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Technology is not neutral. It is always embedded in social, economic, and political relations built on systematic, structural imbalances of power. Welcome to capitalism. Including the Xi Jinping ...
CW Developer Network
CWDN series: DevEx – Couchbase: 1 size fits one, personalisation matters
28 Jul 2023This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Perry Krug in his capacity as head of developer experience at Couchbase. Krug describes himself as a ‘very’ technical ...
CW Developer Network
CWDN series: DevEx – Penpot: For good front-ends, build bridges with design
27 Jul 2023This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Alonso Torres in his role as a software engineer at Kaleidos working on Penpot. Penpot is an open source design-to-code ...
Data Matters
How the high street gains from advanced data analytics
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 26 Jul 2023This is a guest blog post by Phillip Sewell, CEO at Predyktable. The high street is finally back in business, with customers flocking back to stores, restaurants and pubs. To fuel and sustain this ...
CW Developer Network
CWDN series: Dev-eXperience – Snorkel AI: Programmatic labelling leads to better collaboration
26 Jul 2023This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Aparna Lakshmiratan, VP of Product at Snorkel AI - a company known for its technology that equips enterprises to build or ...
CW Developer Network
CWDN series: Dev-eXperience – Pegasystems: I develop, therefore I am
25 Jul 2023This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Peter van der Putten in his position as director of the AI Lab at Pegasystems, a provider of a low-code platform for ...
CW Developer Network
CWDN series: Dev-eXperience – Cockroach Labs: Building for the 99% in day 2
24 Jul 2023This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jordan Lewis in his capacity as senior director for cloud engineering at Cockroach Labs. Lewis writes in full as follows... ...
This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written in full by Karthik Ranganathan, co-founder and CTO, Yugabyte. Yugabyte is known for its distributed SQL database for what the ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Time to sound the alarm as AI hype catches fire
Freeform Dynamics 20 Jul 2023One of the most worrying things that’s coming out of recent research, both ours and other people’s, is just how wildly different attitudes to AI – and especially generative AI – can be between ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Support for smaller businesses in AI revolution
Managing Editor 20 Jul 2023Not a single day goes by without someone, somewhere talking about the pros or cons of artificial intelligence. Earlier this week, Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, took to the stage at the company’s ...
CW Developer Network
CWDN series: Dev-eXperience - Pipedrive: Tribes & missions breed growth & nourishment
20 Jul 2023This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Mikk Mangus in his capacity as engineering manager at Pipedrive - a company known for its sales and Customer Relationship ...
CW Developer Network
CWDN series: Dev-eXperience - New Relic: Elevating full-stack DX for business success
19 Jul 2023This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jemiah Sius in his capacity as director of developer relations at New Relic. New Relic is known for its its digital ...
CW Developer Network
CWDN series: Dev-eXperience - DataStax: Meet developers where they want to be
19 Jul 2023This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Dom Couldwell in his capacity as head of field engineering for EMEA region at data platform company DataStax. DataStax is ...
Networks Generation
Holidays and Awards – The Perfect Summer Marriage...
Broadband Testing 18 Jul 2023Well, it might be 2023, a world of geo-dispersed user bases, flexible working hours and networks that can be accessed and managed from anywhere, anytime but… still half the world of IT disappears ...
CW Developer Network
CWDN series: Dev-eXperience - Appian: How automation liberates & elevates
18 Jul 2023This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jennifer Durina in her capacity as director of solutions consulting at Appian. Durina writes in full as follows… It’s clear ...
The London Cyber Resilience Centre is an umbrella for partnerships to deliver support and services for micro-businesses and sole traders at scale and help address the on-line safety, safeguarding, ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
It’s time to look again at IT and Software Asset Management
Freeform Dynamics 17 Jul 2023In the realm of IT administration, it's all too easy to get stuck in familiar patterns, treating well-worn routines as unalterable. Asset management is a discipline that often falls prey to this ...
CW Developer Network
CWDN series: Dev-eXperience – Nutanix: De-stress success via a decoupled application data layer
14 Jul 2023This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Rob Tribe in his role as VP for systems engineering at Nutanix. Tribe writes in full as follows… We think about Developer ...
I travel. There are of course a lot of technology conferences, symposia, study tours and press gatherings to attend around the planet and this particular writer ends up going to a good share of ...
This is a guest blog post by Gert-Jan Wijman, VP of EMEA, Celigo. Computer applications have done wonders for bringing people together. From the early days of chatrooms to the rapid rise of social ...
CW Developer Network
CWDN series: Dev-eXperience - Venafi: The key to good DevEx? Cut the yak shaving
13 Jul 2023This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Matt Barker in his role as president of cloud native solutions at Venafi and Steve Judd, chief solutions architect at ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Continued disclosure failures by Post Office show contempt for Horizon victims
Editor in chief 12 Jul 2023What are we to assume from the latest developments in the public inquiry into the Post Office scandal? Let’s lay out the facts... The inquiry was this week forced to postpone scheduled hearings ...
CW Developer Network
CWDN series: Dev-eXperience - Perforce: When coding, think about the non-coding factors
12 Jul 2023This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Rod Cope in his capacity as CTO for Perforce. Cope writes as follows… Developers are still the front line of software ...
