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The next objective is to report (by the end of March) on that which can be commenced without the need for new legislation/regulation and to agree plans to launch studies in May on that which may ...

Technology is evolving, obviously, that’s what it does. Due to the perennial flow of innovation and dynamic change, some say that companies are building better digital habits and systems and that ...

Knative (pronounced kay-native) has just been accepted as a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Incubating Project.  This status happens when the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) votes ...

We wanted to extend our apologies to Diary of a CEO podcast host Steven Bartlett for our recent criticism of his role in the increasingly exploitative NFT industry, due to him soon after pledging ...

It is here, low-code no-code (LC/NC) has become part of our developer toolset and our global software application development fabric. Low-code, of course, doesn’t mean no-code, it is an approach ...

This is a guest blogpost by Oded Karev, general manager of Robotics Process Automation, NICE The UK is suffering from a productivity crisis. Since the 2008 global financial crash, output per hour ...

In 2014 a working group hosted by the DPA (Digital Policy Alliance) working with faster payment data from six banks established that 75% of fraudulent payments could have been stopped in real time ...

We are only two weeks into the statutory inquiry examining the Post Office IT scandal – two weeks of what is likely to be a year-long process – and already what we’ve learned is only compounding ...

The Raspberry Pi is a decade old. Who would have thought a computer that costs a mere £25, would start a revolution? But it did. The Pi, based on an Arm processor and a bootable SD card, opened up ...

Couchbase refers to its core technology as a modern database, not an old fashioned one. What the company (probably) means by this is that products like Couchbase Mobile 3 are ready for modern ...

Whether you’re an early adopter, a latecomer to the party, or a no-comer, you’ll surely be familiar with the grid of green, yellow and black squares popping up all over social media associated with ...

What’s one louder than 7-Up? It’s 8-Up, obviously… but that doesn’t work as a brand name because it sounds like ‘ate up’, so why not go two-louder? It’s almost certain that this was not the brand ...

The first review meeting agreed a series of actions for review on 23rd February . None was partisan. Some are potentially controversial but do not divide audiences along party lines. They do set ...

In this guest post, Amazon CTO and vice president Werner Vogels sets out what he thinks the year ahead holds for the world of cloud technology Cloud infrastructure has evolved to a place where we ...

Looking at the artists who pulled their catalogues from Spotify due to the Joe Rogan podcasts, the most powerful voice is the voice of the content creators, rather than legislators or the platform ...

Temporal is an application state management systems company. The company was founded by two experts in application state management, who previously led the design and development of Simple Workflow ...

The finalists for the 2022 FDM everywoman in Technology Awards have been announced prior to the awards ceremony in March. Each year the professional women’s network, in partnership with FDM, ...

We have a morass of vocational education, careers and skills initiatives competing for funds and attention. Most are organised by those (including Departments and Agencies) unaware of what others ...

Protecting access to sensitive data in Kubernetes is complicated.  Some would go far enough to say that the security layer in Kubernetes is not optimal. Named after the French for ‘truss’ or ‘turn ...

Over 400 employers attended a briefing with officials from Home Office and DCMS on 27th January when we learned that, welcome though the new processes are, those without a current UK passport will ...

Noise, huh, what’s it good for? Absolutely nothin’. Apart from the geniuses trying to further the advancement of noisy intermediate quantum computing (Nisq), noise means errors. Lowering the error ...

Vast Data is a data storage company with a message for data scientists, data-centric developers, DBAs in developer-operations DevOps teams and anyone other software engineers with a penchant for ...

One screen is never enough, well - that’s the mantra that I have always worked to. As a result, I have experimented with various ‘laptop extension’ monitors from time to time, with a unit from ...

Always a sucker for pre-packed airline food and not enough sleep, the Computer Weekly Developer Network team is in Las Vegas (virtually) for Dynatrace Perform 2022. With Covid-19 variants keeping ...

As olde-age English colloquialisms go, the origins of the term ‘aye-oop’ are thought to possibly stem from ‘hey up’ or some other positively charged ovation, greeting or human civility. As new age ...

Herbivorous predominantly ground-dwelling (originally equatorial-African) cloud connectivity company Kong these days resides in its now less than tropical San Francisco headquarters. Keen to remain ...

Laiye (pronounced 'lay-eye' and sometimes written as LAIYE) is an Asia and EMEA headquartered Intelligent Automation (IA) provider with some gutsy claims. The IA and Robotic Process Automation ...

This is a guest blogpost by John Wills, Field CTO, Alation Arsenal vs Spurs. Federer vs Nadal. Senna vs Prost. Frost vs Nixon. There have been a lot of great rivalries over the years, and now, ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Claudia Harris, CEO of Makers, talks about ways that businesses can promote diversity to make 2022 a good year for female talent. Software bootcamp Makers ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Amy Sharif, head of data science at decision intelligence company Peak, discusses how data science can become a more accessible field for women.  Data ...

Dolby Laboratories, Inc, is known for its immortal inclusion in This Is Spinal Tap - the ‘it sounds better in Dobly’ line is further immortalised by the fact that the line is emblazoned across the ...

Towards the end of last year, I spoke about a vendor, Swimlane, who appeared to be getting the concept of automation and orchestration absolutely on the money – and in the area where it is most ...

No doubt big fans of Ghostbusters (Zuul - also known as The Gatekeeper - is a demonic entity from the original film), the Zuul community has announced the release of version 5.0 of its open source ...

The White House has welcomed Swedish audio streaming giant Spotify’s decision to add advisory warnings to any content discussing Covid-19 – namely The Joe Rogan Experience, in light of the recent ...

Among the newer names adding their two-pennyworth to the noise in the low-code space is open source Budibase. Aligned to work in the web software application development space, Budibase (pronounced ...

HP, angry that it had to write down $5 bn on its purchase of Autonomy, has now made a breakthrough in the UK court. The court ruled that HP “substantially succeeded” in its claims against the ...

Code does go ‘stale’, of course. Software application development code (and many of the data reserves, pools, sets, marts, warehouses and lakes) that programmers engineer into the fabric of modern ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ...

This is a guest blogpost by Oliver Palihes, CEO at Aircall. It seems that, in recent years, messaging and video have become the de facto modes of communication for businesses looking to optimise ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post Steph Cullen, head of manufacturers at IRI and former gold medallist rower for team GB, shares her views on how schools and the fast-moving, consumer goods ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ...

People (well, British people, Americans and many others) think that the name Smith is a comparatively dull moniker to be blessed with and that Ferrari speaks of Italian flair and passion. In truth, ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ...

During the recent Ocado Re:Imagined event, the company’s founder and CEO, Tim Steiner, discussed how stealth disruptors were used to invent something he described as “really radical”. Really ...

We recently saw a TikTok of the new guy on Dragons’ Den explaining the virtues of obtaining enough money to own a private jet: to maximise the number of what he refers to as his 500,000 chips – the ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ...

Back in the day (and we’re talking when Windows 95 was big news), we used to sit around in software vendor Proof-of-Concept labs looking at what should be physically possible given the current ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ...