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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 ...

This is a guest piece written for the Computer Weekly Developer Network by Bruce Orcutt in his role as senior vice president of Product Marketing at ABBYY -- a company known for its foundations in ...

In fairness to the branding cheese-factor that comes with many company names or product brands, Harness is a sensible moniker for a software delivery platform company. The firm used its developer ...

A recent study has put a spotlight on a worrying trend in software development. Open source project maintainers are not being paid for their work. Or, if they do get paid, on average, they can ...

Data and information governance is extremely important today, perhaps even more so than it was in 2008, when Freeform Dynamics ran a study looking at what was being done to enhance capability in ...

Earlier this week, the US Supreme Court ruled that Google did not infringe Oracle copyright on the Java SE API (application programming edition). The fact the US Supreme Court has digested a load ...

Businesses in Asia-Pacific (APAC) will need to get a grip on software quality and security or risk losing their agility and control of service quality, according to a top executive at Dynatrace. ...

Every five to 10 years there is a monumental shift in IT architecture. In the early 2000s, enterprises began seeing the benefits of virtualising physical servers. Cloud computing offered enterprise ...

There is a new dirty word in politics. Over the last few weeks politicians and commentators have spoken publicly about how this year’s GCSE and A’levels won’t be based on algorithms. Instead, they ...

Developers love software application development security provisioning, penetration testing, procedural process management and (software) program protection planning in all its forms. Okay, so ...

Are we all feeling stable right now, in 2021? No need to answer that question, obviously. But, in fact, application stability management is now a defined parameter for software application ...

Jetstack wants to be seen as a ‘proper’ open source company i.e. not just a corporate beast with an ‘open technologies’ department that is guilty of open-washing its wares by popping the off bit of ...

This is a guest blogpost by Kevin Hurd, Founder & CEO, Digital Hive. In 2015 Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella famously said: “every business will be a software business”. And it’s hard to argue ...

AI is used to find hidden meaning in large datasets. What if an AI system could truly understand an end-to-end business process. What if an AI system could optimise a business process autonomously? ...

This is a guest blogpost by Gaurav Dhillon, CEO, SnapLogic. Low-code technologies are not new. They’ve been part of IT’s application development kit for decades. But in recent years the adoption of ...

The coronavirus pandemic has illustrated the massive digital divide that exists across the UK. In a paper published published in August, Gemma Burgess, principal research associate & acting ...

Over the last few weeks Computer Weekly has explored the topic of what it means to be a modern software developer. There are no surprises that cloud first, microservices and DevOps are among the ...

The fiasco with the calculations for A-Level result marks has projected the unfairness of algorithms into the spotlight. In modern society, such algorithms act as black boxes that make fundamental ...

This series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.  As we have initially discussed here, with so many new ...

As we know, Kubernetes is an open source technology for container management across hybrid cloud environments. Initially created by Google  (and subsequently open sourced and managed under the ...

This is a guest posted by by Marc Caltabiano, vice-president for ANZ at Mulesoft Companies across industries have been gearing up for digital transformation, which has become a buzzword in the tech ...

All developers care deeply about application [development] security. Okay, that’s perhaps not always strictly true… let’s try again. All developers care deeply about application functionality and ...

GraphQL (query language) was the brainchild of Facebook and was open sourced in 2015.  Many of the apps and websites we use are built on GraphQL, including Twitter, AWS and GitHub. Kelly Goetsch, ...

Open source security and license compliance management company WhiteSource has brought dependency update company Renovate into its stable. All of Renovate’s current commercial offerings will now be ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network in our Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Delivery (CD) series. This contribution is written by Mark Palmer in his capacity ...

Earlier in August, Huawei announced it was launching its own open-source operating system, named HarmonyOS, which may replace Google’s Android on its devices, writes Promon head of development, Jan ...

Codefresh is the first Kubernetes-native CI/CD technology, with CI denoting Continuous Integration and CD denoting Continuous Delivery, obviously. The organisation has this month worked to improve ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network and Open Source Insider team want to talk code and coding.  But more than that, we want to talk coding across the diversity spectrum… so let’s get the tough ...

There are no lessons that can be gleaned from the tragic loss of life following the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crash on March 10, 2019. As has been reported across the web, the crash bears ...

The question is in the title already: do we need a global IT event calendar? Why do we ask? Simply because this short piece could have been called May the 6th be with you (as in May the 4th [force] ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network is in the engine room, covered in grease and looking for Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machines Leaning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) tools for software ...

Software delivery (and operations… and change) automation company Puppet has staged its fifth annual DevOps Salary Report. With a foundation in open source, Puppet is championing a world of what it ...

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 ...

