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Software application developers are working hard to adapt to a changing landscape. Software tools are changing, codebases are changing, cloud formats and data integration practices are changing, AI ...

You might still have a Hitachi television at home or perhaps even a briefcase-style retro radio from the 1980s… but these days the company wants to be thought of in broader terms. The company’s ...

As every good software engineer knows, not all clouds are equal. Where some instances are optimised for compute processing, some are tuned for analytics, specific Input/Output (I/O) prowess, ...

Red Kubes is a provider of a turn-key out-of-the-box (Ed: enough hyphens already!) Kubernetes-based container platform product. The company has now open sourced the Otomi Container Platform ...

SAP is many things. It is a database company, it is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) company, it is a data analytics company, it is a User eXperience company, it is a financial software tools ...

More than ‘just’ a low-code software company these days, Portugal-founded OutSystems will be 20-years old next year and the company now stands for an application platform designed to provide ...

If anyone were in any doubt, the future is cloud. Just to clarify, the future is cloud and the future of cloud is hybrid cloud. For the record, the future is cloud and the future of cloud is hybrid ...

If Jamie Oliver (other celebrity chefs are available) launched a service named Tastiest Ever Chef, you might not think it that unusual… but it’s a brand naming convention that we don’t often find ...

Software intelligence company Dynatrace enjoys tracing, dynamically, obviously. As such then, the fourth generation of its distributed tracing and code-level analysis technology, PurePath captures, ...

Champion of continuous intelligence Sumo Logic spends its time looking inside the state of the modern application technology stack, including changing trends in cloud and application adoption and ...

As Tears For Fears would say: everybody wants to rule the world…  … but as Equinix, Inc. would say: everybody wants to scale to the breadth of potentially web-scale operational scope and the best ...

Whenever anyone tells you that technology needs an ever-increasing injection of agility, you would be forgiven for a) possibly starting to yawn - but also b) predominantly thinking about the ...

Question: how do you build a hybrid cloud strategy? To start with, it’s a good idea to think about having Kubernetes at the core, to enable the orchestration of container workloads around the ...

Shipa is a cloud native application management framework company. Ketch enables developers to deploy cloud native applications to Kubernetes without a single YAML file, so no Kubernetes expertise ...

Nobody ever stops to ask why infrastructure configuration compliance and automation company Puppet, is called Puppet. But of course, it’s obvious, a ‘real world’ puppet’s core infrastructure is ...

Splunk derives its name from the American term for potholing or caving. Spelunking Spelunkers dive down into the depths of the earth to look for the lower substrate layers that make up our planet. ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Taariq Lewis, CEO and founder of  Promise  -- the company delivers onchain credit reputations, for the world, using digital ...

No coach potatoes in residence this month at Couchbase, or so it appears.  The self-styled multi-cloud-to-edge NoSQL database company (yeah, it’s a mouthful) has announced version 2.8 of Couchbase ...

Time was when the Computer Weekly Developer Network wouldn’t pass a 12-month without attending a veritable handful of Adobe developer events, seminars, conferences, use case tutorials and all ...

Dynatrace has presented an enhanced, bi-directional automatic integration between its own Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform and the ServiceNow Now Platform.  The union is intended to deliver ...

Tel Aviv headquartered Frontegg is a curiously named company. Does it translate to something special in native Hebrew? Did the company want a name that was completely new and unique? Did the ...

It’s autumn/fall conference season again, so pack your bags. Okay, we’re kidding (obviously), it is indeed autumn/fall conference season, but the only bag you’ll need to pack is one filled with ...

Complex elements of our existence can sometimes benefit from fragmentation. Fragmentation can be viewed as a way of breaking apart bigger, more complex and often more interwoven elements of ...

So, for once on this blog I thought I’d leave the “talking” to someone else or, more to the point, someone “elses”. My old mates at Netevents have soldiered on through this increasingly bizarre, ...

If you’re a technology company thinking of launching a service related to the open source Kubernetes cloud container orchestration system, then you are permitted to name that product with a K… ...

Legacy code is a thing. Now then, it’s not always a bad thing - you have to remember that legacy code is code that still works and is very likely in live production providing a working useful piece ...

Software intelligence Application Performance Management (APM) specialist Dynatrace didn’t let the summer slowdown stop its news train. The firm has been working on back-room engineering to now ...

Open source company Jetstack was acquired by Venafi (a certificate and key management for machine-to-machine connections specialist vendor) back in May of 2020. So was that good for the open ...

Chief among the products and processes appealing to developers are microservices, containers, Kubernetes and Continuous (Integration & Deployment) with a focus on automated testing. Embedded BI ...

AWS has come forward with a new developer offering, of quantum proportions. Amazon Braket is said to help developers (and researchers) get started with quantum computing with tools, simulators and ...

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Christopher Goes in his roles as lead developer of IBC  at Interchain GmbH.  Interchain GmbH is a wholly-owned subsidiary of ...

Storage can often be a question of ‘snorage’ i.e. it’s not the sexiest slice of the technology layer. Some of the developers inside Nutanix might agree with this twist, but some would probably be ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Steve Bryen in his role as senior developer advocate for UK and Ireland at Amazon Web Services. Among the several key ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Kelly Goetsch in his capacity as president of the MACH Alliance - a group that has come together to promote open tech ...

