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Full disclosure, I grew up in East Africa. A portion of my heart and soul will be forever tied to the dry earth, abundant fruit & fish, the golden beaches and the unwavering smiles of the local ...

As anticipated and expected, the news wires at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America positively cackled this week as the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and its guest list of some 800 ...

Dapr, or Distributed Application Runtime, is a portable runtime that makes it easy for any developer to build distributed applications that run across cloud and edge computing environments. ...

We’re all holding out for a hero, right? Especially in the world of open source cloud-native software application development and data science i.e. we need leaders, mavericks and people willing to ...

In this guest post, Sarju Raja, country manager at AvePoint UK, sets out the steps enterprises can take to ensure their investments in artificial intelligence technologies pay off. We're at the ...

For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, it might appear to be the season of autumn approaching winter but, for me, it’s been very much the vaulting, or vawlting season. Note – this has nothing ...

Database DevOps company Redgate has put new machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in its test data management and database monitoring technologies. With an emphasis on ...

Widely-liked open source group OpenUK this week detailed more of its State of Open: The UK In 2024 analysis. As the non-profit organisation representing the UK’s open technology sector, OpenUK says ...

As it’s Christmas (well, nearly) and I updated my Android mini tablet option last year with around this time, I decided that it was time to “go large” and get something more powerful, with a bigger ...

Developer and quality assurance teams today are looking to drive meaningful and measurable improvements to the test coverage of their applications, while driving significant productivity gains. ...

The annual gathering of IT chiefs in Barcelona for the Gartner Symposium is a place to share ideas and attend sessions where the analyst firm pitches a new concept. This time it is the idea of the ...

After Donald Trump’s first presidential election victory in 2016, I wrote about how the technology sector had contributed to and enabled the controversial reality TV star’s political ascent – you ...

The is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Richard Hatherall in his position as founder and chief executive of Appercept Limited. Appercept is known for its AWS SDK ...

As the planet gets smaller, access to internationally hosted software application development and data science events appears to also gravitate around a tighter and more accessible orbit. Excuse ...

KubeCon and Cloud Native Con Americas 2024 runs this month with the usual fanfare and (some would say fight) for share of voice over and above the central messages emanating from the Cloud Native ...

Real-time identity security company has released a suite of three open-source tools to help security teams in firm up their detection capabilities. The company’s threat research arm known as “P0 ...

DataStax has detailed new work which sees it announce the enhancement of its GitHub Copilot extension with its AI Platform-as-a-Service (AI PaaS) offering. The extension claims to make it easier ...

PostgreSQL database platform company Timescale has expanded its PostgreSQL AI toolset with the launch of pgai Vectorizer. This is an open source (cloud hosted) software offering that promises to ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written in full by Philip Rathle, CTO, Neo4j.. Neo4J offers developer services to power applications with knowledge graphs, backed by ...

It’s been a good week for "reinventing networking" conversations. And not before time – I mean, look at all the changes we’ve seen in IT in the past decade, from data types and scale thereof, ...

The news that the Linux Foundation has removed Russian software developers from the Linux kernel maintainers mailing list is something that is sending shockwaves through the LInux community. While ...

Microsoft is ushering in a new era of secure printing with the biggest change to the Windows print stack in more than 20 years. On 1 October 2024, Microsoft launched Windows Protected Print Mode ...

AI code assistant company Tabnine has come forward with its Code Review Agent. This software validation agent is said to produce quality secure code by using and enforcing a team’s best practices ...

Not a cyber security alert story per se, application security company GitGuardian has detailed its “Voice of Practitioners 2024” report with a note to highlight the current state of application ...

What's a technology alert in late 2024 without a smattering of AI in it? It's a trick question, obviously i.e. there are no tech industry update this year that fail to make mention of AI at some ...

I’ve talked a lot about SASE in this ‘ere blog, including the SASE Network Scorecard I developed earlier in the year. For those who didn’t see that, here’s an example of one vendor completing it: ...

