PHP 8.0 has support for JIT and union types
Version 8.0 of PHP has been released. The new version of the popular web programming language brings some improvements, such as support for JIT and union types.
A summary of all the changes in the new PHP version can be found on PHP's website, and GitHub provides a complete overview of all relea... Read more
Splunk to Acquire Network Performance Monitoring Leader Flowmill
Latest acquisition will round out Splunk's Observability portfolio.
Splunk, an IT monitoring and analytics provider, announced this week that it plans to buy Flowmill. The acquisition target is a California startup with a software platform that helps enterprises gain better visibility into ... Read more
Progress Telerik Test Studio speeds up test automation and productivity
Progress, provides products that develop, deploy, and manage the most crucial business apps. Progress has announced the R3 2002 release of Progress Telerik test Studio. The new platform is an enterprise UI test automation platform for WPF desktop, web, and responsive web apps.
The new rele... Read more
Google adds .NET on Google Cloud Functions
Google gets on board the .NET train for its Function-as-a-service platform.
Google this week announced that it is bringing .NET Core 3.1, a free, cross-platform and open-source platform for Windows, Mac and Linux, to Cloud Functions.
With this integration developers can write cloud functions... Read more
Software testing: nobody questions the need, but it’s not done enough
Many companies develop their own software, whether it's a standalone application, an extension to their ERP suite, a mobile app to improve customer experience or something even simpler like the company website. Testing these new applications is done way too little, even though it's vital.
There ... Read more
GitHub saves ‘Greatest Hits’ in Arctic Code Vault
GitHub has announced a new addition to its Archive Program. The organization will save thousands of repositories from its platform on piqlFilm and store them in a permanently frozen mine shaft in Svalbard.
The Greatest Hits collection consists of a collection of the 12,000 most popular repositor... Read more
Google will roll out end-to-end encryption for Android Messages
For the past 18 months, Google has been rolling out the next-gen messaging app for Android users. It will replace old, insecure, and clunky SMS messaging apps. The company now says that the rollout is complete, with the next plan being to bring end-to-end encryption to the app in 2021.
Rich Comm... Read more
Amazon S3 Storage Lens delivers storage cost optimization
Interactive dashboards provide organization-wide visibility to improve efficiency.
Amazon announced this week that AWS customers will have access to a new feature that improves visibility into object storage. Amazon S3 Storage Lens delivers insights that can help them to discover anomalies and ... Read more
Microsoft’s new Jupyter extension supports more than Python
The new VS extension has been refactored to support languages such as R and Julia.
Last week Microsoft announced that the November 2020 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. In this release, the company are introducing the Jupyter extension, which the Python ex... Read more
Salesforce launches Revenue Cloud, for revenue process management
Salesforce announced its latest cloud vertical, Revenue Cloud. The new addition is aimed at businesses that want to create a single point of reference for customers' transactions. The whole thing will cover the process from renewal to revenue recognition.
Revenue Cloud is part of the Salesforce ... Read more