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Scot McKnealy, the former CEO of Sun Microsystems, once proclaimed that the network is the computer. It is true that without a network, the apps we all rely on to manage our busy lives would be ...

Open source cloud data platform company Aiven has announced a streaming ecosystem for Apache Kafka. The intention is to offer a robust and fully open source real-time data ecosystem with the latest ...

This is a contributed piece for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written in full by Liam Randall in his role as co-creator and maintainer of CNCF wasmCloud and CEO Cosmonic - a company that aims ...

Partner news is rarely interesting. For the most part, partner announcements roll out a contrived reel of mutual backslapping bonhomie designed to make both companies (or more) feel good about ...

TriggerMesh has announced Shaker, an open source AWS EventBridge (serverless event bus service) alternative. Driven by trends such as platform engineering and serverless, platform engineers, ...

France/US-headquartered AI biotech company Owkin is open sourcing the Artificial Intelligence (AI) software behind Melloddy and Substra. Big fans of ‘open science’, Owkin hopes to help ...

In 2023, the office print sector will remain vulnerable to the impact of economic uncertainty, the energy crisis and supply chain disruption. The Great Resignation is turning into the Great Layoff, ...

The car crash that has been unfolding during the Post Office IT scandal inquiry puts a big question mark over trust in IT and whether consultants truly work in our best interest. Thousands of ...

AWS CTO Werner Vogels always delivers a fairly hard core developer-centric keynote with plenty of gusto, often wearing a punk rock era T-shirt. This year's AWS re:Invent 202 saw him announce the ...

While the focus on the Computer Weekly Developer Network is more generally focused on creation, build actions and (the clue is in the name) developing development for software application ...

Just to cover off (in technology circles) anyone who happens to live in a cave, under a rock or in case anyone has spent their last few days and weeks on the moon (where we presume Internet access ...

There’s analytics, then, there’s so-called ‘investigative intelligence analytics’, which is (presumably) analytics one louder. This perhaps extended notion of analytics is what Siren does, a ...

Geolocation technology specialist TomTom (TOM2) has told software application developers focused on mapping applications and related services that it will now introduce ‘significantly improved’ ...

This is a guest blogpost by Ali I. Riaz, CEO of OrbitMI Maritime is one of the most important parts of our global supply chain. Ship owners, ship operators and the entire maritime ecosystem must ...

First, cloud happened. Then, the global pandemic ensued and software application developers - particularly those working in environments designed to bring cloud-native functions forward to enable ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Kin Lane in his role as chief evangelist at Postman, an API platform used by more than 20 million developers and 500,000 ...

This is a guest blogpost by Neo4j’s Jim Webber, who says graphs are a way of managing complexity that is all around us, so why not work with it directly? As DB Engines has been tracking, graph ...

The logical choice for IT leaders is to migrate as many workloads as possible into the public cloud. But, not everything can be moved and if Gartner’s IT spending forecast is anything to go by, ...

Most people in IT probably think they know what application modernisation is. For many it involves application refactoring - rebuilding the app using technologies such as containers and ...

Fauna is a distributed document-relational database company, delivered as a cloud API. The company has this quarter introduced intelligent routing, a service intended to provide developers with a ...

This is a guest post by Shaun McGirr, EMEA RVP of AI Strategy, Dataiku Some companies see AI as a tool to help them do what they already do at lower cost or faster, while others see AI as something ...

At the recent VMware Explore conference in Barcelona, there was an elephant in the hall: Broadcom. VMware execs spoke about the $61bn acquisition positively, confidently even. It would be business ...

Tech firms spell their names in creative ways. Not content with the dot.something style now common to many, Tel Aviv based compute orchestration for AI workload company Run:ai almost went full ...

Diversity matters. As we all now know and appreciate, the need to champion, uphold and insist upon diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) matters at every level of business. It also matters at ...

According to a new report, most companies use at least one open source security tool to secure Kubernetes. In a survey of The State of Kubernetes Open Source Security, published by cybersecurity ...