Red Hat inside IBM continues to look a lot like Red Hat… but just inside IBM. The [commercial] open source champions at Red Hat have clearly pressed on with ALL the firm’s various roadmap rollouts, ...

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 ...

Okta is an identity management specialist, so if its techies attempt to table DevOps commentary then they (it, the company) are simply jumping on the Agile DevOps bandwagon and attempting to ...

Software application developers can now access a new version the Oasis Devnet platform. This technology has features to help developers build and test privacy-preserving smart contracts. The ...

Open source has crested the hill of enterprise acceptance. There's no longer the fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) that there was around open source a few years ago, plus it's often a lot easier ...

This is a guest post by Bhupendra Warathe, chief information officer for corporate and institutional Banking, information technology and operations at Standard Chartered Bank As the world adopts ...

Splunk has expanded its cyber threat security portfolio with advanced software-as-a-platform powered Security Automation, Orchestration and Response (SOAR) features. Here we find a use case library ...

Pardon us… your company doesn’t have a technology experimental division? Okay sorry, it might be called the prototyping department, the Proof of Concept (PoC) laboratory, the exploration ‘foundry’, ...

A study commissioned by Stripe has revealed that the Singapore economy has the potential to grow by S$1.6bn each year, if companies harness developer resources more effectively. Conducted by ...

Testing was once a just a ‘thing’, now it’s an as-a-Service (aaS) software application development utility and in many cases it is positioned as a platform in its own right. BrowserStack is one ...

It might not be fake Brexit news but it is outrageous spin.

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.

GENBAND was founded in 1999 as 'General Bandwidth' -- the firm itself is a specialist in IP-based real time communications software for fixed wireline, mobile and cable service providers and large ...

The firm's Distil API Security service is designed to protect vulnerable Application Programming Interface (API) endpoints from malicious traffic.

Box World Tour: a content platform for a modern IT stack

There's new harmony across the tech ether this week as IBM and SAP cast off their normal "no, our database is better" T-shirts and partner up on what they like to call co-innovation solutions.

As a newly formed operational entity, Anchore Inc. has announced the formation of the company itself and (in literally the same mouthful) the firm has launched its beta program for users working ...

There are computing platforms for hosting applications and building custom extension applications, additional functionality libraries and cross-platform compatibility plug-ins in the normal ...

SmartBear's new developer focused test automation tool is called TestLeft.

Microsoft used its Build 2016 developer conference this week to roll out new free development tools to help programmers scale their apps for all platforms. Steve Guggenheimer, corporate vice ...

Customer service platform company Zendesk Inc. has now launched the first customer support solution designed for Microsoft Office 365 Groups for conversations within an organisation designed to ...

If you thought that Microsoft Office was a piece of software, a productivity 'suite' featuring a word processor with a spreadsheet and more... then you're still right, this is what Microsoft Office ...

Exec 'veep' for Microsoft's 'Windows and Devices' Group Terry Myerson used his time at the firm's //Build 2016 conference to detail the forthcoming Windows 10 Anniversary update.

Buidl 2016 kicks off with a [email protected] Reception and the first morning's keynotes will be delivered by CEO Satya Nadella, Terry Myerson who is is executive vice president of the Windows and ...

Tel-Aviv based development shop Typemock has polished up its automated unit testing solutions.

Tableau Software this month comes forward with the 9.3 version iteration of its core product.

Analytics and event processing firm TIBCO and application development methodology polyglot Pivotal have snuggled up this month in a bid to offer a 'cloud native' platform for digital business.

After the recent news analysis surfacing in relation to Jive Software and its Jive World 2016 conference and exhibition, the Computer Weekly Developer Network blog fills in the missing blanks in ...

Kony: any-user low-code tools for 'instant' native app prototypes

Jive Software has showcased a number of its application implementation successes to validate the use full-blown use of collaboration software in the healthcare industry.

Thankfully, the Girls in Tech UK Mentoring Programme don't mind being called girls, ladies, women, females or perhaps even non-men.

Nutanix has developed a hyperconverged solution intended to simplify the creation of enterprise datacentre infrastructures by integrating server and storage resources into a turnkey platform.

Cirba Inc. has announced support for Arista's software-driven cloud networking solutions.

Pusher has hung out the flags and bought extra sausage rolls, potato crisps and fizzy pop to celebrate its new product redesign -- the developer tool company is known for its real time notification ...

Yes this is a software column -- so there's a very good reason for talking about a hardware product here and it leads us to an invaluable lesson relating to the internal logic of the Android ...

Conference season 2016 is just about underway and that means two things: dental floss (please everybody) and show previews.

What is the application availability gap and should software application developers be concerned about it?

Half of UK businesses (54%) plan to employ a Chief IoT Officer in the next year says the survey... a position that could (and arguably should) be filled by individuals with a formalised education ...