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This is a guest post for Computer Weekly's 'circular technology economy' series written by Sammy Zoghlami in his role as SVP EMEA, Nutanix. Given the fact that we know the ongoing energy crisis is ...

This is a guest post written by Dan Whiting, director of media relations and communications for the Linux Foundation. Whiting has filed this piece writing live this month from the Open Source ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Alessandro Chimera in his role as director of digitalisation strategy at enterprise data software platform company Tibco. ...

The European Commission wants Member States to reduce consumption. “Demand reduction is fundamental: it lowers energy bills, ends Putin's ability to weaponise his energy resources, reduces ...

Developers build code and so, logically, they need to deliver code above all else, right? This misconception was one of the lies developers tell themselves tabled by Microsoft's Billy Hollis during ...

In this guest post, Russel Bulley, senior application engineer at datacentre equipment manufacturer Vertiv, shares his thoughts on how fuel cell technology could help the server farm industry go ...

The Computer Weekly DeveloperNetwork team is on the road again and this time it's Boston, USA for Progress Software’s Progress360 developer event, staged from September 11-14, 2022. This event ...

The email came in quite quietly over the weekend, just in advance of the morning keynote the following day… and it read, “So, it’s like a normal developer event - all over again right?” The truth ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jeff Carpenter in his capacity as engineering coach at DataStax. DataStax is the company behind a ‘highly available’ ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Nick Rago in his capacity as field CTO at Salt Security - a company known for its specialist skills related to API ...

Can the launch of the iPhone 14 have come at a worse time? The standard of living of people is falling, inflation is rising rapidly, the pound is crashing and fuel bills are sky high and set to ...

Almost freezing, not quite, but very interesting with a definite chance of Motown, some renowned US Midwestern culture and the possibility of eating at Big Boy, the home of the first double ...

In this guest post, professor Matthew Gitsham, who leads on sustainability at Hult International Business School, sets out the role that leaders should take when helping their organisations hone ...

Open source software for edge and embedded distributed systems Luos has added support for the popular ESP32 multipoint control unit (MCU) to its technology cadre. In working motion, ESP32 is said ...

Google acquired Apigee in back in 2016. Since that time, the search and cloud giant has been working on processes designed to absorb, ingest - but mostly to integrate - Apigee’s API management ...

The Liz Truss era is upon us, and while you might expect us to indulge in the kind of trite banter you’ve seen elsewhere online – an observation that real-life politics is very much imitating that ...

Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) platform company CircleCI used the summer slowdown period to come forward with support for GitLab SaaS developers. This means that ‘joint ...

In this guest post, Chris Darvill, vice president of solutions engineering covering Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at cloud-native API platform provider Kong, talks about the environmental ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network API series written by Vivek Bhalla in his position as senior manager of market intelligence at enterprise open source 'developer data ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly circular economy series written by Rob Tribe in his capacity as VP of systems engineering at Nutanix - known as a hyper-converged cloud computing ...

Real-time data streaming and messaging solutions company Push Technology has enriched its Diffusion Cloud service. Described as an intelligent event-data platform, the additions include a new REST ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Bernadette Nixon in her role as chief executive officer at Algolia - the company is known for its API-first specialisms in ...

In this guest post, Boris Manev, head of sustainability and government affairs at Epson Europe, sets out the role that energy-efficient peripherals can have on helping enterprises achieve their ...

We live in an age where it is possible for someone, irrespective of their level of talent, to create an artistic masterpiece, simply by keying a few descriptive words into an AI-powered art ...

With open source security always in the spotlight (and proprietary too for that matter) especially at the enterprise-level, software supply chain management company Sonatype has announced news ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by CircleCI CTO Rob Zuber - the company is a developer-centric automation software company known for its specialist skills in ...

I think it’s fair to say that, over the decades, if the general public had been alerted to all the attempted terrorist attacks tracked down and prevented by intelligence – as opposed to just the ...

This is a guest post by Madhusudan Pandya, senior advisor of international market Development at Ciena A 5G-first future is fast becoming a reality and Asia-Pacific (APAC) is set to lead, with 1.14 ...

As a fairly discerning bunch, the Computer Weekly Developer Network team are fond of sausages, pulled pork, beef brisket roast, barbeque sauce, Apache Kafka and real-time data streaming. As luck ...

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are everywhere. This being true, the Computer Weekly Developer Network now embarks upon a story series designed to examine the mechanics of the API ...

In Spring 2002, after the Post Y2K Dotcom bubble had burst, Gordon Brown announced a new approach to skills akin to that needed today. So why did it not happen? We should never under-estimate the ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly circular economy series attributed to Sofia Voudouroglou of Teemill, an open access enterprise software platform that allows businesses to access ...

In this guest post, Alissa Starzak, global head of public policy at web application security firm Cloudflare, sets out what can be done to green-up the information superhighway.   As the internet ...

Rarely has the world of IT, regardless of the role within, been more united over the understanding that the IT landscape – from endpoint to data/application repository – has been changing out of ...

Loft Labs is a provider of developer tooling and multi-tenancy solutions for Kubernetes. The company has now come forward with DevSpace version 6. This is open source software for Kubernetes that ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post Jill Gates, vice president culture and people, Europe and Asia, at Ensono, talks about the steps that need to be taken to develop good apprenticeships.  In ...

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly’s ‘circular tech economy’ series written by Simon Young in his capacity as director and VP of sales for UK & Ireland at technology services company ...

In this guest post, Robin Saluoks, co-founder and CEO of climate tech-focused startup eAgronom,on how technology can help increase food security in the face of climate change. Avocados from Mexico, ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network sat down (physically In Real Life, virtually and perhaps also metaphysically) to discuss the state of low-code nation with April Schuppel in her role as senior ...

Codefresh is a Continuous Delivery (CD) platform for cloud-native apps. Built on an enterprise distribution of Argo, a declarative continuous delivery tool, Codefresh is trusted by companies like ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post Helen Walker, director of global operations at edtech firm, RM, discusses when gender biases start in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) and ...

The recent Samsung Unpacked event, where the smartphone giant launched two high-end devices, is indicative of an industry that believes the only way to add value is to launch new things. And ...

In this guest post, David Watkins, solutions director for West London-based colocation provider, Virtus Data Centres outlines the actions that datacentre operators need to take to avoid accusations ...

Logitech is known for its peripherals and software. The Swiss-American company makes some of (what would widely be agreed to be) the higher-end and perhaps more durable lines of equipment on the ...

The (possibly, hopefully) post-pandemic push for corporate connections and platform-level integrations moved in the open source database space this month. August 2022 saw everybody’s favourite ...

In this guest post, Julie Kae, executive director and vice president of sustainability and diversity, equality and inclusion (DE&I) at business applications firm Qlik.org, sets out why data has ...

Current proposals to use tax incentives or national strategies to break out of stagflation by improving productivity will fail without a new approach to building a political consensus that ...

Consumer advocate Ralph Nader, whose book, Unsafe at any speed,  forced carmakers into fitting seat belts as standard, has his eyes on Tesla. In a post regarding the car company's autonomous ...

 In this guest post, Jay Mukhey, global director of environment social and governance (ESG), Purpose & Impact, at fintech Finastra, sets out how the financial services industry is supporting ...

Software application developers have skills.  It’s what they do. The job itself is a defined, enviable, professional pursuit that would probably be classed as a white collar job, were any ...