Microverse World Builder from Croquet
Monday, November 28, 2022 by Richard Harris
Croquet Corporation has announced the availability of Microverse World Builder, a browser-based development environment for the Open Metaverse that lets web and web3 developers rapidly create multi-user 3D Metaverse worlds that can be published to any web server, completely independent of proprietary platforms.
Microverse World Builder includes the newest releas...
Getting started with blockchain smart contracts
Thursday, March 11, 2021 by Shaul Kfir
Cryptocurrency garners most of the headlines when it comes to blockchain, but the biggest impact over the long run will come from many other practical uses including banking, property records and healthcare, just to name a few. For all of the different use cases, blockchain apps have one thing in common that should be at the forefront of anything developers are working ...
Linux and LISH release census for open source security
Wednesday, February 19, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
The Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) and the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH), announced the release of ‘Vulnerabilities in the Core,’ a Preliminary Report and Census II of Open Source Software.
This Census II analysis and report represent important steps towards understanding and addressing structural and s...
Elastic Stack 7.3 brings maps and more
Monday, August 5, 2019 by Christian Hargrave
Elastic has delivered Elastic Stack 7.3, which includes some very cool new features such as data frames, anomaly detection, elastic maps, and more. Check out all the highlights of the latest release below.
Elastic Stack 7.3 highlights
Data frames: a new feature that allows users to pivot their Elasticsearch data on the fly to create live entity-centric in...
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, ...
Open source software turns 20
Tuesday, February 6, 2018 by Richard Harris
First let me say in full disclaimer that I love open source software and initiatives, and I come from the enterprise world as it where in 1998. The days where IT budgets were as fat as overfed guppy goldfish, and open source tech was barely used in production environments. Open source source software has always had the same set of challenges following closely behin...
Flexera issues warning about Cyberattacks
Tuesday, October 24, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
As 143 million Equifax consumers continue to pick up the pieces from stolen Social Security numbers, birth dates, drivers’ licenses, addresses and credit card numbers, Flexera has another warning - expect a long tail of incidents and breaches in the months and years to come.Flexera surveyed over 400 software suppliers, Internet of Things (IoT) manufacturers and in-house...
Software developers are easy targets for hackers study finds
Thursday, July 20, 2017 by Richard Harris
Netsparker Ltd., a company in the web applications security industry, has released survey results showing that most software developers make themselves easy targets for hackers, even when they are behind a corporate firewall. The primary reason is not that their web server software is out of date, however. Instead, it is largely the result of developers running vulnerab...
Stop masking your crappy apps
Wednesday, July 19, 2017 by Omed Habib
This may come as a surprise, but the “close door” button in an elevator does absolutely nothing to make the door shut faster. It’s purely a psychological ploy to ease the minds of impatient riders. It tricks them into thinking that they’re speeding up their ride when in reality it is solely designed to calm their nerves during unwanted seconds spent waiting.Developers h...
The smart home effect on IIoT facilities
Wednesday, May 10, 2017 by Saar Yoskovitz
The backbone of many science fiction plots just a few short years ago - smart machines, homes and cities - are now all around us thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT). Fitbits track and analyze physical attributes from stairs climbed to quality of sleep. By simply saying “Alexa,” Amazon Echo can deliver you with today’s weather forecast or play your favorite music as y...
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...
How NGINX could overpower Microsoft soon
Thursday, April 13, 2017 by Richard Harris
In 2016, NGINX experienced their largest gains as a web server vendor, having increased by 4.8 million active sites and 2.85 percentage points. Netcraft believes that if these trends continue in 2017, NGINX could possibly overtake Microsoft as the second largest vendor in the second half of the year.In a recent conversation with Faisal Memon, Product Marketing at NGINX,...
Improve app resiliency by enhancing the data tier
Tuesday, February 14, 2017 by Richard Harris
Businesses run on apps, and apps run on data. Modern databases offer the potential for much greater application uptime and performance. The fundamental attribute of modern databases is the ability to scale out capacity - organizations can leverage multiple copies of the same data so they can serve more customers demanding access to that data. Modern databases also bring...
