Web testing on BitBar
Thursday, June 23, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
SmartBear is answering developers’ call for an all-in-one web and native mobile app testing solution with the release of web testing on BitBar. The company has added web browser testing capabilities into its next-gen mobile app testing platform, BitBar, for the most reliable and streamlined cloud-based testing available with instant access to all the latest browse...
Testing App for API calls lands from Speedscale
Wednesday, January 19, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
Speedscale, the API test-automation software company, today launches Speedscale CLI, a free observability tool that inspects detects, and maps API calls on local applications or containers. The offering underscores the importance of continued and proactive API testing to quickly detect and debug defects within a shifting array of upstream and downstream interdependencie...
Amazon location service launches
Monday, August 23, 2021 by Freeman Lightner
Amazon Web Services, Inc. announced the general availability of Amazon Location Service, a new service that makes it easier and more cost-effective for customers to add location functionality to their applications without compromising on user privacy or data security. With Amazon Location Service, customers can embed location functionality in their applications usi...
SRE practitioner certification announced by DevOps Institute
Monday, July 26, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
DevOps Institute announced its Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Practitioner certification. This advanced certification helps candidates validate their deeper application of practices, methods, and tools for advancing site reliability engineering practices at their organizations. The SRE Practitioner certification is tailored for anyone focused on large-scale servic...
Continuous delivery webinar with AWS marketplace
Thursday, January 21, 2021 by Richard Harris
Adopting container and microservice-based cloud-native architectures have been proven by many organizations to help meet customers' demands faster and achieve business agility.
Continuous delivery webinar with AWS marketplace
The DevOps Institute and AWS Marketplace are hosting a live webinar titled “A Guide to Cloud-Native Continuous Delivery” on ...
Cloud native continuous delivery guide
Friday, January 8, 2021 by Freeman Lightner
Adopting container and microservice-based cloud-native architectures have been proven by many organizations to help meet customers' demands faster and achieve business agility.
Containerized architectures also require an increase in speed, frequency, and consistency of application deployments. For development and operations teams seeking to transition to cloud-na...
Low code innovation predictions for 2021 from Gigaom
Tuesday, January 5, 2021 by Richard Harris
Distributed architectures drive development. We’re seeing a great deal of interest in microservices, containers, serverless, not just for new-build but also as a way to reface older applications and data. These architectures, which will also be hugely important for Edge and IoT, have an impact on how applications are built, as each distributed service needs to be ...
NextNav releases a Unity plug-in for Pinnacle
Thursday, December 10, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
NextNav announced the release of a Unity plug-in for its vertical positioning service, Pinnacle, which delivers precise altitude data to unlock 3D experiences for geolocation applications. NextNav’s Unity plug-in makes it easy for developers to integrate vertical location into any application built with the Unity engine, including games, training applications, ind...
Huawei helps global developers get access to Chinese market
Monday, November 9, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Huawei underlined its commitment to helping global developers tap into the lucrative Chinese app market at the Huawei Developer Webinar – Grow in China, Win with AppGallery. At the Webinar, global developers had exclusive opportunity to learn a range of Huawei’s initiatives, from policy consulting, product localization to user acquisition and monetizati...
Embrace Dont Replace Enterprise DevOps Realities
Friday, November 6, 2020 by Freeman Lightner
Today, Ahmed says, every business is a software business, with one top goal in mind: to drive innovation quickly. To make that possible, organizations must optimize development and delivery of software, releasing and iterating continuously. But they also must reduce risk, ensuring there is governance, control and visibility to track and trace how software is being devel...
Outbrain highlights shift in trust between social media and consumers
Wednesday, September 2, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Outbrain released new Cyber Weekend data highlighting the shift in trust between social media and consumers compared with the impact of quality news environments.
Although COVID-19 and the global recession have accelerated the shift of consumer buying to digital channels, data shows consumers' lack of trust toward the largest digital powerhouses in the world...
Webinar: What is low code and why should I care
Tuesday, April 7, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Ashwood Computer and BlueFinity International are jointly hosting a free webinar to demonstrate the many benefits of using low code app development tools to create state of the art, professional mobile apps and to introduce BlueFinity’s low code development platform, Evoke.
Research last year from Gartner[i] predicted that by 2024, about two-thirds of applicati...
Keep kids busy with SugarCoded by SmartGurlz
Friday, April 3, 2020 by Freeman Lightner
Are you looking for constructive ways to keep your children stimulated and engaged during the COVID-19 school shutdown? SmartGurlz founder Sharmi Albrechtsen beat out 40,000 other entrepreneurs on ABC's Shark Tank and negotiated with guest "shark" Richard Branson, before closing a deal with Daymond John on her line of groundbreaking toys that use an a...
