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6 Reasons to Consider to Switch Your Hosting Provider Neeraj Mishra The Crazy Programmer

Did you know that your business website acts as your door to the greater world? But whatever that makes this possible is your web host. No matter the professionalism that you might employ in crafting your website, if you don’t walk with the right web hosting provider, no customer will be able to land on your site. Nothing is more frustrating than when customers are looking forward to purchasing your products but when they try to navigate through your website, they find a 404 page. This is very detrimental to your business. That’s why you need to choose the best web hosting provider. Not all hosting providers are made equal. You need to research both the reputation and make sure they meet your needs and have a clean track record. There are some reliable web hosting providers like Hostinger Global who offer world-class web hosting services. However, not all plans and offers are made equal, so understanding your project and its platform is a must. Let’s dive into the six key reasons

JetBrains looks at state of Java community in new analysis

To celebrate Java’s 25th anniversary this year and the latest release of Java 15 , JetBrains has compiled data from multiple sources to look at what the current state of the language is.  First, it looked at where most Java developers are based. According to the Developer Estimation Model by the Market Research and Analytics Team, there are about 5.2 million developers that use Java as their primary language. JetBrains estimates that this number would be closer to 6.8 million if factoring in developers who mainly use other languages, but also use Java a little bit.  The largest concentration of Java developers is in Asia, where 2.5 million developers use it as their primary language. JetBrains believes this may be due to the fact that it is common to hire offshore developers in countries like China and India to build Android apps. “We might have expected the USA to have a high percentage of Java users, but it also makes a lot of sense that they don’t. There is a big technology stack

Kobiton 3.6 brings new device management and test automation features for Android 11 and iOS 14

Kobiton today announced version 3.6 of its mobile device testing platform with new device management and intelligent test automation features.  The new version can be used now for testing on Android 11 while the iOS 14 version is in beta pending completion. Another iOS feature is the ability to monitor app performance including session metrics such as RAM usage, CPU performance and network activity.  The new Session Explorer enables users to pinpoint issues instead of pouring through gigabytes of log files.  The extended API provides for more fine-grained control including assignment/removal of a group for a user, user reactivation and user role assignment. The updated release also brings new intelligent test automation features such as the ability to parameterize data for scriptless tests and to use scriptless automation on private devices. Also, One-Time-Password supports mean that scriptless tests can automate OTPs for both SMS shortcode and non shortcode verification methods.

Vue 3 now available with new APIs for scaling

Vue 3, also named One Piece, is now available. Vue is an open-source JavaScript framework. According to Vue creator Evan You, this release “represents over 2 years of development efforts, featuring 30+ RFCs, 2,600+ commits, 628 pull requests from 99 contributors, plus tremendous amount of development and documentation work outside of the core repo.” New features include: Layered internal modules , which provide better maintainability, reduce runtime size, and enable advanced use cases Composition API , which is a set of APIs to address the pain points of Vue usage in large scale applications Performance improvements , including that it is now 41% lighter with tree-shaking, initial render is 55% faster, updates are up to 133% faster, and memory usage is up to 54%, compared to Vue 2 Improved TypeScript integration     In addition to those new features, there are two new experimental features for Single-File Components (SFC). These include <script setup> and <style var

SD Times news digest: Applause announces Bring Your Own Testers feature, Instana adds SLO and objective management, and Druva data protection for Kubernetes

Applause’s new Bring Your Own Testers feature combines fully managed service with internal teams for comprehensive test coverage. “Engineering and QA teams are constantly trying to test and release software builds faster and more frequently. One of the biggest roadblocks to this goal is an organization’s ability to manage all facets and parties involved in testing as the scale increases,” said Doron Reuveni, the founder and CEO of Applause. “Bring Your Own Testers solves this problem by providing the established and trusted Applause Platform as a means to manage both internal and external testing teams.” The feature provides access to Applause’s fully-managed service, expands testing results and feedback, and makes it easier for organization’s internal teams to start testing and reporting actionable bugs and feedback, according to the company Instana SLO and Objective Management includes automation and setup wizard Instana’s integrated service level initiative and objective managem

