front-end for a wide range of web and mobile applications. UDP is emerging as one of the protocols-of-choice for new Internet of Things (IoT) appl...
Why Fast Loading Apps and Mobile Websites are Totally Different Beasts to Tame
Friday, March 11, 2016 by Jeff Kim
It’s becoming somewhat passé to trumpet the gentle fading of the mobile web, as defined by browser-based activity, while simultaneously heralding the clear-cut triumph of apps as the dominant center of mobile user engagement. Certainly the facts bear it out: separate studies by comScore, Flurry Analytics and Forrester Research have found that mobile users spend bet...
Mitigating Data Exposure Risks on z Systems
Friday, February 19, 2016 by Richard Harris
We visited with Ashok Reddy, CA Technologies’ General Manager – Mainframe, to discuss how the CA Data Content Discovery helps identify data exposure risks on z Systems and reduces these risks by scanning through the mainframe data infrastructure so that the right business decisions can be made to secure, encrypt, archive, or delete the data identified based on its sensi...
Catching Mobile Encryption Flaws
Tuesday, December 15, 2015 by Craig Young
More than 80-percent of mobile devices contain encryption flaws and applications written in PHP, ColdFusion and Classic ASP are most likely to have serious flaws according to a report by Veracode. These flaws in mobile apps present a grave risk for those who use them on untrusted wireless networks. The Source of the Encryption FlawsI believe that a common source of...
New Version of CloudMaestro Application Delivery Controller Released
Monday, October 5, 2015 by Richard Harris
Lagrange Systems’ CloudMaestro, a cloud-based application delivery controller (ADC), has received a number of new upgrades which enhances the platform’s ability to scale out or in synchronously ahead of demand. CloudMaestro is an ADC architected for the cloud which can commission or decommission instances rapidly to serve new applications or sudden changes in user ...
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...
WyzBee Offers a New End to End IoT Platform for Device Makers
Tuesday, August 25, 2015 by Richard Harris
Redpine Signals has launched the WyzBee platform, a new IoT platform for device makers that includes a flexible hardware platform, development environment and cloud software and services framework. The WyzBee IoT platform provides the opportunity to reduce the time it takes to develop and bring to market new IoT devices by providing integrated sensing, computing, c...
Renesas Electronics Offers New IoT Platform
Tuesday, June 23, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Renesas Electronics, a supplier of semiconductor solutions, is throwing its hat into the IoT fray with its new Renesas Synergy Platform, a new offering designed to allow embedded systems engineers to start product development at the API level, giving them more time to design features. The platform should be generally available in Q4 2015.“Engineering teams used to spend...
PacketZoom Launches Platform to Allow Mobile Apps to Access Cloud Content Up to 10 Times Faster
Tuesday, May 12, 2015 by Richard Harris
PacketZoom is launching what it calls a Mobile Speed as a Service (MSaaS), with a new platform that addresses problems mobile app users experience with app performance.The service is designed specifically for mobile app publishers and has the potential to speed up app content download time from the Cloud by up to 10 times. PacketZoom moves beyond the 40 year-old TCP pro...
RoboVM Lets Developers Use Java to Build iOS Apps Using native UI’s With Full Hardware Access
Thursday, April 2, 2015 by Richard Harris
RoboVM Lets Developers Use Java to Build iOS Apps Using native UI’s With Full Hardware AccessRoboVM has released the first stable version of its coding platform which lets developers reuse Java language and tools skills to build iOS Apps using native UI’s and with full hardware access.RoboVM is setup as a platform with multiple components:- The ahead-of-time (AOT) compi...
MediaTek Labs Launches New Cloud Sandbox Data Platform for Prototyping IoT Apps
Monday, March 16, 2015 by Richard Harris
MediaTek Labs has announced the general availability of its new Cloud Sandbox data platform to help developers create Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The new free service offers storage of and access to data from wearable and IoT devices during prototyping.It helps address the challenges developers face in the early stages of device creation for management of lar...
Synopsys Releases embARC Open Software Platform for ARC Based IoT and Other Embedded Applications
Tuesday, March 10, 2015 by Richard Harris
Synopsys has released the embARC Open Software Platform to help accelerate the development of DesignWare ARC processor-based embedded systems. The new embARC platform gives ARC software developers online access to a suite of free and open-source software that eases the development of code for the IoT and other embedded applications. Device drivers, operating system...
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