Immediate availability of SkySQL from MariaDB
Thursday, April 2, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
MariaDB Corporation announced the immediate availability of MariaDB SkySQL, a database-as-a-service (DBaaS), to unlock the full power of MariaDB Platform for transactions, analytics or both, and optimized with a cloud-native architecture. SkySQL delivers the “MariaDB in the cloud” experience customers have been waiting for - fully-featured, fully c...
COBOL at 60
Thursday, September 12, 2019 by Richard Harris
Micro Focus commenced its COBOL60 activities, celebrating the continued relevance of information technology’s most enduring business language. Known for its innovation, portability, readability, and business-centricity, COBOL has continually expanded and adapted to support new technologies and business demands.
COBOL at 60
Created in 1959 as a U.S Department...
Best Practices for Kubernetes and more from Platform9
Tuesday, September 10, 2019 by Freeman Lightner
Platform9 has announced it will present at a webinar hosted by CNCF and hosts three Kubernetes Days events globally.
“KubeVirt - Beyond Containers: Coming full circle back to VMs!” on a CNCF-hosted Webinar
In this CNCF webinar, Roopak Parikh, Co-Founder & CTO at Platform9, and Joshua Hurt, Senior Software Engineer at Platform9, will...
Open Source Summit welcomes Platform9 experts
Tuesday, August 13, 2019 by Richard Harris
Platform9 shares best practices for Kubernetes at scale on Bare Metal, with RDBMS, and with serverless apps at Open Source Summit and other industry events in August.
Cloud-native experts share tips and practical learnings for Kubernetes in the enterprise, Kubernetes on bare metal or with stateful MySQL databases, and optimizing the cost and performance of Serverless...
AIPowered protection for APIs
Thursday, June 20, 2019 by Richard Harris
The proliferation of APIs catalyzed by digital transformation initiatives is viewed as a virtual goldmine by hackers, who are hijacking tokens, cookies and keys, as well as targeting weaknesses in individual APIs. And all too often, static security controls fail to stop these attacks. Now, WSO2 and Ping Identity have partnered to protect APIs against cyber-attacks by co...
Good AI starts with good data
Monday, December 10, 2018 by Heather Ames Versace
Nowadays, it seems like every company is doing something with AI - or if they’re not, they’d like to be. The technology promises to improve the way we work and live, and industries ranging from manufacturing to retail, to inspections, and everything in between are grappling to build their own AI solutions. But where to begin?
I like to say that AI is like...
Join us for a free mobile app security threats webinar on Tuesday
Friday, December 7, 2018 by Richard Harris
In 2016, a record 3 billion Yahoo accounts were hacked, and Uber reported that hackers stole the information of over 57 million accounts. Then in 2017, 412 million user accounts were taken from Friendfinder’s sites, and 147.9 million consumers were affected by the Equifax Breach. In 2018, Under Armor said that that it's My Fitness Pal app was hacked, affecting...
Improve your test automation skills with Applitools new resources
Thursday, November 15, 2018 by Richard Harris
Applitools has launched Test Automation University - a community-driven collection of educational training resources to help improve test automation skill sets. Initial offerings to the platform come from test automation experts Angie Jones, Dave Haeffner, Jonathan Lipps, Joe Colantonio, Amber Race, Elisabeth Hocke, Manoj Kumar,Jason Arbon, among others.
Automat...
Intercom launches app store to the public with more than 100 apps
Thursday, August 2, 2018 by Richard Harris
Intercom just joined the growing list of providers with their own app store by launching the Intercom App Store. With over 100 apps already in the catalog that are using their developer platform, early publishers include Coda, Hubspot, and Shopify. The app store was a bit "behind closed doors" within the Intercom product dashboard but it just got a huge shove ...
Atlassian JIRA gets a new exploratory testing tool
Thursday, July 13, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Tricentis has released an exploratory testing tool available as a native add-on for Atlassian JIRA. The Tricentis session-based exploratory testing tool simplifies the planning, documentation, and reporting of exploratory testing directly within the JIRA environment - with full traceability between exploratory test results and the associated JIRA issues. Explorator...
Introduction to Kubernetes from The Linux Foundation released
Monday, July 10, 2017 by Richard Harris
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit advancing professional open source management for mass collaboration, has announced its newest massive open online course (MOOC) is now available. The free course, LFS158x - Introduction to Kubernetes, is offered through edX, the nonprofit online learning platform founded in 2012 by Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of T...