CloudBees takes its software delivery management vision and DevSecOps solutions to the next level at DevOps World 2020

CloudBees announced at DevOps World 2020 the first two modules for its Software Delivery Management (SDM) vision are now generally available. The modules are designed for feature management and engineering productivity use cases. “We previously introduced our vision for Software Delivery Management as a market category,” said Shawn Ahmed, senior vice president and general manager for software delivery automation at CloudBees. “Last year, we brought that vision into focus by building an extremely powerful and highly connected system of record to be the backbone of our offering. This year, we are leveraging that work by announcing the general availability of CloudBees Software Delivery Management in Q4 2020 with the first two modules that tackle specific challenges organizations have today. This is only the beginning!” RELATED CONTENT: Why software delivery management matters According to the company, the software delivery management vision aims to solve delivery challenges while con

Codefresh reports unprecedented team growth with addition of three new executives

It’s been a productive few months for  Codefresh , from securing  $27 million  in new funding and launching its hybrid cloud  Runner  to releasing results of a new DevOps survey and bolstering the  global team . Today, the company announces three new hires – Vidhya Vijayakumar as Head of Customers, Sasha Shapirov as Vice President, R&D, and Ran Zaksh as Vice President, Product. Vijayakumar most recently served as Customer Experience Operations Manager for Electric Cloud where she also served as a Technical Customer Support Engineer. In addition, she was Customer Support Operations Manager at Cloudbees. At Codefresh, she is responsible for all customer experiences and the impact on product innovation, which has been even more important during  COVID-19 . “Since Codefresh is a big part of our customers’ lives, we have increased our touchpoints with them during COVID-19 to ensure a seamless experience,” Vijayakumar said. “Many of our customers in industries like healthcare and home

SD Times news digest: .NET Core Debugging with WSL 2 Preview released, Ahana Cloud for Presto, and Windows 10 Build 19042.508

The .NET Core Debugging extension gives users the ability to run and debug their .NET Core apps in WSL 2 – Preview without leaving Visual Studio.  “For a Windows .NET user targeting Linux, WSL 2 lives in a sweet spot between production realism and productivity,” Microsoft wrote in a blog post . Users can have a launch profile for Docker and WSL 2 in the same project and pick whichever is appropriate for a particular run.  Ahana Cloud for Presto Ahana unveiled its cloud-native managed service  designed to simplify the deployment, management and integration of Presto with data catalogs, databases and data lakes on AWS.  ”Organizations increasingly need self-service SQL analytics, and Ahana Cloud for Presto can now simplify and unify data analytics so users can query data directly in place across a range of data sources on AWS including Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and others  – without the need to move or copy the data,”

Putting developers into application security

Making security easy for developers, in their preferred tools, while still generating reports for the CISO is a challenge many organizations face today, when the reality is that late-stage security approaches can’t plug vulnerabilities deep within applications. Yet putting the onus squarely on developers is a gamble, as many aren’t knowledgeable about certain kinds of vulnerabilities, or where they might lie, such as in an open-source component or in an API. So organizations are meeting the challenge of application security by creating development ‘squads,’ made up of developers, testers, security personnel and the product team, to prevent vulnerabilities from making their way into an application. To create the squad, Simon King, vice president of solutions for the Synopsys Integrity Group, strongly recommends hiring a couple of security experts who have already done that in the past, “because trying to figure it out from scratch will just take you too long and you’ll miss just very

Top 8 Web Design Trends in 2020 Neeraj Mishra The Crazy Programmer

Web designers are always on the lookout for newer trends. Every year, they are pushing their limits and discovering different ways to approach designing websites. In 2020, minimalism and modern approach seems to be the ones that are on top. On the other hand, many designs included in this list are variations of recent ones that have trended. Without further ado, let us proceed with listing the web design trends this year. Dark Any software development company can develop designs that are centered on the dark concept. That reason is more than enough to say that it will become a trend because of its welcoming features and seamless design. In particular, dark user interfaces are favored by many audiences as it brings a modern feel to a website. Not only that, but it makes reading stuff on the screen a lot better and faster, benefiting those websites that are heavily relying on advertising and providing information. Dark backgrounds are also known to help saving power and prolong th