Mobile automation testing tips
Tuesday, February 7, 2017 by Adam Croxen
As mobile application development matures, the range of features increases, but so does the effort required to test for regressions before shipping updates. A robust automation testing strategy can help in this situation but it is important to look at some key factors when setting up test suite infrastructure. An automated UI test suite can quickly run through all ...
Why you should ditch traditional business software analysis
Tuesday, December 20, 2016 by Richard Harris
Competition between software companies is a fierce battle waged not with weapons, but with scalable, intuitive, and efficient solutions that can most effect their customer’s lives. The importance of a well coordinated and strategic approach to how you choose to execute your solution is perhaps one of the most fundamental necessities required to succeed in markets.That’s...
A CloudBased App's Performance Depends on More Than the Code
Wednesday, September 21, 2016 by Richard Harris
Slow application performance, errors and outages are the bane of a development team’s day. When such issues occur, developers have traditionally combed through their code, often with the aid of an Application Performance Monitoring(APM) tool, to identify the bug causing the problem. Yet, for applications running on cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS), de...
Swift Programmers Using Checkmarx Can Now Detect Security and Code Flaws
Wednesday, September 7, 2016 by Richard Harris
Since launching publicly at Apple’s WWDC in 2014, Swift has soared in popularity amongst programmers and has caught the attention of other major technology players in the process. Google is now even considering implementing Swift as a “first class” language for Android. Facebook and Uber are exploring ways to make Swift more central to their operations, while IBM, ...
Online Mobile Web Coding Conference to be Held October 1214
Tuesday, July 26, 2016 by Richard Harris
O'Reilly is offering a three day online conference offering training on how to leverage mobile device hardware for responsive sites, progressive web apps (PWA), and optimized mobile interfaces. The conference will be held October 12–14 and training will be from 9AM – 1PM PDT.The interactive workshop focus on creating sites and applications that work across a wide variet...
Insights into the Growing DatabaseasaService Industry
Monday, July 25, 2016 by Richard Harris
To learn more about how the growing Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) industry is impacting the application development community, we recently spoke with Will Shulman, CEO of mLab (formerly MongoLab), which provides a fully managed cloud database service headquartered in San Francisco. ADM: What do you see as the most important considerations for app developers when ch...
Red Hat Updates the Hybrid Cloud Capabilities to Its Java Based JBoss EAP 7 Platform
Monday, June 27, 2016 by Richard Harris
Red Hat has announced the general availability of the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 (JBoss EAP), an open source Java EE 7 compliant application server that offers a lightweight, modular, cloud-native platform. The company also launched JBoss Core Services Collection, a set of technologies that offer common and fundamental application components. J...
Michele Casey of Oracle Chats About Oracle Linux
Wednesday, June 22, 2016 by Richard Harris
Michele Casey, Oracle Linux Senior director of Product Management, reached out to provide insight into Oracle Linux and the platform’s place in the evolution of containers for next-generation application development.ADM: To set the stage, what are some notable container use cases where people are pursuing Oracle Linux as a solution?Casey: Oracle Linux supports abroad po...
Perfect Offers Swift Web Server and Toolkit for Developers
Tuesday, May 17, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Perfect is a web server and toolkit for developers using the Swift programming language to build applications and other REST services. The platform lets developers build using only Swift to program both the client-facing and server-side of their projects.The platform is free-to-use and available under the permissible Apache License v2.0. It provides developers with a fr...
NS1's Kris Beevers Discusses DevOps Need for Dedicated DNS
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 by Richard Harris
We spoke with Kris Beevers, CEO of NS1, to learn more about how DevOps is changing the way applications are developed and how DNS technology is evolving to keep up with today’s application delivery challenges. These developments form the background for the introduction of NS1’s new offering, Dedicated DNS.Dedicated DNS is a managed DNS service for enterprises, service p...