When IT Meets Politics
Why we need to research the cybersecurity needs of Micro-Businesses?
Winsafe Ltd 12 Jul 2023Current government policy, from digital inclusion to cyber security is based on allegation, not evidence with regard to the five million microbusinesses and sole traders who account for 30% of the ...
In this guest post, Jack Pearce, CEO of green critical power systems manufacturer Active Power, outlines the risks involved with using battery-based power in datacentres A datacentre ...
CW Developer Network
CWDN series: Dev-eXperience – Iterate.ai: We’ve come a long way, but just wait...
11 Jul 2023This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by John Selvadurai in his position as VP of R&D at Iterate.ai, an AI low-code platform provider. Looking to the past and ...
CW Developer Network
CWDN series: Dev-eXperience – Sysdig: Don’t (sleep)walk through run(time)
10 Jul 2023This is a contributed piece for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Crystal Morin in her capacity as cybersecurity strategist for Sysdig. In her role today, Morin is tasked with ...
It’s been a busy month in open source, already. While Red Hat continues to wrangle with its approach to open developer access on the Red Hat Enterprise Linus (RHEL) source code front (and that’s ...
CW Developer Network
CWDN series: Dev-eXperience – Confluent: Building a cohesive frame of reference
07 Jul 2023This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Kai Waehner in his capacity as global field CTO, Confluent. Confluent is described as a full-scale data streaming platform ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
An AI crash is coming: don’t let it drag you down
Freeform Dynamics 05 Jul 2023All the signs are there that an AI crash is coming: overinflated claims and dodgy hype, a serious lack of expectation management, fears around privacy, ethics and fairness, over-enthusiastic ...
Neo4j is a graph database & analytics company that says its mission is to help organisations ‘find hidden relationships and patterns’ across billions of data connections. The company recently ...
Data Matters
How should global companies respond to the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act?
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 04 Jul 2023This is a guest blogpost by Greg Hanson, GVP, platform sales specialist, Informatica. The impact of EU regulations does not stop at the borders of Europe. We saw this with the General Data ...
When IT Meets Politics
Envisioning the Global Information Society - The World and Business Computing in 2051
Winsafe Ltd 04 Jul 2023The technologies which will underpin business computing and the global information society in fifty years time are almost certainly already in the laboratories of today. The way they are packaged ...
Open source content management system (CMS) provider Umbraco has announced its latest major release. Umbraco 12 includes headless functionality to support multi-channel content delivery. As the ...
Networks Generation
SASE Delivery - Is A PoP always a PoP? What to look for...
Broadband Testing 03 Jul 2023In my previous blogs I spoke of the delivery-related problems when there are no local PoPs, or the equivalent technology in place to successfully deliver those services, and how this potentially ...
In my previous blog I noted how themes occur seemingly from nowhere, that are common among vendors from different spheres of IT. In this particular case it is various vendors I’m working with who ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Joe Brockmeier in his position as head of community at cloud database company Percona. Known for his love of blogging, ...
Data Matters
Where SMBs should start on their AI journey
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 03 Jul 2023This is a guest blogpost by Pierre-Baptiste Béchu, Aircall co-founder and CTPO The SaaS industry is being reshaped by AI. More and more companies are turning to AI to innovate their products, and ...
As more organisations look to navigate the uncharted sea that is ‘enterprise AI’, data management expert, Cloudera has thrown its hat (or should that be oars) into the ring by announcing that its ...
Snowflake used its Snowflake Summit 2023 event in Las Vegas this June to showcase its latest augmentations, extensions and enhancements now featuring across its builder toolset for software ...
It’s worth learning to speak Generation-Z slang, the older segment of this youth cohort is now in its early twenties and could soon be entering management. Is it worrying then to find that almost ...
CW Developer Network
Snowflake Native App Framework heats up developer distribution & monetisation
27 Jun 2023Known for its love of data engineering, toboggans, polar bears and information-centric application monetisation platforms, the Computer Weekly Developer Network team needed little persuasion to ...
Data quality company Soda has launched SodaGPT, a generative Artificial intelligence (gen-AI) powered tool for data quality. It enables a no-code self-serve approach for users of all backgrounds to ...
The nature of IT means that there are numerous ways to achieve more-or-less the same result.Some options are technically superior; others may be lower cost or simpler to manage. With so much choice ...
Data privacy automation company Integral has announced the company’s first open source project, Robin AI. This is a technology that reviews code changes and provides constructive feedback, helping ...
Project lead: Let’s build some data-centric apps! Developers: Hmm, you sound too keen - and anyway, how screwy is the requirements-gathering process and what crazy requests have we got from the ...
In this guest post, Kumaravel Ramakrishnan, technology director at application management software maker ManageEngine, shares an extract from a recent company report from and ten independent IT ...
Keen to dig below the headlines and find out if the claims are real, the Computer Weekly Developer Network team is off to Snowflake Summit - staged in Las Vegs from June 26-29… and billed as the ...
This is a guest post by Robert Linsdell, managing director for Australia and New Zealand at critical infrastructure company Vertiv We’re living in an ever-evolving digital world, one which is ...
Deciphering the politician soundbites during London Tech Week shows that both the Tories and Labour are headed by party leaders who want to be seen as supporters of artificial intelligence (AI).But ...