Enterprise automation and AI company UiPath used its UiPath Forward + TechEd convention this week to detail some ‘day two’ event deep dives on building in the new agentic AI workflow space. ...

UiPath used its UiPath Forward + TechEd 2024 conference this week to explain where the enterprise automation and AI company that we all know for its Robotic Process Automation (RPA) goes next… and, ...

This is a generic model for a local "community safety partnership" building based on guidance for, and practical experience with and Safer Neighbourhood Panels, Neighbourhood Watch Groups, Patient ...

This is the draft guidance page on Reporting for Community Safety Partnership Clusters  in London. Please send comments on errors and omissions to me for forwarding. Similarly please make contact ...

This is the draft guidance page for Community Safety Partnership Clusters  in London. Please send comments on errors and omissions to me for forwarding. Similarly please make contact if you would ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Sheila Flavell, chief operating officer, at FDM Group highlights some of the ways companies can work towards closing the tech sector's gender pay gap.  ...

Getting married and moving home are said to be among the most stressful things people experience. There are plenty more, but a particularly frustrating experience not on that list is attempting to ...

IFS used its annual user convention to up the ante on practitioner touchpoints and functionality in relation to Copperleaf, the asset investment planning company it acquired earlier this year. A ...

Enterprise cloud and self-styled ‘Industrial AI’ company IFS used its annual customer, partner, user & practitioner event this month to detail its latest work in cloud sustainability ...

IFS CEO Mark Moffat kicked off IFS Unleashed 2024 in Orlando this week with a promise to explain how his firm is bringing ‘IFS Industrial AI’ to assets, workflows, people & services. “We’re not ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written in full by Manish Kapur, senior director for product & Solutions at Sonar. Sonar specialises in AI-generated or written by ...

Open source cloud computing platform and company Civo recently delivered a new private cloud service. But so what, right? Well, yes, but FlexCore (as the service is called) is said to be built on a ...

Enterprise automation and AI company UiPath takes its annual user symposium back to Las Vegas this month and we’ll be drilling into the news stream to work out the next phase in accelerated ...

Normally a more backroom, back-office, base layer, kernel-centric organisation in our eyes (if not in the view of 99.9% of software application development professionals), Red Hat has put an ...

“We expect software to work perfectly,” the CEO of Dyntatrace, Rick McConnell proclaimed at the opening of the company’s European Innovate event in Amsterdam. This should not be an aspiration, but ...

Just got back from a Commvault event in London (where I saw more people in 10 seconds than I do in a month in Devon!) which also gave me the opp to catch-up with old PR mate Ben Ralph. In between ...

Qualys staged the North American sector of its Qualys Security Conference (QSC) practitioner conference this month under the sometimes-foggy skies of an autumnal San Diego.  Gathering the great and ...

The green coding imperative is real and it stems from the ground up (i.e. the command line) and from the cloud down. As we continue to pursue initiatives in this space, it’s worth reflecting upon ...

As the world of enterprise open source solidifies, an increasing number of developments are being laid down to take open platform technologies into more expansive mission-critical and quite frankly ...

When you write about government IT for as long as Computer Weekly has – which is pretty much as long as “government IT” has been a thing – it’s hard not to get a sense of what can most accurately ...

Accelerated software development company WaveMaker has taken the wraps off React Native studio. The technology seeks to make native mobile app building accessible to web developers familiar with ...

The best run DevOps teams in the world choose Perforce, that’s the claim from Perforce. The company makes this claim on the back of product releases that it says help teams achieve speed, quality, ...

In this guest post, Carmen Ene, CEO of BNP Paribas 3 Step IT, talks us through the pitfalls and promise of AI PC technology. USBs were once the go-to solution for storing and transferring data. An ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Philip Rathle in his role as chief technology officer at Neo4j. Neo4J offers developer services to power applications with ...