Lightning strikes the open-source world: SUSE builds its own RHEL variant
Bad weather in the open-source world. It was already raining criticism on Red Hat's announcement to put RHEL behind a paywall. The storm really seems to be brewing now, and SUSE is announcing to fork RHEL.
SUSE is going into battle with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It is doing so by brewing... Read more
Lacework: Cross-pollinating security is DevOps nectar
When the term DevOps was first introduced in 2009, many agree that it led to a major shift in the way we looked at the software development lifecycle. Of course, in many ways, DevOps was just a label for something that had already existed i.e. teams had worked together productively for many de... Read more
Mendix 10: low-code meets generative AI
Mendix officially unveils its latest generation low-code platform. The biggest improvements concentrate on AI and composability.
Mendix 10 constitutes the latest version of the low-code platform. We encounter some old acquaintances such as a focus on collaboration through integrating the new Por... Read more
Canva open to developers: a powerful design tool in the making
Canva wants to encourage developers to add their apps to the Canva design tool. It is launching a revamped Canva Developers Platform and starting a fund to help developers financially in developing innovative tools useful to the Canva community. The community thus helps determine the direction the ... Read more
Microsoft Build: overview, convenience and security for developers
At Microsoft Build, Microsoft is unveiling a number of new developments that should make developers' lives easier. The solutions come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, from Windows integrations to hardware in the cloud.
Dev Home, Dev Drive
Along with the announced AI integration in Windows 11... Read more
Red Hat wants to make software development more secure and manageable
Red Hat is hosting its annual summit in Boston this week, announcing numerous new solutions there. Two of them focus on software development, with the Red Hat Developer Hub (Backstage) primarily intended to provide more overview and the Red Hat Trusted Software Supply Chain intended to make softwar... Read more
Rookout completes developer-first observability
Rookout now complements its mission of shift-left observability. After metrics, traces and logs, it offers smart snapshots within its developer-first platform.
Rookout is one of the companies we visit during the recent IT Press Tour in Israel. The company was founded in late 2017. Since then, it... Read more
GitHub Copilot X: productivity aid or a threat to developers?
GitHub is making a lot of promises with the announcement of Copilot X. How extensive are the AI options going to be for programmers?
GitHub launched Copilot, an AI-supported tool that specializes in programming code, in 2021. The new Copilot X relies on GPT-4, OpenAI's latest AI model. The deve... Read more
Appian’s Data Fabric gets more value out of data, wherever it resides
Appian has spent years developing its own data fabric. This new layer within the company's low-code automation platform allows data in different sources and systems to be addressed directly. We spoke with Appian CTO Mike Beckley about the impact of this new layer on data model creation, application... Read more
What are the most important updates in Java 20?
As of today, JDK 20 is available for use. 6 JEPs get the necessary updates in JDK 20. We were able to get a sneak peek before the launch via a briefing with Oracle and briefly list them in this article.
For about five years now (since the launch of JDK 10), organizations and developers using Jav... Read more