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A balmy summer evening in London and a need to champion open source software, open platforms, open data and open computing at large can only mean one thing. That thing is a chance to celebrate the ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Benjamin Brial, founder, Cycloid. Brial writes in full as follows... As AI continues to infiltrate every corner of the ...

Twelve years ago, the Government Digital Service (GDS) told us that it was “not ‘appy at all”. The March 2013 blog post that announced GDS would not develop a government mobile app and would ...

The time has come for AI-driven precision across prevention, detection, investigation and response. This is the message from  real-time cloud security company Sysdig. Sysdig Sage is said to equip ...

Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami is fond of a big picture wide-angle view… after all, he used his keynote at this year’s .NEXT user conference in Washington, D.C. to explain to attendees how and why ...

OpenELA has announced ELValidated, a verification and interoperability suite for Enterprise Linux operating systems.  This gives developers the ability to verify the compatibility of their ...

The Overture Maps Foundation is focused on continuing what it calls its “collaborative efforts” to build interoperable open map data. The foundation has now announced Global Entity Reference System ...

Among the questions raised during the inaugural Quantum Datacentre Alliance forum held at Battersea power station in London, was one from a delegate from the government’s Quantum testbed programme, ...

This is a guest post by Justin Garrison, head of product at Sidero Labs - the company specialises in Kubernetes infrastructure automation, developing tools including Talos Linux, a security-focused ...

Keen to ingest an 18-inch pizza’s worth of API integration, automation and management, the Computer Weekly Developer Network headed to MuleSoft Connect AI 2025 in New York this month to get closer ...

MuleSoft Connect AI 2025 was hosted in New York this month and the Computer Weekly Developer Network had a front row seat to listen to the keynote. According to an opinion piece written by Andrew ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by James Sturrock in his role as director of systems engineering for hybrid multi-cloud computing company Nutanix. Stressing ...

Cyber security is a critical enabler of economic growth, fostering a stable environment for innovation and investment, according to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill: policy statement that ...

One thing we can’t get away from right now – even if we wanted to – is AI. While there are specialist AI tech vendors, the reality is that it impacts on all aspects of IT, not least two of my key ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Margaret Lee, manager of product management at Perforce Puppet. The full title of this piece is “Taming chaos in DevOps ...

The G7 meeting of world leaders is a clear indication of how the leading economies see AI. With the stagnation of economic growth alongside rising costs of maintaining existing public services, ...

Domino Data Lab has updated its enterprise AI platform and data science offerings to now introduce a more unified system for productivity, governance and delivery. The promise from Domino is: a ...

Internet access has plateaued since the surge during covid . Digital inclusion programmes need to be complimented by people contact to coax the most vulnerable on-line and/or enable neighbours and ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Anil Inamdar in his capacity as global head of data Services at NetApp Instaclustr - the company provides a managed ...

In this guest post, Rob Horne, client engagement manager at the Cabinet Office-backed colocation firm Crown Hosting Data Centres, sets out why it is high time the public sector revamped its ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Vivek Haldar, VP for agents and client innovations at Emergence AI - a company known for its development of multi-agent ...

In a guest blogpost, IFS’s Vaibs Kumar says agentic AI and model context protocols will move enterprise AI beyond pilots and into scalable, real-world automation. We are long past the point of ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Scott Willson in his position as head of product marketing at xtype - the company is known for its platform engineering ...

There’s been a lot of platform engineering activity at MuleSoft. Part of the Salesforce family since 2018, the company is of course known for its tools to build automations and integrations, in ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Sharvanath Pathak in his capacity as co-founder & CTO of WisdomAI. WisdomAI is a knowledge platform that connects into ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Mark Yi in his position as Alibaba Cloud principal engineer, director of engineering for container service. Yi writes in ...

Who would have thought that a black slab of Gorilla Glass in a titanium frame that fits in the palm of your hand would not necessarily offer the best user experience? A recent YouTube video ...

In line with our platform engineering series, we can make note of monitoring and security platform company Datadog now launching its Internal Developer Portal (IDP) to serve as a portal built on ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network went to AeraHUB 25 London this week, a “decision intelligence event” hosted by Aera, an organisation that lays a claim to having developed the very first ...

Jasper might be best known as a semi-precious aggregate of microgranular quartz, a city in Alberta, Canada and as a popular name for a dog. But, outside of stones, dogs and Canadian national park ...

This is a guest blogpost by Matthew Houlihan, senior director of government affairs, Cisco. The UK is racing to transform its public services for the digital age—and rightly so. The potential ...

This is a guest blogpost by Ian Tickle, SVP and GM International at Freshworks. Most IT leaders aren’t looking to be dazzled by the latest AI trends. What they really want is straightforward: ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jon Collins in his capacity as VP of engagement and field CTO at GigaOm. Collins starts our platform engineering series (as ...

This is a guest blogpost by John Bates, chief executive officer, the SER Group. In it he talks about why artificial intelligence is not the whole answer to handling vast swathes of corporate ...

Vast Data Cisco have expanded their collaborative partnership. The two firms say they are focused on creating a validated AI infrastructure stack that spans compute, networking, storage and ...

DevOps is dead, they say.  The end is nigh for DevOps because platform engineering is about to take over as the “new” way to coordinate software application development and its corresponding ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network followed the FinOps Foundation to San Diego this month for just about the last technology conference before the summer recess, this was FinOps X 2025 and it ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network followed the FinOps Foundation to San Diego this month for just about the last technology conference before the summer recess. This was FinOps X 2025 and it ...

A central part of the news stream at this year’s FinOps X conference in San Diego this week, the FinOps Foundation has detailed version 1.2 of the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS). ...

After an extended sojourn on the road for the US spring/summer technology conference season, the Computer Weekly Developer Network blog is home in London for Aera Technology’s cofe UK gathering. ...

Data infrastructure, networks and new-age computing platform company NTT (not its official definition, but one we feel is validated and the organisation itself would not be unhappy with) has ...

The nonprofit FinOps Foundation has announced news of American Express, Nvidia, AMD, ServiceNow and Snowflake all now joining as new ‘Premier Members’ as part of news related to the FinOps X ...

A new AI-powered development model enables developers to build complex platforms quickly with composable architecture, maintainability and enterprise-grade standards. Bit Cloud has announced Hope ...

The government sees artificial intelligence (AI) as a high octane fuel to boost productivity and drive the economy forward. The Regulatory Innovation Office (RIO) aims to cut bureaucracy to ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Amanda Razani, a technology journalist and podcast host with a strong background in technology media.  As the CWDN team was ...

Microsoft’s annual developer conference is rather like a litmus test, showing the general direction of travel of the software industry. Given the massive footprint of Windows in desktop computing, ...

Red Hat has announced the launch of llm-d, a new open source project designed to address generative AI’s future with inference at scale.  Powered by a native Kubernetes architecture, llm-d features ...

There’s a lot of really way-out product development happening in the monitor space. We’re now at a point in the industry when companies like Mobile Pixels are creating large curved monitors, ...

Red Hat used its annual developer gathering this month to detail a new offering that combines platform engineering tools with enhanced security capabilities. The company says it wants to help ...

Bostonian data platform company Starburst has updated its flagship software services, known as Starburst Enterprise Platform and Starburst Galaxy, with the additional boost that every other ...