Gitlab acquires UnReview to fuel its open-source DevOps platform
GitLab has acquired UnReview to fuel its open-source DevOps platform. They plan to utilize machine learning tools by UnReview to identify expert code reviewers from its platform.
GitLab also plans to introduce machine learning operations features to help data scientists with research. The terms ...
Sumo Logic has acquired Sensu to extend its Observability Suite
Sumo Logic plans to use Sensu's globally renowned Observability Pipeline to gain administrative control for its platform. Sensu's Observatory Suite is used by over 3,000 developers worldwide and will significantly aid Sumo Logic.
Sumo Logic, the data analytics and log management service provider...
Microsoft makes Teams platform more suitable for building apps
Hybrid working has taken shape through COVID-19 and Microsoft sees opportunities to play a larger role in this with Microsoft Teams. Employees need to be able to work well together and, with 145 million daily users, Teams already plays a major role in this. With the announcements during Build, that...
Snyk brings security to the software development life cycle
Snyk offers an application security platform that is getting more popular. It has grown into a security vendor in six years with a valuation of almost 4 billion euros (4.7 billion dollars). We spoke to CEO Peter McKay after the recent Series E financing of hundreds of millions.
Snyk was founded ...
ServiceNow fully enters low-code market with App Engine Studio
Today ServiceNow announced a new version of its platform named Quebec. It includes a whole list of new features and extensions, but the most important is the App Engine Studio. With this, ServiceNow is now fully entering the low-code market.
ServiceNow introduces a new version about every six mo...
Salesforce to deliver more crucial IT solutions with ISV partners
Salesforce has big plans with its ISV (Independent Software Vendors) partners. The company wants to play a much larger role in the choice for strategic IT solutions of its customers. The aim is that customers no longer look at Gartner's reports or read Techzine to learn about great solutions, but c...
Rust programming language hits the big league
Major players like AWS and Microsoft are adopting Rust, and the language is quickly gaining popularity with developers.
Mozilla's programming language Rust has boosted its popularity by leaps and bounds this past year. Rust this week published its latest Rust Survey showing a dramatic increase ...
GitHub to ban passwords starting in 2021
The platform will move to token based authentication next August
Microsoft's GitHub has announced that it plans to stop accepting account passwords as a way to authenticate Git operations. Starting August 13, 2021, the platform will accept only token based authentication. They will run a two wee...
5G is 90% more energy-efficient than 4G, Nokia/Telefonica study shows
According to a new study published by Nokia and Telefonica, 5G is 90% more energy-efficient than 4G networks. After studying the Radio Access Network power consumption in Telefonica's network, these findings show that 5G is the gift that keeps giving.
The study used Nokia’s AirScale Base Stati...
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 ...
Microsoft makes large deep learning models more cost efficient
Breakthroughs in scaling now allows even smaller developers to work with large deep learning models. Microsofts new DeepSpeed tool is a breaktrough in scaling AI.
Microsoft has released a new version of its open-source DeepSpeed tool that it says will enable the creation of "extremely large" d...
Latest release of C++ is boosting its popularity with developers
New features are making C++ the fastest growing language in the developer community.
It's been 35 years since C++ first appeared on the scene. The language quickly became one of the top three programming languages worldwide, with a market share of 17.53% in 2003. Since then, C++ has dropped in p...