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Modern development - GitLab: What is not modern (in software development)
26 Jun 2020This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development. As we have initially ...
CW Developer Network
Modern development - Cohesity: Defining a new rhythm for the paroxysms of data schism
26 Jun 2020This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development. As we have initially ...
What’s better than a machine learning platform? Answer: an en-to-end machine learning platform, obviously. What’s better than an end-to-end machine learning platform? Answer: an open source ...
As promised in the previous blog, given the seeming importance of SASE, here’s more definition in terms of what briefings with Cato Networks revealed. If we look at the key areas where SASE and ...
CW Developer Network
Modern development - SUSE CTO: This is not a test, this is real testing
25 Jun 2020This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development. As we have initially ...
A bunch of olfactory obsessives have blasted through their Kickstarter campaign target to start making bottles of fragrance purported to smell like space. Just as Robin Williams once lorded it over ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Tech CEOs call for global action against racism
Managing Editor 24 Jun 2020As the IT conference season heads into peak season, the CEOs of the top tech firms have used these large global gatherings as a platform to speak out on racism. In his keynote kicking off the HPE ...
Eyes on APAC
Of nation state threat actors, Sapphire and politics in telecoms
TechTarget 24 Jun 2020Nation state threat actors, Sapphire and telecoms politics have little in common, yet those are the developments that we've been covering over the past few weeks. For those of you who have missed ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Jumping the hurdles to post-pandemic AI automation
Freeform Dynamics 24 Jun 2020In the post-pandemic, post-Brexit world, businesses of all sorts face a range of new challenges – and many will be wondering if AI-based automation could help them win through. From adding more ...
CW Developer Network
Modern development - OutSystems: Low-code’s role on the software evolution curve
22 Jun 2020This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development. As we have initially ...
This is a guest blogpost by Matt Jones, Lead Analytics Strategist at Tessella. From drug design to supply chains, predictive algorithms built using yesterday’s data no longer work in our strange ...
CW Developer Network
Modern development - GigaOm: The new agility-structure-control balance in DevOps
21 Jun 2020This 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 ...
CW Developer Network
Modern development - Progress: the art (and science) of modern software
19 Jun 2020This 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 ...
CW Developer Network
Modern development - Abbyy: go low (code), go open (source) & go forward
19 Jun 2020This 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 ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Why not collaborate on an international contact-tracing app? (Well, we know why the UK won't...)
Editor in chief 18 Jun 2020To the surprise of nobody, the government has reversed its plans for the NHS contact-tracing app, switching from its initial centralised model to the decentralised version supported by Google and ...
CW Developer Network
Modern development - Sumo Logic: atomized applications demand upfront observability
18 Jun 2020This 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 ...
“NHS” is the UK’s most trusted brand. Until recently it was one of the least protected/secure. There have been significant improvements but, as a result of Covid, impersonating the NHS now comes ...
CW Developer Network
Modern development - Contentful: The joy of programmatic stacked eXperiences
17 Jun 2020This 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 ...
Open source at the core, but not yet open in the public sense… arguably the tech industry’s most prominent enterprise Apache Cassandra company DataStax has been cooking it up over the Covid-19 ...
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 ...
For all the impacts the likes of COVID-19 and technological advance have on IT, there are two immovable staples that we can rely on: Gartner to keep on introducing new acronyms to create new magic ...
In this week's Ask the Expert segment, Romain Bottier, senior solutions architect for high performance computing and artificial intelligence (AI) at Dell Technologies South Asia, advises ...
CW Developer Network
Modern development - BrightMinded: A new era for continuous testing
16 Jun 2020This 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 ...
Snyk (pronounced ‘snick’ or ‘sneak’) was founded in the Holy Land (Tel-Aviv), but now has offices in London and North America. The company was formed in response to the interconnected nature of ...
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 ...
CW Developer Network
Modern development - Redgate: A contemporary validation for dedicated (database dev models)
15 Jun 2020This 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 ...
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 ...
