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Snow in Las Vegas? It actually did on ‘day zero’ (aka registration, training and welcome reception) of Qualys Security Conference (QSC) 2022 North America, held at The Venetian in Las Vegas from ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Traditional management culture stymies technology business aspirations
Managing Editor 09 Nov 2022Among the more interesting takeaways from the Gartner Symposium in Barcelona was a keynote on the afternoon of the second day by Andrew McAfee, co-founder and co-director of MIT’s Initiative on the ...
Developer security firm Snyk (pronounced sneak) has announced its SnykLaunch Fall 2022 release. This iteration includes extensions to the company’s existing Developer Security Platform - so the ...
Continuing to gain traction in the data management space, Snowflake wrapped up its its Snowday 2022 software release update event with one final leg in San Francisco, to form the final stop on its ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Kubernetes and the open-source maintainer question
Freeform Dynamics 07 Nov 2022While much of last month’s KubeCon-CloudNativeCon North America was focused on specific software projects, case studies and tech challenges, there was a discernible undercurrent of concern. And it ...
In this guest post, Chris Darvill, vice president of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) solutions engineering at cloud-native API platform provider Kong, on how to make the move from monolith to ...
Technology needs law. Equally and perhaps more so, the legal industry needs to understand what is changing around information technology. Alongside the need to move off of paper-based statute books ...
Diana Tomova graduated from the University of Essex with European Studies and modern languages in 2018. She now works as a system admin at Defra and is also embarking on a degree in Computer ...
Hardy toughened souls (capable of braving the cold) as they are, the Computer Weekly Developer Network team is headed to Stockholm, Sweden, for Workday Rising Europe 2022. The event runs from ...
Logitech makes quite good kit. In fairness, Logitech makes really pretty good desktop accessories – and it also makes gamepads, joysticks, speakers, headphones, trackballs, scanners and a whole ...
Data Matters
Does data need to come from a single source of truth?
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 01 Nov 2022This is a guest blogpost by Steve Neat, General Manager, EMEA, at Alation For a long time, the overall objective of any data transformation has been to get all of an organisation’s data into one ...
These thoughts on API management form part of the Computer Weekly Developer Network’s API series and come from Kamakshi Narayan in her role as director of product management at SnapLogic - the ...
Commonly in cyber security-related conversations, strategic references to the edge, boundary, endpoint, cloud etc are commonplace as potential areas of vulnerability. However, in several recent ...
It’s all too easy to get so engrained in the world of IT that sometimes you need a reminder that the globe is a large and diverse place; one that isn’t purely digital. Such a reminder came most ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Digital identity and opening up the smartwallet
Freeform Dynamics 01 Nov 2022When an 80 year-old relative asks you how she can use her phone to both pay for shopping and get her supermarket loyalty points, like her friends do, you know that digital wallets are a success. ...
In this guest post, Donovan Justice, a partner within the digital engineering and emerging tech group at EY, sets out why it is time people started paying attention to the carbon emissions ...
Open Source Insider
SonarSource: Google’s Carbon language is a successor, not a replacement, for C++
31 Oct 2022This is a guest post for Computer Weekly written by Phil Nash in his role as developer advocate at SonarSource - the company is known for its platform that developers and development teams to write ...
CW Developer Network
API series - Cisco ThousandEyes: Go deep, granular & adaptive on API testing
31 Oct 2022This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Joe Dougherty in his role as product solutions architect at Cisco ThousandEyes ThousandEyes monitors network ...
After an insightful first year in 2021, the Computer Weekly Developer Network team is headed back for second helpings at Qualys QSC 2022. With a solid focus on security issues (obviously, because ...
In this guest post, Justin Griffith, CTO of supply chain software company StayLinked explores how companies can implement open source technologies as a stand-alone business model Solar technology ...
Open Source Insider
Get your popcorn, Speakeasy fires up ‘Inside Prometheus’ developer documentary
26 Oct 2022Prometheus defied the gods and stole fire from them to give to humanity. This strand of Greek legend is a powerful thread. Named with the intention of conveying a similar (if not even more ...
It's all about infrastructure. So much so that the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) reached out to the community in advance of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2022 North America held in Detroit, ...
Open Source Insider
Nutanix Kubernetes ‘ecosystem’ aims to underpin coder-ready infrastructure
26 Oct 2022Simply saying hybrid multi-cloud (out loud) is one thing. Creating an operational computing fabric capable of working not just across multiple cloud instances (that’s the easy part, right folks?) ...
In this guest post, Ben Scott, principal at IT service provider Netcompany, sets out his view about how Ofgem needs to react to the UK's on-going energy crisis Regulator and regulation are ...
GUEST BLOG: Bella Grimsey, a student in her second year of computer science A-Level, explains the challenges and pressures of being a lone female in class, and why the tech syllabus needs to change ...
Inspect-a-Gadget
Back to the Future: The Astro Slide 5G from Planet Computers
Managing Editor 24 Oct 2022Years ago, I owned a Psion Organiser, which, at the time, was the perfect device for taking notes using thumb typing. The Nokia Communicator 9000 series took the concept a stage further, adding a ...
