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As organizations continue with their digital transformation  efforts, cutting-edge software is no longer a luxury. This lack of top-tier software oftentimes leaves product management teams feeling ill equipped to deliver the best possible products. In response to this need, Craft.io was created to provide product managers, product owners, and senior product executives with the tools needed to build strategy and roadmaps, gain customer feedback, and prioritize certain features and tasks while building their products. Elad Simon, co-founder and CEO of Craft.io explained this need for software in more detail and the ways in which Craft.io fills this gap in the technology industry.  “Product management was probably one of the only places left within business functions that didn’t have its own system and it was a very strange situation,” Simon said. “Product managers had basically nothing. They used to be stuck with Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoints, and Word documents… so that was kind of t

Cloudflare today announced new tools and integrations in order to make developing applications simple, flexible, and fast. With this, users will be able to connect their existing databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, Prisma, or Postgres with Cloudflare’s tools to easily store and access data at the edge. This release brings users three new ways to utilize data in Cloudflare Workers  Durable objects: anyone can now run complex applications entirely at the edge  Database Partnerships: connect your databases directly to Cloudflare’s edge  Database Connectors: seamlessly integrate Cloudflare Workers with relational databases  For more information on this release, sign up to join the waitlist. Immersive Labs acquires Snap Labs Immersive Labs today announced the acquisition of Snap Labs, bringing a heightened level of realism to organizations looking to develop cyber knowledge, skills, and judgement. This acquisition provides users with the ability to build multiplayer simulations custo

Goldman Sachs today injected $90 million in growth capital into WSO2 , a company that creates next-generation solutions in order to streamline the delivery of digital services via no code and low code. This influx of capital will be used to accelerate WSO2’s worldwide business expansion, drive growth of the company’s global partner network, and support the roll-out of its next-generation cloud-native solutions for securely delivering APIs, applications, and digital services.  These new solutions, powered by Ballerina , will offer users a choice to code or use low code in order to deliver DevOps and modern SDLC practices, including integrated reuse, within and beyond the organization. WSO2 will use this Goldman Sachs funding to deliver a new generation of platform-as-a-service offerings that will help to democratize the adoption of its cloud-native technologies for API management, integration, and customer identity and access management (CIAM). Additionally, WSO2 will invest a porti

Internal tools are custom software applications that are built for internal users in an organization. These applications mostly have CRUD functionality and are built by engineers for users like sales, support, finance, HR, engineering, and everyone in between. For example, here is an example of a tool we made to engage with our users using Mixpanel, Reply, and ActiveCampaign. Every company has internal tools to serve their specific needs and unique processes. As Michael Novati at Facebook writes while talking about a company communication dashboard that he was making, “We’ve learned that effective enterprise communication tools need to be engineered specifically for our employees because our employee base and business needs are very unique.” Engineering Effort Internal tools end up taking a decent amount of engineering time. Over time, these tools require more features, or additional tools get built (which is always the case). This also includes scale and keeping track of tools t

Microsoft recently announced the release of Design Kit v2.1, a set of updates to the design system kit that allow users to create dual-screen and foldable experiences for Microsoft Surface Duo and Surface Duo 2 in Figma. With this, users can start creating wireframes and mockups for Surface Duo and Surface Duo 2 by taking the Figma frame and placing their components inside of them. Surface Duo 2 has a taller frame height and slimmer hinge than Surface Duo due to its curved display. In addition, the curved display runs across the glance bar in the hinge, enabling users to view notifications when the device is closed. