Tag: Applications

October 9, 2023

So you’ve developed cloud-native microservices, have a process to manage API keys, and documented the integration options. Your devops team thinks it’s ready to publish the APIs and support application integrations. But are your APIs and applications ecosystem-ready? Software as […]

April 28, 2023

Visual Basic (VB) is an object-oriented language and development environment created by Microsoft in 1991. It has evolved from the earlier version of ‘BASIC’ language, which stands for ‘Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.’ Under the VB programming framework, software developers […]

March 31, 2023

Quantum computing is a significant leap in computer technology. These complex computers can solve challenging calculations within minutes while analyzing a wide range of data at subatomic levels. Because quantum computing is efficient and robust, several sectors, such as AI, […]

February 10, 2023

Repatriation seems to be a hot topic these days as some applications and data sets return to where they came from. I’ve even been tagged in some circles as an advocate for repatriation, mostly because of this recent post. Once […]

January 20, 2023

Cloud repatriation may be a sensitive and polarizing topic for some, but it really should be just another architectural option. When I say that some workloads should return to the data center, I am not pushing back on cloud computing. […]

January 20, 2023

Microsoft has improved functionality, performance, and diagnostics in the MVVM toolkit portion of the .NET Community Toolkit. The upgrade was released this week. Unveiled January 18, .NET Community Toolkit 8.1 adds dedicated analyzers to the MVVM (model-view-viewmodel) toolkit. Previously, the […]

December 15, 2022

With ASP.NET Core 7, we can take advantage of the newly introduced IEndpointFilter interface to create filters and attach them to the endpoints in our minimal APIs. These filters can be used to modify request or response objects or to […]

December 9, 2022

A worrying amount of commonly-used apps have high-severity security flaws, especially those used by companies in the technology sector, new research has found. A report from Veracode analyzing 20 million scans across half a million applications in technology, manufacturing, retail, […]

July 22, 2022

Cloud computing is an abstraction of compute, storage, and network infrastructure assembled as a platform on which applications and systems can be deployed quickly and scaled on the fly. Crucial to cloud computing is self-service: Users can simply fill in […]

June 7, 2022

Google has lifted the lid on an update for its productivity software suite that will help clarify why users are locked out of their applications. As explained in a new blog post(opens in new tab), IT teams that rely on […]

May 9, 2022

Low code continues to receive a lot of press—and debate. Many software developers still wonder whether the use of low code makes the application development process better, or if it interferes with the development process and results in inferior applications. […]

November 12, 2021

The advanced features of public cloud providers’ native services offer clear benefits. Most enterprises now exploit cloud-native patterns in developing new applications, even in the augmentation of migrated applications. However, most enterprises would like to minimize lock-in to specific cloud […]

November 10, 2021

Quality assurance automation engineers test applications developed in-house, from legacy monoliths to cloud-native applications that leverage microservices. A typical mission-critical application requires a combination of unit testing at the code level, code review, API tests, automated user experience testing, security […]

August 16, 2021

On Tuesday, June 8, 2021, there was a massive internet outage that brought down a significant number of websites and applications. Like many such outages, this one was caused by a relatively small web player, Fastly. Fastly provides cloud services […]

July 14, 2021

Today’s low-code and no-code development platforms enable teams of software developers—and even non-coders—to deliver, support, and extend a wide array of applications. They are used to build mobile apps, deliver customer experiences, streamline workflows, modernize legacy applications, automate data integrations, […]

April 13, 2020

There’s a certain exclusivity in owning a Pixel phone. Many of Google’s most novel features appear first on Pixel devices, and there are some applications available only for Pixel users. Google Phone is one of them, or should we say […]

February 28, 2019

Testing applications is a maturing discipline with tools that help quality assurance teams develop and automate functional tests, run load and performance tests, perform static code analysis, wrap APIs with unit tests, and validate applications against known security issues. Teams […]

February 28, 2019

The London Office for Rapid Cybersecurity Advancement (Lorca) has announced an open call for applications to join its third cohort of cyber innovators. The centre, led by innovation hub Plexal in partnership with Deloitte’s cyber team and the Centre for […]

January 4, 2019

IT loves its enterprise data centers. Who can blame IT? Data centers are LED light works of modern art these days. Indeed, I like visiting data centers just to enjoy how they are designed and watch the lights blink. The […]

July 11, 2018

Enterprises are moving to multi-cloud in droves. Why? The key drivers most often cited by cloud adopters are speed, agility, platform flexibility, and reduced costs—or at least more predictable costs. It’s ironic then that more than half of these companies […]