CW Developer Network
API series - Wib: Mapping a continuously updated baseline of API traffic
24 Oct 2022This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Chuck Herrin in his capability as CTO of Wib, a full lifecycle API security platform that helps companies secure their APIs ...
CW Developer Network
Fair winds ahead, StormForge ‘bi-dimensional’ Kubernetes pod autoscaling
23 Oct 2022StormForge is a cloud-native application performance testing and resource optimization company. The company has used the week of KubeCon and CloudNativeCon North America this year to detail its ...
CW Developer Network
API series - OctoML: ML APIs need to take a lesson from their ancestors
22 Oct 2022This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jason Knight in his role as chief product officer at OctoML -- the company is known for its work bringing DevOps agility to ...
CW Developer Network
API series – Inigo: With GraphQL power comes… developer responsibility for API security
22 Oct 2022This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network’s API series written by Shahar Binyamin, CEO and co-founder at Inigo, a GraphQL security and management platform. Binyamin writes in ...
The artist formerly known as Kanye West has tied a ribbon round his recent package of white supremacist slogans, George Floyd family agitation and anti-Semitic tropes with an agreement to purchase ...
In this guest post, Aidan McClean, CEO and co-founder of online electric vehicle hire firm UFODRIVE, highlights the shortcomings in the UK’s car charging infrastructure The UK’s 2030 ban on the ...
This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Umair Shahid in his role as head of PostgreSQL at Percona -- a company known for its work delivering enterprise-class ...
With Oracle CloudWorld in Las Vegas kicking off, the on-going battle with third party support provider Rimini Street is once again making the news. On October 10th Oracle said it had informed the ...
In what at first glance looked like the inventor of affordable rolled gift wrap finally having enough, Damien Hirst last week began the process of burning those of the 10,000 individual A4 ...
Once simply known as IFS World Conference, the last pre-pandemic gathering from the US and European-headquartered cloud enterprise software company was called ‘For The Challengers’ - a nod of sorts ...
In this guest post, Ciaran Dynes, chief product officer at data integration platform, Matillion, explores the role of cloud data in informing decisions that reduce global impact As the world turns ...
Many organisations are shifting to a ‘less-paper’ environment as they accelerate their digital transformation initiatives. Scanning plays a key role in this transition, enabling companies to ...
CW Developer Network
API series - OutSystems: Process purity, how to avoid ‘bad’ automation
10 Oct 2022As we connect more systems, applications, compute resources and containerised entities to each other through the neural networking connections offered by APIs, there is a clear and present need to ...
CW Developer Network
API series - NetFoundry: The tug of war between API access & security
07 Oct 2022This is a contributed piece for the Computer Weekly Developer Network’s API series written by Galeal Zino in his capacity as co-founder and CEO of NetFoundry – the company is the originator and ...
Many moons ago, the tech sector would gel around a big product launch, like the next version of Windows. But in the era of over-the-air (OTA) continuous updates, especially on smartphones, there is ...
Green Tech
Why electric vehicles are the next big step for developers working in sustainability
06 Oct 2022In this guest post, Rollo Home, head of product at national mapping agency Ordnance Survey, sets out the opportunities for software developers to get more actively involved in sustainability ...
CW Developer Network
Confluent: Current 2022 - live report day #2: no going back to 'batch'
05 Oct 2022Hosted by Confluent, Current 2022 is billed as the ‘next generation of Kafka Summit’ and the Computer Weekly Developer Network team is in Austin, Texas for the showdown. As an aide memoir, ...
This is a guest post by Han Chon, managing director for ASEAN at Nutanix There has been much discussion around how technology can be used to accelerate sustainability efforts, from green IT to ...
Hosted by Confluent, Current 2022 is billed as the ‘next generation of Kafka Summit’ and the Computer Weekly Developer Network team is in Austin, Texas for the showdown. As an aide memoir, ...
Dynatrace is of course not just a systems and data observability specialist. The company quite specifically describes and denotes itself as a ‘software intelligence company’ with a platform ...
This is a contributed piece for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Paul Jones, head of technology UK&I at SAS. SAS is known for its work in data analytics, data management and ...
CW Developer Network
API series - Pantheon: Building web experiences with APIs & Jamstack
28 Sep 2022This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network API series written by Josh Koenig in his role as co-founder and chief strategy officer at Pantheon. Pantheon is a WebOps platform for ...
Eyes on APAC
Why identity security is the cornerstone of ASEAN's digital economy
TechTarget 26 Sep 2022This is a guest post by Chern-Yue Boey, senior vice-president for Asia-Pacific at SailPoint Southeast Asia has been heralded as the up-and-coming region, and with good reason. Over the past decade, ...
Open Source Insider
A software 'six-pack' for Cloud Native Computing Foundation Kubecon USA 2022
26 Sep 2022The Computer Weekly Developer Network and Open Source Insider team is soon Detroit-bound. Why? Because the city is this year home to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s (CNCF) KubeCon + ...