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MicroStream 5.0 has arrived… and, now, the Java persistence framework is open source. MicroStream is a Java-native object graph persistence engine for storing any complex Java object graph or any ...

As every environmental naturalist and hard core rave fan knows, the jungle is massive and jungle [music] is massive. Data is also massive, so much so that it can easily be described as vast. ...

It was kind of love at first sight. Editorial disclosure: I paid in full for this product and received no input from Samsung for this story. It’s a bit like smartphones, I personally don’t think ...

It’s a cliché, but why are we still reinventing wheels? It is increasingly clear that the real value and opportunity in open-source isn’t so much the actual software itself, but the collaborative ...

Tor is free and open-source software for enabling anonymous communication by directing Internet traffic through a free, worldwide, volunteer overlay network consisting of more than seven thousand ...

We’ve all seen the detective shows on TV. The cops find a CCTV picture of the likely “perp”. The put-upon junior detective is tasked with wading through a database of photos in the hope of finding ...

We need insurance against data bias, particularly (obviously) in the world of Machine Learning (ML) as it feeds out Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. Errors relating to ML data bias occur when ...

In the UK, the weather has ‘turned’ (as they say) and the end-of-year holidays period is already showing itself i.e. the shopping channel is flogging sparkly Christmas lights and the mince pies are ...

Kubecon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021 is an all-week affair. This means that the end of week slot is just as packed with announcements, keynotes, breakout sessions and roundtables as the ...

Kubecon CloudNativeCon North America 2021 was one of the very first In Real Life (IRL) conferences to be staged in the wake of what we all hope is the start of the tail end of the Covid-19 ...

This is guest blog post by James Fisher, Chief Product Officer, Qlik No, it’s not a typo – Explainable BI. Not to be mixed up with its close relative, Explainable AI. It is rapidly becoming ...

Seizing the market opportunity for sustainable and cost-effective home printing, Epson is aiming to reinforce its brand message in this space and raise awareness of its EcoTank range.

Cilium (pronounced ‘see-lee-um’) provides networking, security and observability for cloud native environments by acting as a CNI (Container Network Interface) and enhanced networking layer for ...

The Linux Foundation and The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) have announced the Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA) exam. The exam and its resulting certification is now in beta ...

Cloud comes in many shapes, sizes, specialisms, flavours and optimisations. The last two decades of cloud computing development have seen us evolve from public cloud to hybrid instances of private ...

If, like me, you often find yourself hunting for the notes you took in an online meeting – and then for those that your colleagues also took on the same call – you might like the new feature we ...

Kubernetes is quite popular. The open source cloud container orchestration technology has grown faster, wider and more broadly than almost any other aspect of IT in recent years... so we can go ...

Kubernetes has emerged as the de facto orchestration layer for modern cloud-native environments. Very few people (if any) would argue with that statement and proposition. We know today that ...

Kubernetes adoption has grown rapidly.  But perhaps that should not be a surprise.  Cloud is an essentially composable, compartmentalised, collection of componentised collected compute (and storage ...

How can MPS providers help their customers get ahead of the talent drain with technology to drive better employee experience, engagement and productivity across the hybrid work environment?

As we know, the web is a network. As we also know, the cloud model of services bases compute, analytics and data storage is also an essentially networked beast. As also now know, the use of ...

People have been selling collections of products and tools for centuries, and with the advent of commercial IT and off-the-shelf software, IT suppliers were quick to follow. There are various ways ...

How much attention do you pay to the pros and cons of software and service bundling? I was reminded of the topic on a recent briefing call with Dave Russell, Veeam’s VP of enterprise strategy, ...

UiPath wrapped up its Forward IV (yes, the next one is called Forward V) user, customer and partner technology conference in Las Vegas this week with the flesh-pressing that comes with the ...

Moderne is a code automation company that works to accelerate software development by automating code migration and fixes across a company’s application stack and codebase.  The OpenRewrite team ...