This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.   As we have initially ...

The world runs on data, no news there. The world runs on connected, often unstructured, complex to wrangle, tough to clean, classify and log, hard to lock down and troublesome to monitor data… ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by David Brown in his position as CEO of Toro Cloud -- the company is known for its low-code API-centric approach to ...

OpenTelemetry is an open source project created to provide a toolkit for cloud-native software observability... and, if anything, this is the age of software observability. The project has now ...

Kubernetes is a fast-evolving toolset, with a growing capability to deliver speed and agility in how enterprises deploy, scale and manage their applications. So what’s next for this container ...

What do gigantic mythical gorillas have in common with cloud connectivity tools? Answer: not much, usually, unless you consider Kong. Originally developed in Italy but now with headquarters in San ...

Unlike digital-first organisations, traditional businesses have a wealth of enterprise applications built up over decades, many of which continue to run core business processes.  In this series of ...

Some of your data is on your device/machine. Some of your data is in a datacentre… gently being drip-fed to you depending upon which application/cloud/web service you are using. Some of your data ...

Dynatrace used its annual Perform conference to detail the expansion of its digital experience management capabilities. This includes advanced analytics (and segmentation) of mobile app user ...

Dynatrace used its Perform conference 2020 in Las Vegas this week to announced new enhancements to its support for Kubernetes. The company's explainable AI engine Davis now 'automatically ingests' ...

This is a guest blogpost by Mark Armstrong, GM and GVP EMEA, Rimini Street. In the next 5-10 years I see three business and societal trends that will potentially lead to a radical shift in how we ...

Dynatrace has connected, collaborated, corroborated and cooperated on a new software huddle with Google and Microsoft. The organisation that calls itself a ‘software intelligence company’ is ...

Kicking off 2020’s conference season as regular as clockwork is Dynatrace with its Perform event from February 3 to 6 in Las Vegas. The Computer Weekly Developer Network team is once again bound ...

We’ve had convergence towards hybrid clouds and ‘universal’ applications, but now we are seeing divergence towards different cloud platforms, each offering its own flavour of interoperability. ...

Every company is now a software company, this much we already know. But now, every company wants to be a developer company, well… that’s the emerging message from some of industrys newer and more ...

Evaluating IT is complex. As much as the press has something of a love-hate relationship with technology analysts (did somebody say Magic Quadrant?), we do know that enterprise tech market analysis ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network team are big fans of robust data management, younger-breed tech mavericks who want to carve a new niche in the crowded information intelligence market, ...

This is a contributed piece for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Chris Pope, VP of innovation at ServiceNow. ServiceNow is a cloud-based platform company that specialises in ...

Continuous intelligence company Sumo Logic is has laid down its latest ‘state of the nation’ report. Specifically, the Continuous Intelligence: The State of Modern Applications and DevSecOps in the ...

Technology skills platform company Pluralsight acquired developer productivity specialist GitPrime back in Spring of this year. It was a move that made logical enough sense. This was a coming ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Nate Clinton, Designit executive director.  Designit offers integrated strategic design and innovation services, ...

CRM is, of course, Customer Relationship Management... apart from when it's not. Some days, CRM is CRM (as above)... but, increasingly, CRM is also Cloud Resource Management. This is a software ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) team is fond of craft beer, Mormon temples, clean air and an opportunity to dig into cloud-based enterprise technology learning platforms. That’s lucky ...

Pulsant specialises in managed cloud hosting, colocation and application hosting services. As a core competency, Pulsant works on hybrid (value-added) cloud solutions with a core focus on ...

With its roots and foundations in the open source Apache Cassandra database, Santa Clara headquartered DataStax insists that it likes to keep things open. As such, the company is opening a wider ...

According to wikis, hacker forum discussions and the team itself, Kubernetes is so-named because it translates from (κυβερνήτης in Greek) to governor, helmsman or captain -- and further, ...

Cloud-native infrastructure solutions provider Fairwinds has been shooting the breeze, blowing fresh air, firing up the wind turbines, enjoying the scent of... (Ed -- enough already, we get it, the ...

By goodness and by golly, hasn’t AI already thrown up its own set of buzzphrases? Many of them have come about as a result of the bias that was an inherent part of initial systems development in ...

We’re expanding our blockchain cryptocurrency vocabulary all the time. As such, Loopring may be the next term you add to your technology lexicon. Loopring is an open source and multilateral token ...

The technology industry likes to use the CRM acronym; it is normally used to shorten Customer Relationship Management (CRM) technologies. But CRM now means something else too; in these cloud-native ...

Tibco has made a direct developer play designed to drive recognition of its technologies in areas where programmers are looking to build cloud-native applications. Known for its integration, API ...

There is no formal acronym to celebrate the coming together of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) -- obviously it would be AIRPA if there was -- but the twining (or ...

One of the most interesting things about the recent Open Infrastructure Summit – the new name for the OpenStack users and friends conferences – in Denver was how many people wanted to know if I ...

