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Arguably, open source is not an alternative to commercial software. Rather, it is a way to create software collaboratively, and at a global scale. Active contributors in the open source community ...

As all self-respecting geeks will know, it's important to bow to your sensei. But how do we train for Artificial Intelligence (AI) competency? Arboreally named AI company Bonsai from Berkeley, CA ...

Despite the potential of ‘digital transformation’ and IT in general, many organisations find the reality a little disappointing. Development takes longer than expected, quality is lacking and what ...

The UK's growing fintech sector could be hit very, very hard by a bad deal or no deal between the EU and UK

Pusher is a developer tools company that specialises in providing what it calls 'hosted building blocks' for programmers. The company has this month released Pusher Chatkit. This is a 'specialised' ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Ides Vanneuville in his capacity as director of systems engineering for EMEA at Avi Networks. Avi Networks is known for its ...

This is the 1000th post on the Computer Weekly Developer Network in its seven year of existence. It would have been inappropriate not to thank all the firms and their representative communications ...

Neurala, Inc. is known for its work developing its own Neurala Brain. This is a piece of deep learning neural network software that makes smart products like robots, drones, toys, self-driving ...

The is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Brian Dawson in his capacity as DevOps evangelist at CloudBees -- CloudBees describes itself as the 'hub' of enterprise ...

There's on old saying in communications - when you have no news, do a survey. As contrived, manipulated and affected as these things typically are, the Computer Weekly Developer Blog now has ...

Not exactly labelled as open source, but free nonetheless... API specialist Postman is offering its Postman 5.0 version with many of its paid Pro-version features now free for limited-quantity ...

At the Red Hat Summit this week, scores of developers and business executives descended in Boston in one of the biggest gatherings of its kind in the global open source community. The message to ...

The question of build vs buy was the fundamental question posed, framed and postulated by Jeff Lawson in his role as CEO of Twilio during a keynote address delivered at this year's Mobile World ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network blog written by Chetan Manjarekar in his roles as senior VP and head of Syntel’s Digital One practice. Manjarekar writes as follows... ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Burke Holland in his capacity as director of developer relations at Progress -- the firm is a specialist in backend ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) could help the DevOps profession, massively.  Think about it, all that control and ability to connect and coordinate things, elements, code streams and workflows ...

This is a guest post written for the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog by Daniel Jones in his capacity as CTO of EngineerBetter -- the organisation is a member of the Cloud Foundry ...

"Do you know Gartner? Well, yeah, we're not like them." This is the opening line oft used by James Governor in his capacity as co-founder and analyst at tech-focused analyst house Red Monk. Using ...

Technologists in the 'Holy Land' were working away over the festive period and informed the Computer Weekly Developer Network blog of news emanating from Tel Aviv based Typemock. The firm is known ...

In terms of technology events, Microsoft’s Connect () is an interesting proposition. To some extent staged so that an online audience can log in and attend virtually, the physical event itself does ...

Software application developers looking to produce the 'next big thing' and make a million might also like to think about the wider social implications of the technologies that they are so ...

Data centric software application developers, software architects and all manner of DBAs and sysadmins are becoming ever more connected to the back end core of the data warehouse in an age when ...

API platform provider Restlet has updated its Restlet Studio API design tool. The key features here work to help API developers  transition between development, test and deployment tools within the ...

Earlier this year, Computer Weekly had the privilege of visiting JP Morgan’s development centre in Glasgow.

DevOps should be an all-powerful omniscient being that extends its all-seeing eye into every crevice of our programming universe to control the hearts and minds of every data engineer and developer ...

One of the first lines of defence an organisation should have in its battle against cyber-crime is up to date software. There are challenges in achieving this, but they can be surmounted.

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network by Stuart Harris in his role as CIO and founder of Red Badger. Red Badger describes itself as an experience-led software development ...

Wercker is a container-centric developer automation platform for cloud-native applications and microservices. The central technology proposition here is 'technology that goes beyond mere build ...

Pushing further... Hootsuite has announced video integrations with YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

First there was Artificial Intelligence (AI), then came machine learning... neural networks and finally cognitive computing technology.