Since time immemorial, humans have struggled to communicate. From myth to the modern era, our most memorable stories often involve individuals or groups seeking to be understood in order to avoid conflict. Be it the biblical allegory of Babel to the more recent Star Trek: The Next Generation episode of “Darmok,” a deep fascination with […]
Archives for June 2021
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Perforce Documents Record Growth as Gaming and Production Studios Adapt to New Ways of Working
Strong growth in 2020 continues in 2021 as gaming and virtual production studios meet increased customer demand with highly efficient, increasingly distributed work and collaboration techniques that are now part of the new normal. Minneapolis, MN, June 7, 2021 — Perforce Software, (“Perforce”), a provider of DevOps solutions to enterprise teams requiring productivity, visibility, and scale along […]
Moz Acquired by iContact
Moz joins iContact and sister brands Campaigner, SMTP and Kickbox Paves the way for accelerated growth and product development Seattle, WA, June 4, 2021 – Moz, Inc., a leader in search engine optimization technology, today announced it has been acquired by iContact to form a suite of leading SEO, email, and digital marketing solutions for small […]
Why AIOps Is Critical for Pandemic Business Recovery
As businesses worked to stay afloat over the last year, innovation in many areas fell behind. Business leaders struggled to understand the short-term and long-term impact the COVID-19 pandemic would have on their business, while employees worried about losing their jobs and customers scrambled to rearrange budgets. As we near the end and can finally […]
Modernizing Continuous Integration
In the duality of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), CI focuses on build automation. Leveraging CI practices for software delivery is normal for most organizations and can be seen as a solved problem. However, the demand for increasingly distributed applications has risen with the expansion of microservices, and development teams have the expectation that every commit […]
GitLab Acquires UnReview to Further AI Ambitions
GitLab announced this week it has acquired UnReview, a provider of a tool that employs machine learning algorithms to identify which expert code reviewers to assign to a project based on both the quality of their previous efforts and current workloads. David DeSanto, senior director for product management at GitLab, said the acquisition of UnReview […]
Axway Survey Finds Consumers Frequently Have Concerns About the Privacy & Security of Their Data
Companies have an opportunity to build seamless digital experiences from a foundation of trust. Phoenix, AZ June 3, 2021 – Global API Management leader Axway (Euronext: AXW.PA) is releasing a consumer survey showing a majority of Americans say they would like greater transparency in how companies handle and track their data. The 2021 data privacy study […]
Security Heroes Wanted: Join Our Virtual DevSecOps Conference Shifting Left 2.0 this June
Every year data shows us that technology is advancing faster than ever. In January of this year, DataReportal estimated that 4.66 billion people around the world use the internet: a 316 million increase since 2020. Now, with global internet penetration standing at 59.5%, it’s clear our world has changed, and application security is no exception. […]
No-Nonsense Guide to Distributed Databases
I got my first DBA job 15 years ago, and quite a few things have changed since then. The amount of data exploded, we saw the rise of NoSQL, and business logic moved away from being stored in relational databases to applications. To this day, the three pillars of reliability, scalability, and maintainability are the […]