The evolving role of developers in data analytics
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by Ariel Katz
5h ago
The ability to harness the immense power of data analytics is fast becoming a fundamental requirement for organizations across all industries. Integrating data analytics into custom applications—long viewed as the job of third-party applications and extensions—is increasingly becoming the responsibility of the software developer. By embedding analytics natively into an application, users are ensured a level of compatibility, scalability, and security above what third-party add-ons can provide. But this requires some renewed thinking about the role of the developer. Expanding the role of the so ..read more
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Applitools and Kobiton team up to combine their automated and mobile testing strengths
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by Jenna Barron
5h ago
The testing companies Applitools and Kobiton are teaming up to combine their strengths and bring better testing benefits to customers.  Kobiton, a provider of mobile testing tools, will integrate with Applitools’ test automation platform, Applitools Intelligent Testing Platform.  With this, Applitools customers will now be able to access hundreds of real mobile devices and perform automated tests on them. Applitools believes this will help cut down on tool sprawl, because until now, its customers had to turn to their own devices or third-party cloud devices in order to test mobile ap ..read more
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Wind River Studio Developer can now be hosted on AWS
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by Jenna Barron
22h ago
Wind River has announced that its development platform Wind River Studio Developer is now available on AWS.  According to Wind River, this new partnership is of particular interest to those developing software-defined vehicles. This is because it gives customers the “benefits of cloud-scale automated build and test for safety-critical embedded edge platforms,” the company wrote in a press release.  Wind River Studio Developer utilizes Amazon EC2 for building, testing, and deploying software to vehicles. Studio also offers integration with Amazon Q, Amazon’s generative AI assistant an ..read more
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Databricks releases new open LLM
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by Jenna Barron
22h ago
Databricks has just launched a new LLM designed to enable customers to build and fine-tune their own custom LLMs. The company hopes that by releasing this model, it will further democratize access to AI and enable its customers to build their own models based on their own data.  According to Databricks, the new model, DBRX, outperforms the current open source LLMs using the standard benchmarks. It also beats out GPT 3.5 on several benchmarks as well.  It was created by Mosaic AI, trained on NVIDIA DGX Cloud, and built on the MegaBlocks open source project.  “At Databricks, our v ..read more
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WaveMaker Releases New Modern Development System for Enterprise-Grade Software
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by SD Times Newswire
1d ago
WaveMaker, the breakthrough development system for accelerating enterprise-grade software development, has updated its platform in response to customer demand for more sophisticated API and code management tools. The new version of WaveMaker now works on the latest Angular technology platform. WaveMaker’s announcement is part of a larger strategy to seamlessly integrate AI into the software development lifecycle, enabling developers to not just accelerate but exponentially improve the quality of enterprise software they write. This forward-thinking approach ensures that WaveMaker’s AI-infused ..read more
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Observe Announces $115 Million In Series B Financing
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by SD Times Newswire
1d ago
Observe, Inc. the SaaS observability company reinventing the way machine-generated data is stored, managed and analyzed, today announced the Company has closed a Series B funding round of $115 million led by Sutter Hill Ventures with participation from existing investors Capital One Ventures and Madrona and new investor Snowflake Ventures. The Series B funding, raised at a valuation 10x higher than the company’s Series A round four years ago, promises to further accelerate Observe’s growth. In FY2024, ARR increased 171%, TCV increased 194% and NRR, an indication of a product’s sticki ..read more
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Airtable launches several new AI-based features to improve productivity
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by Jenna Barron
1d ago
The low-code platform Airtable is trying to make it even easier for users to create applications on its platform with the launch of new features in Airtable AI. The first update is the ability to extract insights from large amounts of data. It provides an easy-to-understand summary of the insights, which can then be shared with other users or teams. For instance, it can analyze unstructured data such as customer feedback and summarize the most relevant points.  Next, the company added the ability to automatically apply categories or tags to data, helping teams keep their data better organ ..read more
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ArmorCode delivers solution for managing application risks
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by David Rubinstein
2d ago
Application security posture management company ArmorCode today announced Risk Prioritization, a three-dimensional scoring approach to managing application risks. According to the company’s announcement, ArmorCode Risk Prioritization looks at technical severity ratings, unique business context and insight into whether vulnerabilities are being exploited to help organizations determine which risks need immediate action and which do not. “We’re proud to lead this new approach to risk reduction,” Mark Lambert, chief product officer for ArmorCode, said in the announcement. “With ArmorCode Risk Pri ..read more
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Atlassian hopes to improve developer experience in latest Jira, Compass, and Bitbucket updates
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by Jenna Barron
2d ago
Atlassian is trying to improve the developer experience across several of its products — including Jira, Compass, and Bitbucket — with its latest round of updates. The first update is the ability to connect Compass components to Jira Software. This provides developers better visibility into health and performance metrics of their applications without needing to switch tools.  It provides visibility into things like health scorecard status, compliance with standards, information on ownership, documentation, and CI/CD events.  The company believes that by allowing Compass components to ..read more
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Perforce Software completes acquisition of Delphix
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by Jenna Barron
2d ago
The development tools company Perforce Software has announced it completed its acquisition of Delphix, which is a provider of enterprise data management software. By bringing Delphix’ technology into Perforce’s portfolio, Perforce hopes to provide its customers with more data automation and compliance capabilities. “Data is at the heart of how enterprises operate today and essential for successful software development, but accessing and managing that data is extremely challenging,” Jim Cassens, CEO of Perforce, wrote in a blog post announcing the acquisition last month. “Many teams do not have ..read more
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