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The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ...

Back in the day (and we’re talking when Windows 95 was big news), we used to sit around in software vendor Proof-of-Concept labs looking at what should be physically possible given the current ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) now starts its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) now starts its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) now starts its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) now starts its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, ...

AWS kept crowd-favourite CTO Dr Werner Vogels’ keynote to the closing day of re:Invent 2021. Wogels took the stage after a personalised ‘Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas’ style video intro. ...

Developers build applications. Developers also build web, embedded, server-side and deeper system-level code streams that all rank as applications. Also, for now, developers build cloud ...

Cloud data backup and recovery as-a-service (Ed: is that DBRaaS?) company Hycu has joined the AWS 2021 partner news throng by announcing a preview of its Protégé for Amazon Web Services (AWS) ...

AWS re:Invent 2021 is big… but actually it’s not, this event has about a third of its normal number of attendees with somewhere around 20,000 people on-site, which (in the continuing Covid-19 era) ...

As AWS re:Invent 2021 swings into gear, we’re looking for software application development. More specifically, we’re looking for cloud software application development… and even more specifically ...

An AWS re:Invent partner appearance is a challenge. On the one hand, it’s fantastic exposure at one of the biggest IT events of the annual convention calendar, it’s a chance to be seen among some ...

In the Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) model of technology creation, definition and management, there are no cables, wires, widgets and connection plugs. It is sometimes referred to as programmable or ...

People talk a lot about cloud. These days, we’re seeing the discussion move onwards to talk about so-called modern cloud in the form of modern cloud software application development platforms, ...

If there is a central message emanating from this year’s Qualys Security Conference (QSC) in Las Vegas, it is the company’s mission to provide exhaustive tooling designed to shift left in order to ...

Qualys, Inc. staged its QSC 2021 conference in Las Vegas from November 15 to 18 and the Computer Weekly Developer Network was tuned in from the 'get-go' to listen to what the cloud-based IT, ...

Everybody in tech loves an acronym, so let’s have DS OSS GA gRPC API 4 Astra DB. While that’s not actually a term, that set of letters denotes DataStax’s open source software general availability ...

In the world of software application development, fuzzing is designed to find bugs.  Fuzzing or fuzz testing is an automated software testing technique that involves providing invalid, unexpected, ...

They (it, the company) call it the Road To re:Invent. When you’re as well-known as Amazon Web Services (AWS), the event starts long before the users get on site. As a result, there are already road ...

Grafana Labs wants to keep the banana factor down. Modern enterprise IT systems need to avoid slip-ups i.e. there should be no banana skins out there for the progressive enterprise that wants to ...

TriggerMesh is a cloud-native integration platform provider. This autum/fall season say the company announce the launch of the TriggerMesh Integration Platform as an open source project for ...

If there’s one thing that we (collectively, the IT industry) need to get us back into the usual swing and throng of software engineering conferences and events… it is (arguably) security. Covid-19 ...

Splunk had a busy autumn/fall conference season, the Computer Weekly Developer Network logged in ‘virtually’ to the annual .conf conference and exhibition to hear news of the company’s latest ...

A lot of edge computing isn’t that far out on the edge. Coined as a term to get us thinking about Internet of Things (IoT) deployments outside of the periphery and confined that normally defines ...

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) is gearing up for AWS re:Invent at the end of November and, yes, that’s an In Real Life (IRL) event i.e. real people elbow-bumps. But even with a forthcoming event ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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’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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The era of control planes has started. That’s what Upbound, the company behind the open source Crossplane project (now donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in full) thinks. Why ...

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) tells us that it’s on a mission. That mission is to build not just cloud-native software, that part should be obvious, right? Its self-stated mission is ...

Composable IT is increasingly being discussed across the industry, but the adoption and implementation at enterprise level can be challenging even for the best. This is a guest post for the ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Yves Junqueira in his position as CEO at YourBase – a software testing acceleration platform that automates the test ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Antony Bourne in his role as SVP Industries at IFS -- IFS develops and delivers enterprise software for companies around ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Aidan Hobson Sayers, technical director at Hadean. Hadean was founded in 2015 with a mission to democratise supercomputing ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written in full by Rahul Pradhan in his role as senior director for product and engineering in the cloud division at Couchbase. ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Kelly Goetsch in his role as chief product officer at commercetools --  a cloud-based headless commerce platform that ...

This post is written by Ariel Assaraf in his capacity as CEO at Coralogix -- a stateful streaming analytics platform that produces real-time insights and long-term trend analysis with no reliance ...