Applications perform, sometimes at different levels. While we recognise the presence of short-lived, ephemeral, temporary lightweight applications that could be called low (or at least basic ...

Cristiano Ronaldo has chased his pearl-clutching condemnation of Manchester United’s unbridled marketing drive with the announcement of his own NFT collection. The preening Ozymandias of football ...

Modest enough in its core company designator and descriptor, Workday refers to itself as a specialist in enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources. Many go further - it’s not ...

In October, electric vehicle (EV) charger manufacturer Andersen, went into administration. These devices are supposedly smart; they communicate with servers and in the future, will offer a way for ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jon Sneyers in his role as senior image researcher at Cloudinary, a company that works with brands around the world to ...

Cyber and STEM employers should help provide, train and support governors to help secure schools, safeguard pupils and organise careers guidance.

Could a small change in English Governing structures within secondary schools unlock the skill-based economy we strive for?

This is a contributed piece for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Daniel Bartholomew, CTO at Section. Section is known for hosting and delivery of cloud-native workloads that are ...

The creator of a VR company bought by Facebook in 2014 has come up with the idea of a headset that can enhance the experience of dying in a game by also killing you in real life. “Only the threat ...

The BBC’s recent three-part show on Elon Musk, tirelessly narrated in the sultry style of an M&S advert for a facetious, cannabis-seasoned gammon joint, veers into puff-piece territory way too ...

Snow in Las Vegas? It actually did on ‘day zero’ (aka registration, training and welcome reception) of Qualys Security Conference (QSC) 2022 North America, held at The Venetian in Las Vegas from ...

Among the more interesting takeaways from the Gartner Symposium in Barcelona was a keynote on the afternoon of the second day by Andrew McAfee, co-founder and co-director of MIT’s Initiative on the ...

Developer security firm Snyk (pronounced sneak) has announced its SnykLaunch Fall 2022 release. This iteration includes extensions to the company’s existing Developer Security Platform - so the ...

Continuing to gain traction in the data management space, Snowflake wrapped up its its Snowday 2022 software release update event with one final leg in San Francisco, to form the final stop on its ...

While much of last month’s KubeCon-CloudNativeCon North America was focused on specific software projects, case studies and tech challenges, there was a discernible undercurrent of concern. And it ...

In this guest post, Chris Darvill, vice president of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) solutions engineering at cloud-native API platform provider Kong, on how to make the move from monolith to ...

Technology needs law. Equally and perhaps more so, the legal industry needs to understand what is changing around information technology. Alongside the need to move off of paper-based statute books ...

Diana Tomova graduated from the University of Essex with European Studies and modern languages in 2018. She now works as a system admin at Defra and is also embarking on a degree in Computer ...

Hardy toughened souls (capable of braving the cold) as they are, the Computer Weekly Developer Network team is headed to Stockholm, Sweden, for Workday Rising Europe 2022. The event runs from ...

Logitech makes quite good kit. In fairness, Logitech makes really pretty good desktop accessories – and it also makes gamepads, joysticks, speakers, headphones, trackballs, scanners and a whole ...

This is a guest blogpost by Steve Neat, General Manager, EMEA, at Alation For a long time, the overall objective of any data transformation has been to get all of an organisation’s data into one ...

These thoughts on API management form part of the Computer Weekly Developer Network’s API series and come from Kamakshi Narayan in her role as director of product management at SnapLogic - the ...

Commonly in cyber security-related conversations, strategic references to the edge, boundary, endpoint, cloud etc are commonplace as potential areas of vulnerability. However, in several recent ...

It’s all too easy to get so engrained in the world of IT that sometimes you need a reminder that the globe is a large and diverse place; one that isn’t purely digital. Such a reminder came most ...

When an 80 year-old relative asks you how she can use her phone to both pay for shopping and get her supermarket loyalty points, like her friends do, you know that digital wallets are a success. ...