Much has been written about Windows 11, and many YouTube videos have been published. If you want a detailed walkthrough of the good, the bad, the confusing and the contentious, you’ll find no ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network team is at UiPath Forward IV 2021 and that means three things: UiPath news and insight into the latest streams driving Robotic Process Automation (RPA); a ...

It almost feels not quite real, but it is… technology conference keynotes in Las Vegas are actually back and happening - as they say - In Real Life (IRL). First to show a bold hand in this space is ...

Git has become a prefix in and of itself. Obviously stemming from Linux creator Linus Torvalds’ self-deprecating joke that he might be ‘a bit of an old git’ at times, the now capitalised Git ...

Chinese telecommunications, data and cloud company Huawei also makes software. Logically, its smartphones, tablets and other devices carry a degree of home-baked goods, with its Emotion User ...

It’s like a London bus or a TechEd, you wait for ages and then - suddenly - several come along at once. Microsoft and SAP haven’t been the only firms to use the TechEd label to name their developer ...

How do we integrate the lessons learned since March 2020 and build on the existing abundance of material to “construct a really cracking educational experience to ensure that lifelong learning is ...

The buzzy honey-based developers over at CloudBees have been busy this autumn/fall season. The company (known for its software delivery technologies) has announced CloudBees Compliance, a ...

Focus public funding/support and performance monitoring on the delivery of micro-modules to get trainees into jobs rather apprenticeships, degrees and qualifications

In the context of Windows 11, the question is not necessarily whether it is better or worse than Windows 10 or whether it is worth upgrading. It’s about how useful it is. “What is the role of a ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Abby Xiaotong Su, graduate software engineer at a large e-commerce company, talks about her unexpected route into tech, and discusses the many roads into ...

Most of the skills in demand today will need updating inside a couple of years. Lockdown saw massive advances in the use of on-line content, support and mentoring but it also opened massive divides ...

For far too long now, many vendors seem to have assumed that the IT requirements of small and mid-sized businesses are less complex than those of larger organisations. As a consequence, many of the ...

Peritus.ai is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) recommendation engine for developer self-service, but what does that mean? It’s not as convoluted, contrived or concocted as it sounds, not at all… ...

This is a guest blogpost by Gero Decker, General Manager SAP Business Process Intelligence & Co-founder of Signavio. Despite the growing importance of successful digital transformation, a ...

It seems like the simplest thing. Compose an email message and then CC colleagues. But,due to a Ministry of Defence blunder,  this simple action, built into pretty much every piece of email client ...

First, there was code. Then, the Earth cooled… and then there was low-code. Sometime after, there was also no-code and ultimately we saw that sometimes the two toolsets collided in a whirl of ...

From cars to consumer electronics, the global chip shortage is disrupting supply chains and causing price rises across industries. The print industry is not immune, with printers and MFPs reliant ...

In this guest post to mark Sustainable Development Week, Arnaud de Bermingham, president and founder of cloud provider Scaleway sets out why the datacentre industry must come clean about its water ...

They call it #TeamCloudNative. It’s a hashtag that represents the combined forces of Kubecon and CloudNativeCon. The news here is that Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has now finalised all ...

Is the UK government about to make a new announcement on its plans for a single digital identity for citizens to access online public services? On 22 September, two seemingly coordinated ...

It was all the way back in 2019 that we last posed the question... and asked what we could expect from a UiPath Forward conference. Back then, we spoke about who or what UiPath is… and we even ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Greg Ouillon, CTO, New Relic, talks about digital retail and how it has shifted during the pandemic. The last year has certainly changed the high street ...

This is a guest post by Computer Weekly security editor Alex Scroxton, which features in the 21 September issue of the Computer Weekly digital magazine as its leader column. It is hard to sum up ...

Push Technology develops real-time data streaming and messaging software. The company has now tabled a new personalised client data delivery capability in the company’s Diffusion Intelligent ...

This is a guest post by Richard Gerdis, vice-president for Asia-Pacific at LogicMonitor IT teams in Asia are under nonstop pressure to work faster and deliver better results – with fewer employees ...