DreamFactory Releases New Commercial Package of its REST API Backend
Tuesday, January 5, 2016 by Richard Harris
DreamFactory has released DreamFactory Enterprise, a new commercial package of its REST API backend. It runs on a Linux server and includes the DreamFactory open source runtime for instant deployment allowing development teams to provision, govern and report on DreamFactory instances.DreamFactory Enterprise facilitates hosting a number of DreamFactory instances on a sin...
Converting Classic Windows Apps to Web, Mobile and Cloud
Friday, November 13, 2015 by Richard Harris
Mobilize.Net’s WebMAP3 converts classic Windows apps into modern web applications with responsive UI that scales across form factors from PCs to Macs to iPhones, iPads, and Androids.The company has recently announced that its WebMAP3 tool for mobilizing Windows applications now targets AngularJS/Bootstrap. In conjunction with the AngularJS framework, WebMAP3 uses Bootst...
Oracle Offers New Cloud Products for JavaScript and Java Developers
Sunday, November 1, 2015 by Richard Harris
Oracle has released new cloud offerings that extend its product line with new services, toolkits and updated frameworks for JavaScript and Java developers. The new offerings are designed to facilitate application development, delivery and deployment for polyglot software development ecosystems.Oracle’s new cloud products offer a set of services, toolkits and development...
NGINX Offers New JavaScript Virtual Machine
Wednesday, October 7, 2015 by Richard Harris
NGINX has announced the preview release of nginScript, a new JavaScript Virtual Machine (VM) that combines JavaScript with the NGINX web server platform to offer scripting capabilities to enable dynamic application delivery.The release of nginScript gives developers a new way to use the NGINX platform to help craft the user experience and shaping the interactions betwee...
Are You Losing Sleep Over REST API
Tuesday, September 15, 2015 by Sammy Tam
REST API provides values in the places where it actually makes sense, and not because it is technologically chic.In this day and age, “buzzwords” have been developed for almost everything. Since the web is full of information available to everyone pretty much everywhere, these terms are often picked up within relevant communities and greatly hyped. The software eng...
Neotys Updates NeoLoad Load and Performance Testing Solution
Monday, June 22, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Neotys has announced the availability of the latest version of its NeoLoad load and performance testing solution. The release of NeoLoad 5.1 extends support for new technologies, adding complete end user experience for real browsers and devices, and enhancing analysis capabilities with graphing and metrics integrations. In order to meet testers' evolving technical ...
Let's Encrypt Offers Free, Automated and Open SSL Security Certificate Authority for Websites
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority from the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) which is hosted by The Linux Foundation. Let’s Encrypt allows website owners to obtain SSL security certificates within minutes, eliminating the hassle getting a certificate to set up a secure website. Let’s Encrypt automates the process letting site opera...
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...
Zend Releases Z Ray for Magento, a PHP Application Debugging and Productivity Solution
Monday, February 9, 2015 by Richard Harris
Zend has released Z-Ray for Magento, a PHP debugging and productivity solution for real-time visibility into applications created with Magento. Z-Ray's "X-Ray vision" offers in-context visibility inside Magento applications, showing what happens when constructing each page.Z-Ray displays all under-the-hood details and PHP requests involved in building a page. It provide...
Google Announces Beta Release of Google Cloud Trace and Monitoring
Saturday, January 24, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Last year Google announced Google Cloud Trace and Google Cloud Monitoring (through the acquisition and integration of Stackdriver) and now has released both in beta to anyone using the Google Cloud Platform. Google Cloud Trace Google Cloud Trace allows developers to diagnose performance issues in a production application by finding the traces for slow req...
Zend Server 7 Now Available on Amazon Web Services
Tuesday, September 2, 2014 by Richard Harris
Zend Server 7 on Amazon Web Services (AWS) is now available, giving developers real time feedback on the quality of the code they’re writing.In bringing Zend Server 7 to AWS, Zend has created Developer Edition, which lets developers simulate a production environment at affordable pricing. On AWS, Developer Edition is available on four Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) ...
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...
