Darryl K. Taft

RebelLabs, a technical content and community site for Java developers sponsored by toolmaker ZeroTurnaround, today announced the findings of its annual Java productivity survey, which shows that development teams are more proficient at diagnosing, fixing and testing performance issues. The RebelLabs study seeks to identify how performance testing is done by organizations in an effort […]

IBM announced plans to invest $60 million over three years to develop the next generation of technical talent in Africa. As part of the initiative, IBM is expanding its Africa Technical Academy and the company’s Africa University Program to more than 20 African countries. In Kenya—home to IBM’s Africa Research lab and Innovation Center—IBM is […]

Financial institution Capital One has come up with a new DevOps dashboard that the company has open-sourced to share with developers and operations teams everywhere. The bank launched its Hygieia DevOps dashboard at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) last week in Portland, Ore. The Capital One Agile development teams all use the technology. Capital […]

15 Ways Visual Studio 2015 Enhances App Development Microsoft’s recently launched Visual Studio 2015 delivers a number of new capabilities that help developers achieve more with their apps across multiple platforms. Visual Studio 2015 Unifies Debugging, Profiling Visual Studio 2015 unifies debugging and profiling in a single Diagnostics Tools window, bringing insights about the correctness […]

IBM recently announced a partnership with Purple Forge, a provider of community engagement and self- service solutions for governments and enterprise organizations, to use Watson to help cities run smarter. Purple Forge’s “Powered by IBM Watson” solution uses Watson’s question answering and natural language processing capabilities to let users ask questions and get evidence-based answers […]

The JRuby team this week announced the availability of JRuby 9000, the ninth major release of the JRuby programming language. JRuby is an implementation of the Ruby programming language on top of the Java virtual machine (JVM), bringing parallelism, increased performance and enhanced garbage collection to the Ruby world. “JRuby provides a migration path for […]

LinkedIn, which has more than 364 million users, relies on an auto-remediation tool called Nurse to ensure that the site stays up and running. It takes a large team of engineers and constant monitoring to keep LinkedIn going. It requires gathering data and recording action to fix long-term problems and track recurring issues. However, an […]

Continuing on its recent tear in the cloud space, IBM today announced it has acquired another database-as-a-service (DBaaS) provider, Compose. Compose offers auto-scaling, production-ready databases to help software development teams deploy data services quickly and easily. The company supports five popular open-source databases: MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL and RethinkDB. IBM did not disclose financial terms […]

Signaling a ramp up of its efforts to bring more developers into its cloud ecosystem, IBM today announced a new platform for developers to collaborate on a newly released set of open source technologies. IBM will release 50 projects to the open source community to help speed enterprise adoption and spur a new class of […]

Kony, a provider of enterprise mobility solutions, announced a new release of its Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS), Kony MobileFabric 6.5. The new release enables developers to use any open mobile developer framework and tool of their choice to build applications. Also with the new release, developers can take advantage of new API management, […]