Webinar: Continuous testing in a DevOps World, January 5th
Tuesday, January 3, 2017 by Richard Harris
Many of you still aren't sure why DevOps, Agile, or Application Lifecyle matter, so I've got an outlet where you can find out why it's important for you as a developer, and how it can impact you in a very positive way.The software development process has significantly changed and in 2017 it's going to change even more, both in terms of the complexity demanded by end use...
Cambium Networks jailbreaks first wireless broadband network
Wednesday, December 7, 2016 by Christian Hargrave
Cambium Networks has announced ePMP Elevate, a software solution allowing outdoor wireless broadband networks to gain the signature capabilities of Cambium Networks’ ePMP platform, including frequency reuse enabled by GPS Synchronization and Smart Beamforming, even on non-Cambium Networks 802.11n-based hardware. As it becomes increasingly important for wireless ne...
How Software Defined Networking Is Changing App Development
Thursday, September 8, 2016 by Richard Harris
Midokura is a global software innovator in network virtualization founded in 2010. The co-founders began their careers building distributed systems for the world’s preeminent e-commerce website: Amazon.com. Recognizing that companies around the world faced similar challenges and needed networking infrastructure not found in conventional networking, they applied th...
Four DevOps Events in September From Electric Cloud
Thursday, September 1, 2016 by Richard Harris
Electric Cloud just announced four upcoming DevOps industry events taking place in September. These events feature DevOps and IT experts who will share best practices and insights for adopting DevOps in the enterprise. Topic of discussions will include advanced deployment patterns, artifact repositories in the Continuous Delivery pipeline, as well as speakers ...
Big Data and Mobility: How Enterprise Resource Planning Is Being Reinvented
Wednesday, August 31, 2016 by Aymen Alaghbri
Although both mobile apps and big data analytics have become pivotal to business operations on a broad scale, one area of software development—enterprise resource planning (ERP)—has not historically been part of the revolution. Today, that is changing, as ERP developers recognize that their systems are perfect candidates for mobile-centric, big data analytics....
Orasi Hosts Webinar Series on Agile, DevOps, CI, and Test Automation
Tuesday, August 23, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Orasi is hosting a four-part webinar series that offers an in-depth approach on how to introduce DevOps, continuous integration and delivery, and test automation into a software development and testing process. Webinars Three and Four will be held this week with the Third webinar to be held on August 23 focusing on QA collaboration. During the webinar the Orasi tea...
WhiteHat Web Applications Security Statistics Report Highlights Chronic Vulnerabilities
Sunday, June 12, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
WhiteHat Security has released its eleventh annual Web Applications Security Statistics Report which was compiled using data collected from tens of thousands of websites to analyze vulnerabilities, remediation rates and risk levels. The report reveals that on average, the majority of web applications exhibit two or more serious vulnerabilities per application for every ...
ThoughtWorks Mingle Platform Takes a TeamCentric Approach to Scaling Agile
Monday, February 22, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
ThoughtWorks’ Mingle project management tool provides IT teams with the ability to scale agility without reducing team autonomy by managing dependencies through peer-to-peer dialogue, while giving management end-to-end visibility.The platform has recently released a dependency management feature set which integrates Agile at the program level providing real-time progres...
New uTest Community Offers QA and QE Software Testing Network
Tuesday, December 22, 2015 by Richard Harris
We recently sat down with Matt Johnston from Applause to learn more about how their new uTest serves to provide QA and QE professionals world-wide with job seeking tools and networking connections to help advance their careers. Johnston is Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer at Applause and has more than a decade of marketing experience at companies ranging from...
MBaaS: The Missing Piece in Your Mobile App Strategy
Sunday, December 13, 2015 by Richard Harris
There is not an IT team out there that isn’t feeling the pressure to feed their customers, employees, and other stakeholder’s insatiable appetite for mobile solutions. The problem grows daily and developers have to work smarter and faster to meet the increasing demand.Fortunately, a growing number of services are being introduced within the industry to help alleviate th...
Webinar To Help Indie Developers Learn How to Increase App Revenues
Thursday, November 19, 2015 by Richard Harris
Apsalar and InMobi will host a webinar titled “Six Ways Top Apps Drive More ROI” to be held on December 10 from 11 am – Noon PST. The webinar will focus on techniques and advice on how to increase ROI for an app based on its category.The webinar will focus on tactics and stratagies practiced by some of the top apps within their specific category. Topics will include:- H...