This is a guest post by Anthony Cusimano in his role as solutions evangelist at Veritas Technologies -- a company known for its work in cloud storage, backup & recovery services, data ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Daniel Warner in his capacity as CEO and co-founder of LGN -- a company known as a developer of artificial perception ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Adam Dossa in his role as chief technology officer at Polymath -- the company is known for its technology that provides a ...

There’s that strange moment when you walk into an enterprise technology ‘show floor’ after the breakfast, keynotes, handshakes (hand sanitiser application) and the point where you grab a free ...

The is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Doron Sherman in his capacity as VP of developer relations at Cloudinary. Cloudinary is known for its cloud-based image and ...

The global technology stack is moving towards a more universally composable interconnected multi-layered (and multi-tenant) architecture where hybrid-multi-poly cloud resources are coalesced into ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Guy Sayar in his capacity as field CTO for EMEA region at HashiCorp -- the company is known for its modular DevOps ...

We all know where the edge is, it’s that peripheral zone of data existence somewhere near the outer reaches of the western spiral arm of the galaxy in the Internet of Things (IoT). Given that we ...

Civo (pronounced see-vo, not chi-vo) is a cloud native service provider known for its work with Kubernetes. The company thinks that around half of what it would identify as cloud developers are ...

Copado might sound like some type of tropical fruit drink, but it is in fact a DevOps specialist organisation that embraces cloud-native computing for what it calls a ‘true multi-cloud DevOps’ ...

Grafana Labs specialises in what it calls ‘open and composable’ operational dashboards. That’s dashboards for viewing virtualized compute stack metrics, logs and traces - not dashboards in any ...

First, we had User eXperience (UX). Then, although it’s a still-nascent notion that’s not widely discussed, we had Developer eXperience (DX). Now, largely due to the nature of the web and the ...

The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) is an open source software foundation that seeks to improve the world’s capacity to deliver software with security and speed. The team has this summer said ...

Information technology systems are like bank accounts. No, you don’t get a free pen and a fancy ‘touchless’ plastic card with your photo in the corner and an animal design of your choice… well, ...

How much cloud data management does any single instance or any single organisation’s IT stack actually need? Don’t try and answer that, it’s a trick question. The answer is obviously impossible to ...

In an open source originated commentary from Red Hat’s Irshad Raihan, director of product marketing, Computer Weekly Open Source Insider welcomes Raihan’s comments on the subject of computational ...

It was somewhere around a decade ago that Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst (now president at IBM as he is) used the composability term as a hook for his keynote. “I want to talk to you about the era of ...

Software runs on data and data is often regarded as the new oil. So it makes sense to put data as close to where it is being processed as possible, in order to reduce latency for performance-hungry ...

Software runs on data and data is often regarded as the new oil. So it makes sense to put data as close to where it is being processed as possible, in order to reduce latency for performance-hungry ...

Connect, unify & predict. You can almost smell the cellophane wrapping on the technology conference T-shirts as every vendor worth its salt emblazons its give-aways with phases like this. ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Dick Morrell, who tweets at @ThatPodcastChap and describes himself as a father, podcaster, a Linux veteran and open source ...

Cloud is complicated. Yes, cloud computing is generally agreed to be a route to providing compute, storage, analytics and an increasing amount of AI-engine power supplied as-a-Service, plus it ...

Splunk’s new Observability Cloud has launched this month, at a time when observability has become one of the hot/darling/killer (choose your own hype label) terms circulating across the technology ...

Atlassian has selected enterprise cloud application and data service observability platform company Dynatrace as its launch partner for its Open DevOps initiative. Atlassian has (arguably, boldly) ...

Armory is an open source continuous delivery software company. The company has this year introduced Armory Minnaker (rhymes with Spinnaker, for obvious reasons - see more below), a virtual machine ...

With only a proportion of developers classified as key workers (where their responsibilities perhaps included the operations-side of keeping mission-critical and life-critical systems up and ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network is deep in container-land, we’re Kubed into Kubernetes and we’re about as hybrid multi-cloud cloud-natively virtualised into abstraction Nirvana as its ...

After our extensive enterprise containerisation series and subsequent feature entitled ‘Preparing for enterprise class containerisation’, the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider team sat down ...

This is a guest blogpost by Dmitri Krakovsky, Chief Product Officer, Unit4 The world of enterprise software has changed dramatically in the last five years. The first-generation of ...

What a difference a decade can make. When we looked at the world of private cloud almost a decade ago, it was a new idea to many people – so new, in fact, that we had to define it for them. In ...

Yes we’re still in lockdown (or a version of it) and all meetings are virtual, but the Computer Weekly Developer Network is still talking to members of the industry glitterati about containers. ...

This is a Q&A features David Meyer in his role as SVP of products at Databricks - a data lakehouse provider. Computer Weekly: What do enterprises need to think about when it comes to ...