StreamNative is a unified messaging and streaming platform. With native streaming in mind, it’s good to know that StreamNative was founded by the original developers of Apache Pulsar. As many will ...

Ordnance Survey (OS) created its OS Data Hub a year ago in a move aimed to (hopefully) transform the way developers access and work with OS data. The Computer Weekly team has followed this ...

I should add that I too am interesting in life-long learning but that is not enough. It can be a gateway to training but learning the theory of tennis is not sufficient to produce a winner, let ...

Earlier this year Microsoft announced that it acquired Kinvolk, the creator and distributor of Flatcar Container Linux, a community Linux distribution designed for container workloads, with high ...

We know what a backend is in software terms - it's all the componentry that go towards bringing our platform and infrastructure layers into being so that we can start to create code-based ...

The launch of dating app Power of Music (POM), which matches up users who like the same music to spare them from ever having to grow as human beings or have any new experiences whatsoever, has ...

In the light of the forthcoming party conferences, and rumoured reshuffles, I hope the Government can quickly move on to making the UK once again a world-leader in technological education and ...

Sumo Logic can’t get through a press statement without using the term ‘continuous intelligence’, but that’s okay… every firm is allowed some form of core descriptor and it does explain what the ...

Perhaps there are application areas where law enforcement technology should not be used, one of the witnesses at a recent Justice and Home Affairs Committee meeting warned. Experts from the US, New ...

Ah – the return of “normality” in the UK – i.e., people are still getting ill but the government admits it doesn’t care any longer, other than by increasing taxes… But enough of the ...

The low-code/no-code cognoscenti (arguably) don’t need to tell us that the pandemic highlighted just how acute the shortage of traditional software developers is... as if to form some sort of hors ...

As we take a momentary breather after a truly larger than expected number of commentaries on the nature of the ephemeral composable IT stacks that we are all building now, some people still have ...

This is a guest blogpost by Jason Kingdon, chairman and CEO, Blue Prism Link all computers together – why would you do that? Way back in the 1980s various academic and scientific institutions ...

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), is, just in case you hadn’t noticed, a big company. As such, it can pretty much name its products however it likes… and Amazon DevOps Guru is a case in point. Not ...

A lot goes on at GitLab. Among the work executed over the summer season was the acquisition of UnReview, a machine learning (ML) based technology for automatically identifying appropriate expert ...

When we researched the topic of Agile development back in 2008, it was against a backdrop of widespread suspicion of the approach. While the hype was beginning to build around iterative development ...

For the government’s Innovation Strategy to fulfil its 2035 vision, it must recognise cloud computing’s role as a driver of transformation, says James Maynard, solutions director at public sector ...

It’s always tough when vendors start their company name with a number… primarily because no sentence starts particularly well with a numerical value.  But it worked for 3M, so let's move on to 3T ...

Looking cynically at the fact that Windows 11 will be available as a free upgrade from October 5, the timing of the new operating system release coincides with the need for the PC industry to ...

In a world of ever-fast-changing cloud-based applications, a modern approach to application development is needed, argues vice president for platform strategy at OutSystems Miguel Lopes - this is a ...

In a world of ever-fast-changing cloud-based applications, an augmented approach to application development is needed, argues vice president for platform strategy at OutSystems Miguel Lopes — this ...

AtomicJar is a startup on a mission to make integration testing easier for developers across the software development lifecycle. The organisation aims to serve the Testcontainers community, build ...

Jeremiah was a bullfrog, so he was always comfortable in water, or on land. JFrog Ltd on the other hand has decided to call itself a liquid software company, not because it doesn’t boast the ...

Lifelong learning is again fashionable. The on-line world is awash with on-line education and training materials from “uncurated” global sites such Udemy (155,000 offerings), through sectoral sites ...

JetBrains is the company that created an extended family of integrated development environments (IDE) for various programming languages and designed Kotlin, a modern programming language that ...