CW Developer Network
Modern development - Hazelcast: a brief history of testing (and our chaos theory future)
12 Jun 2020This 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 ...
Microsoft’s move to replace MSN.com’s human editors with artificial intelligence has resulted in the software misidentifying one woman of colour for another – before regurgitating other outlets’ ...
One of the only technology companies to have managed to stage its annual developer/customer/user-fast successfully in 2020 before the onset of Covid-19 by virtue of staging its convention in ...
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 ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Meet the Identity and Attributes Exchange – GDS’s future for digital identity after Verify
Editor in chief 09 Jun 2020As the Government Digital Service (GDS) prepares for the winding down of its Gov.uk Verify service, its future plans for digital identity are becoming a little clearer. In recent weeks, GDS has ...
This is a guest blogpost by Marc Linster, SVP, EnterpriseDB Open Source, Free and Open Source Software, Code Available, GNU General Public License (GPL), Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), ...
Open source database company Percona has been on the (virtual) road these past few weeks, hosting its web-based Percona Live 2020 conference (in obvious need due to the Covid-19 pandemic) and ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Tear up the rulebook to build a digital new norm
Managing Editor 08 Jun 2020The coronavirus pandemic has become a catalyst, accelerating radical change to how organisations operate. The economic recovery from the lockdown is forcing some to push through changes that they ...
When you need a (computing) cluster in an instant, who would you call? Perhaps this was the thought process behind the marketing folk at Instaclustr when they decided to give the organization its ...
The Covid-19 lockdown has led to an explosion of fraud and abuse, both on-line and in the "real" world. Before Test and Trace is fully operational it is already being spoofed . The problems are ...
I’m on a mission, or a quest, call it what you will. This personal pursuit is simple, yet it’s not… I need the ultimate travel work device. As a technology journalist (COVID-19 Coronavirus ...
Eyes on APAC
Ask the expert: technical and ethical considerations of biometric security
TechTarget 05 Jun 2020In this month's Ask the Expert segment, Serkan Cetin, technical director at One Identity in Asia-Pacific and Japan, offers advice on the technical and ethical considerations of biometric security ...
CW Developer Network
Modern development - Volterra: why microservices are going mainstream
04 Jun 2020This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Volterra CEO and founder Ankur Singla -- Volterra provides a distributed cloud platform to deploy, connect, secure and ...
Restaurants in the Netherlands have been easing themselves back into business with the help of robotic waiting staff, going some way to repair the profession’s reputation after China’s automated ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Netanel Mohoni in his position as co-founder and chief executive officer at xs:code, a monetisation platform company for ...
Aqua Security is known for its technology designed to secure container-based, serverless and cloud native applications. The company has now added to its open source DNA. It has expanded its team by ...
When IT Meets Politics
Reskilling those whose futures have been destroyed by the Covid lockdown
Winsafe Ltd 01 Jun 2020The Covid lockdown has demonstrated the potential of Educational Technology to support remote learning and workplace training but the focus on “free” access threatens to destroy the revenue streams ...
GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post Jess Jackson, investment director at GC Angels, discusses the difficulties female tech founders face when trying to enter the sector and find funding. The ...
Programmers, coders, software engineers of all creeds and even meddling script kiddies all see themselves as artists, of a sort. Creating applications, data engineering and services across PCs, ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by David Brown in his position as CEO of Toro Cloud -- the company is known for its low-code API-centric approach to ...
Ahead in the Clouds
Working through the Covid-19 lockdown: What to look for in a datacentre partner
Senior Editor, UK 29 May 2020In this guest post, Darren Watkins, managing director of colocation provider Virtus Data Centres, talks about how Covid-19 has changed what enterprises want from their datacentre partners. More ...
The Open Application Model (OAM) was initially launched as a partnership between Microsoft and Alibaba Cloud last October. Microsoft principal program manager Vaclav Turecek now tells us that the ...
When Dominic Cummings wasn’t using his press conference to brag about how many trees his dad has, you can bet he was going on about being into viruses before anyone else. The thing is, deep down, ...