.NET 5 release approaches, eliminating .NET Standard, Core, and Framework

Last year Microsoft announced that with the release of .NET 5, a number of .NET products would be consolidated into a single .NET release. This includes .NET Core, .NET Framework, and .NET Standard.  .NET 5 is expected to release in November, and as that date nears, the company has now revealed more information about what the changes mean for .NET Standard.  As of .NET 5, the company won’t release a new version of .NET Standard, but future versions will continue supporting .NET Standard 2.1 and earlier. Microsoft encourages developers to think of .NET 5 and future versions as the foundation for sharing code from now on.  RELATED CONTENT: .NET 5 merges .NET Core and .NET Framework into one solution “My expectation is that widely used libraries will end up multi-targeting for both .NET Standard 2.0 and .NET 5: supporting .NET Standard 2.0 gives you the most reach while supporting .NET 5 ensures you can leverage the latest platform features for customers that are already on .NET 5,”

New tools are great… just not on critical projects

Imagine undergoing some serious surgery at your local hospital. The nurse tells you that they are all excited about your surgery. Your surgeon is very famous but quite new to the hospital and the surgical staff has never worked with him before, and they are not familiar with his operating room procedures. Further, there is exciting buzz about the new operating room technology that was delivered just the day before that will radically change how your operation is performed. You will be the first person they try it out on.  Farfetched? Of course it is. No one would ever put a new surgical team together with new technology and new operating room procedures with a real patient. It is a scenario for disaster. A new systems development project? Well, it’s done all the time, isn’t it! IT is abuzz. Senior business management just approved the development of a new expanded order management system. They approved a budget to purchase a new No-SQL database, 70 new workstations, a half-dozen serv

SD Times news digest: GitHub CLI 1.0 released, Google updates Coral accelerator, and Open Mainframe Project launches four new projects

GitHub CLI 1.0 reduces context switching and helps developers more easily script and create their workflows. With GitHub CLI 1.0, users can run their entire GitHub workflow from their terminal, call the GitHub API to script nearly action and connect to GitHub Enterprise in addition to GitHub.com. Additional details on the new release are available here . Google updates Coral accelerator  The update adds the M.2 Accelerator with Dual Edge TPU which was used in Google’s Series One room kits where it helped remove interruptions and made the audio clearer for better video meetings.  “The ability to scale across multiple edge accelerators isn’t limited to only two Edge TPUs. As edge computing expands to local data centers, cell towers, and gateways, multi-Edge TPU configurations will be required to help process increasingly sophisticated ML models,” according to the Google team. To encourage more developers to build products with Coral Intelligence, Google also dropped the prices on

SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Terratag

Terratag is a new open-source automation tool for developers and DevOps pros who want to avoid the pain of manual tagging. The project was developed by Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) management software eprovider env0 for Terraform users. Terratag allows users of the popular IaC framework Terraform to streamline time-consuming resource tagging processes by enabling the automatic creation and maintenance of tags across an entire set of AWS, Azure, and GCP resources, according to env0.  It also aims to provide increased visibility into cloud costs and offers a more efficient way to define and share best practices for tagging, labelling, and backtracking cloud usage.  The lack of automation, governance, and inefficiency in the resource tagging process forces many developers to submit support tickets to provision resources while building new applications and services, according to env0. “While collaborating with our customers that use Terraform, we quickly understood the cost and possib

Difference between Computer Science and Information Technology Neeraj Mishra The Crazy Programmer

The students, who want to enter into the computer education world, are always confused to choose between Computer Science (CS) and Information Technology (IT) and it is not unusual to ask for a student because Computer Science and Information Technology may seem like the same thing and many people got confused with the differences between both. From a career perspective, each of these disciplines demands a different set of skills and a different kind of attitude. In this article, We’re going to talk about Computer Science and Information Technology in detail. So by the end of this read, you’ll be able to differentiate both of the fields and choose which one is right for you. Image Source What is Computer Science? Computer Science is the study of programming and computing. In the Computer Science they are focused on theory of computational applications and you will have a good understanding of the theory that how to make computer programs and applications. If you want to make