The Openreach "Equinox" offer puts Government plans to expedite broadband roll out at risk. It jeopardises the roll out plans of Virgin, Vodafone, City Fibre, Hyperoptic and fifty or so players by ...

Known for its observability technology, New Relic this year joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Governing Board as a platinum member. It was a natural biological organic fit, say ...

APIs are everything. Actually, they’re not, they’re just really important in the context of modern cloud applications, services and distributed networks that rely upon the interconnectivity and ...

As someone who already owns the original Samsung Galaxy Z Flip, I did wonder if it was worth upgrading to the Galaxy Z Flip3 5G. Is the trade-in offer worth it? As a registered Samsung user, I ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network has been in pieces.  Not literally, emotionally or figuratively as such, but in terms of our approach to ingesting and analysing the state of the technology ...

Although Akamai sounds a lot like it could be a Japanese games developer company, the organisation is in fact a cloud-services focused Content Delivery Network (CDN) business with a focus on cyber ...

There is barely a week left to cement the improvements made over the past year and turn potential disaster into triumph by adopting the recommendations of the Better Hiring Institute for a smooth ...

The datacentre industry is going through a boom time at the moment, but operators must ensure all this growth does not come at a cost to the environment, writes Computer Weekly senior editor, ...

People like to think that the way IT works with business has changed dramatically in the past 13 years, but have the important challenges faced back then really been addressed? This week, we look ...

Boston Dynamics’ latest attempt to promote its “most dynamic” humanoid robot, Atlas, has seen the firm release footage showcasing its prowess at parkour. Benjamin Stephens, control lead of the ...

GUEST BLOG: In this guest post, Laurent Homeyer, retail and hospitality industry advisor in EMEA & APJ at Workday, discusses the need for digital skills as physical retail starts to re-open.  ...

Chief storytelling officer at Tallinn, Estonia headquartered CybExer Lauri Almann is passionate on the subject of cybersecurity and wants to see a new approach to knowledge at a number of levels. ...

In this guest post, Darren Watkins, managing director of colocation provider Virtus Data Centres shares his top tips on what enterprises should be looking for in a datacentre partner. Those of us ...

Linode is not afraid to be a bit different, or so it appears. The firm takes an open stance on sensitive issues and even uses a quirky company descriptor. Those not familiar with the Philly ...

There has, of course, been a continuing global pandemic. As the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) contagion took hold and world governments started to implement national and local lockdowns, the technology ...

In the many years I’ve been testing and analysing the security side of IT, one evident point is that the classic forms of attack: identifying common vulnerabilities and Distributed Denial of ...

Open source is all about data, obviously… but we’ve seen these last few months really amplify the notion of data-in-motion. It wasn’t so long ago that Confluent for Kubernetes arrived, a platform ...

Software supply chain automation is a perhaps un-loved sub-genre of the total information technology landscape. But this harsh reality is not so at Maryland-based Sonatype, the company that likes ...

Clearly big tuna fans, Yellowfin is an analytics vendor that combines action-based dashboards, automated discovery and what it likes to call ‘data storytelling’, which is presumably some form of ...

IT resilience and security is essential to today's businesses, so dependent are they on their IT systems. For some of those who have been around this industry more than a decade or two, this raises ...

Algorithms got themselves a bad name in the summer of 2020. This year’s Scottish Highers and rest of the UK A-Levels results have been algo-free. But not free of their usual class bias: private ...

The Holy Land’s technology sector continues to expand it seems, Tel Aviv-based Spectral is making noise relating to its Preflight tool. The company claims to be a developer-first cyber specialist, ...

There’s that great line uttered by Winona Ryder in the movie of the same name when she says, “Maybe I was just crazy, maybe it was the sixties, maybe I was just a girl, interrupted.” The last comma ...

This is a guest blogpost by Oded Karev, General Manager of NICE Advanced Process Automation In the myth of Daedalus and Icarus, looking to escape from Crete, the latter finds himself with wings, ...