Cloud-native machine data analytics platform company Sumo Logic has used its time in the ring at DockerCon 2019 to announce support for Docker Enterprise. The company wants to provide joint ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by David Moss in his role as regional director for western Europe at Avi Networks.  Moss writes… One dictionary definition of ...

You can love or hate Google Cloud. Some users have adopted the full suite of online apps, use a gmail address as their mail client of choice and even sign up as regular contributors to Google Maps. ...

The do say… if it’s not broke, don’t fix it. But that mentality doesn’t really cut it in the ‘let’s make everything perfect’ world of the software application developer, right? How frustrating is ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network team spoke this month to Will Cappelli in his role as CTO for EMEA and VP of product strategy at Moogsoft on the subject of just how far we need to understand ...

Infor builds business cloud software, this much we know. But this is software that is ‘specialised by industry’... a term used to convey its custom-aligned tuning to specific industry use cases ...

Big Switch Networks describes itself as the cloud-first networking company. The firm focuses on what public cloud-style networking matched with hybrid cloud consistency. News this month sees the ...

Progress puts forward another (arguably weighty) hand in the low-code game this week. The Boston, MA-based application development firm has upped the spec on its Progress Kinvey platform with extra ...

The privately held Nginx will be acquired for a total enterprise value of approximately £500 million. Nginx points to its open source community as one of the most attractive elements of the ...

Lumigo, a Tel Aviv based startup, has announced the release of its serverless intelligence platform for developers. Software application developers with an appreciation for the higher (cloudier) ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Inside blog written by Chip Childers, CTO of the Cloud Foundry Foundation. Cloud Foundry is an open source project with an open contribution ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Bhanu Singh in his role as SVP of product management and cloud operations at OpsRamp. OpsRamp is a specialist in ...

Companies change their ‘descriptor intros’ (not an official term, but it should be) all the time. Ribbon Communications has tuned its message accordingly, given that the firm was only formed in its ...

Rubrik has announced Rubrik Build, a new open source community built around the organisation’s own cloud data management platform. The community created is said to be 100% public and 100% open ...

As all self-respecting geeks now, it’s important to bow to your sensei. When it comes to open source cloud-native user-centric monitoring, it may soon be important to bow to your Sensu. Sensu Go is ...

Enterprises are still exploring use cases to augment their business models with Artificial intelligence (AI)... this is a market that is very much still-nascent. Magical analyst house Gartner has ...

This is a contributed post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Ranga Rajagopalan is his capacity as CTO and co-founder of Avi Networks. Avi Networks is known for its Intelligent ...

Nginx is the company that likes to be called NGINX, except it’s not… because it’s not an acronym, it’s supposed to say “engine-X”, which is a cool snazzy name, right? Actually, Nginx would only ...

In the world of technology, there’s open source, but it is often open source served up in a somewhat limited or restricted format under an essentially proprietary overhang that leads quite quickly ...

Software applications need management, monitoring, testing and continual levels of deep tissue massage to ensure they run as intended and deliver to the user requirements for which they were ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network is heading to Las Vegas for the first of the technology industry's 2019 conferences -- and it's Dynatrace Perform 2019. Dynatrace is an Application Performance ...

One common theme with recent product tests and vendor briefings and that is - automation. Not that there's anything new here per se; back in the mid-90s I remember working on an extensive project ...

We all know the Internet of Things (IoT) -- it is the now widely accepted industry term used to describe a network of connected 'intelligent' devices that enjoy a degree on on board analytics and a ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network is in the engine room, covered in grease and looking for Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools for software application developers to use. This post is part of a ...

Developers will want to know what’s next with cloud for 2019, obviously. Key among concerns will be the need to engineer new automation services driven by AI -- and (no prizes for guessing), 2019 ...

Atlassian is of course best known (a few would argue loved) for its issue tracking software Jira. Optimizely on the other hand, is known for guess what? The clue was (obviously) in the name -- the ...

Ping (the identity defined security company, not the golf club company) has previewed its PingOne for Customers tool for developers The is cloud-based Identity as a Service (IDaaS) software for ...

We know that 2018 saw a lot of cloud (industry) consolidation. Companies merged, cloud alliances (yes, more of them) formed and platforms became more agnostic (where possible) in order that they ...

Wandering the partner pavilion areas is a pleasant enough distraction at any IT industry trade show. Attendees dart between stands grabbing packets of branding-sponsored jelly beans, T-shirts and ...

Nutanix used its ‘Next’ 2018 conference and exhibition series this week in Europe to detail the scope of its Xi Cloud Services offering. This is a suite of cloud computing functions specifically ...

Red Hat appears to be continuing with its normal course of business (and product roll out programme) under the ownership of its new IBM parent -- the firm’s OpenStack Platform 14 has been launched ...

Multi-cloud automation company Mesosphere has now come forward with Mesosphere Kubernetes Engine (MKE), Mesosphere DC/OS 1.12 and the public beta of Mesosphere Jupyter Service (MJS). Mesosphere ...

IBM’s proposed $34 billion purchase of Red Hat looks like a good idea for both sides. But is the proposed coming together borne of inspiration, or desperation? In other words, were the two ...