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This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Nathan Wright in his role as SwaggerHub product marketing manager and API evangelist at SmartBear. SmartBear Software is ...

Software developer bootcamp Makers has launched its first annual Women in Software Power List, nominations for which are now open. In partnership with Level39, the Women in Software Power List is ...

Banks are under pressure to transform digitally but is it fair to set Google as the destination?

A recent pop event at Lloyds Bank in London hosted by DominoData has highlighted one of the age-old ailments of IT. It is the illness of being misaligned with the business. The latest example of ...

It’s understandable that people express cynicism when a politician – particularly one with a clear ideological bent – proclaims that “digital” or “technology” can solve the core Brexit issue of the ...

Finastra is an IT supplier build on very old foundations but fintech disruption has forced it to extend beyond them

Data analytics firm MapR Technologies has sealed the cellophane on the MapR Ecosystem Pack (MEP) at its 6.1 version iteration. The toolpack is meant to give developers (and data scientists, unless ...

For years now, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has been hounded to add a feature that allows users to amend their typo-laden tweets, but do we really need more ways to take the platform so seriously? Take ...

Oh yes, AIOps… hadn’t you heard? That’s Ops (as in Ops, operations… as recently ‘shown some love’ by DevOps) driven by Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a world where many of the core operational ...

The finalists for the 2019 FDM everywoman in Technology Awards have been announced prior to the awards ceremony in March 2019 Judges have decided on the finalists for the 2019 FDM everywoman in ...

Money transfer company InstaRem is an example of something worth remembering after a Bachelor party

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 ...

The pace of change in the skills in demand (as machine intelligence, now called AI, matures) is matched only by the pace of change in educational technology (using machine intelligence to transform ...

NanoVMs has announced the first unikernel tool for developers that loads any Linux application as a unikernel. But hang on… what is a unikernel? The company says that unikernels are unique single ...

Could BBVA follow Lloyds Banking Group onto the Google inspired banking platform from Thought Machine

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 ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network sat down with Mike Duensing, CTO at Skuid to discuss the state of the developer nation in microservices. Skuid (pronounced squid) is a low-code cloud-based UX ...

BT has announced plans to train another 3,000 apprentices  on top of 3,500 engineers, including apprentices, hired last year. The announcement included an update on BT’s plans for new and upgraded ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed post, Clare Young, head of delivery at dxw digital discusses how tech careers are portrayed and what the industry needs to do to attract more women into tech.  ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Dr Joanne Phoenix, interim executive director at Sensor City asks how far we've really come in eliminating gender bias In recent years, we have seen a ...

Malaysia has become the latest country to look into the security concerns surrounding Huawei, which has been accused by mostly western powers of conducting corporate espionage and potentially ...

Gay dating app Scruff has had to ban pictures of users in their underwear because Google Play kept suspending it. This is welcome news for those of us who eat pizza every single day and can’t be ...

Andi Grabner works as the DevOps Activist (real job title, not joking) for software intelligence company Dynatrace. Activist eh? Why’s that Andi? “Because I want to activate people into becoming ...

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 ...

This is a guest post written for the Computer Weekly Developer Network by Eran Kinsbruner in his role as chief evangelist for Perfecto.  Acquired by Clearlake Capital-backed Perforce in October ...

You know Cisco, that networking company that makes hardware for deep internal systems and spends all its time developing switches, routers, hubs and token ring adapters and suchlike, right? No, ...

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 ...

Open source process automation, content management and information governance software company Alfresco has hit the version 3.0 iteration for it ADF 3.0 (Application Development Framework). Company ...

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 ...

What do fintechs think of the first year of Open Banking and what do they expect over the next 12 months?