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May 11, 2022 - 0 Comments

A little over a year after scoring $100 million, Finnish open source phenom Aiven has raised more than twice that amount - $210 million - at a pre-money valuation of $3 billion.The Series D round...

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May 10, 2022 - 0 Comments

The Android development team announced the stable release of Android Studio Chipmunk, the latest version of the official IDE for building Android apps.  One new feature is the Compose Animation Preview which enables developers to...

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May 9, 2022 - 0 Comments

A lot of attention has been given over the past year over the phenomenon of the Great Resignation: workers have been leaving their jobs at surprisingly high rates. According to data from the Pew Research...

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May 6, 2022 - 0 Comments

From an organizational level, creating and managing value streams plays an important role in eliminating wasteful processes and the time they take, enabling the company to focus on delivering value to their customers. At software...

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May 5, 2022 - 0 Comments

Developers have always had a need for infrastructure. But with the need to update applications or websites quickly to take advantage of changing market conditions, the idea of asking IT to spin up an environment...

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May 5, 2022 - 0 Comments

Apple, Google, and Microsoft today announced plans to expand support for a common passwordless sign-in standard created by the FIDO Alliance and the World Wide Web Consortium.  Whereas previous implementations of passwordless verification required users...

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May 4, 2022 - 0 Comments

Henry Ford once said “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” Achieving a good customer experience (CX) is a fine line that comes down to building what the...

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May 4, 2022 - 0 Comments

Microsoft has made a complete overhaul of the core PowerShell engine to create a more reliable and stable user experience.  The release of the updated PowerShell extension in VS Code includes a rewrite of PowerShell...

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May 2, 2022 - 0 Comments

The engineering efficiency platform, LinearB, today announced that it has raised $50 million in Series B funding. The financing round was led by Tribe Capital with participation from new investor Salesforce Ventures as well as...

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May 2, 2022 - 0 Comments

Web apps go through the continuous development and deployment pipeline in today’s DevOps and cloud era. So, there is a compelling need for test automation frameworks to evolve and innovate. In addition, enterprises want to...

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April 28, 2022 - 0 Comments

GraphQL company Hasura has announced a new capability that will let developers join data from different GraphQL services. This new GraphQL Joins feature can be used to create a unified GraphQL API.  According to the...

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April 28, 2022 - 0 Comments

With the move to the cloud, the amount of data that companies are able to manage has grown exponentially. This is why Capital One created Data Profiler, the open-source Python library that utilizes machine learning...

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April 27, 2022 - 0 Comments

Oracle may be the stewards of the Java programming language, but their market share in Java Development Kit (JDK) distributions has significantly dropped over the past two years. This is according to New Relic’s 2022...

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April 27, 2022 - 0 Comments

Test automation company mabl has announced that it is extending its testing platform to incorporate accessibility testing. The new testing capabilities are now in beta and will enable teams to identify and resolve accessibility issues...

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April 26, 2022 - 0 Comments

Call for Code is an annual development challenge in which developers create solutions to help with a problem the world is facing. It is sponsored by David Clark Cause, IBM, United Nations Human Rights, and...

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April 22, 2022 - 0 Comments

GitHub announced new improvements that streamline the Codespaces experience when working with multi-repository and mono-repo projects.   GitHub initially released Codespaces to address cloud-native applications that are housed in a single repository: the most common type...

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April 22, 2022 - 0 Comments

Kubeflow is an MLOps toolkit originally created by Google that has integrated components for model development, model training, multi-step pipelines, AutoML, serving, monitoring, artifact management, and experiment tracking.  The project aims to reduce costs associated...

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April 21, 2022 - 0 Comments

The observability company New Relic today announced an update to its fully managed tracing solution, New Relic Infinite Tracing. This update offers two new innovations in order to help engineering teams globally.  Front-end and full-stack...

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April 20, 2022 - 0 Comments

Gradle is releasing a new feature that promises to cut testing time by up to 70%. Predictive Test Selection is an extension to Gradle Enterprise that uses machine learning to select and run tests that...

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April 20, 2022 - 0 Comments

Sysdig announced the release of Risk Spotlight, a vulnerability prioritization feature based on runtime intelligence. The feature enables teams to reduce vulnerabilities by 95% and allows developers to focus on shipping applications faster, according to...

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April 19, 2022 - 0 Comments

The latest version of the JavaScript runtime Node.js is now available.  Node.js 18 includes an update to the V8 JavaScript engine, global fetch enabled by default, and a core test runner module. The V8 engine...

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April 19, 2022 - 0 Comments

A new platform called Slingshot is launching today to give companies a single platform for collaborating on data analytics, projects, content, and chat.  Slingshot was built by the Infragistics Innovation Lab. It is available as...

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April 15, 2022 - 0 Comments

The analytics engineering company, dbt Labs, has announced that dbt Cloud is now available on Databricks Partner Connect. This brings users a risk-free, fast, and frictionless method to experience dbt Cloud on the lakehouse. Through...

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April 15, 2022 - 0 Comments

GitHub announced a new feature for Dependabot alerts that helps developers see how vulnerabilities affect their code. Dependabot alerts use GitHub’s precise code navigation engine to determine if a repository directly calls a vulnerable function. ...

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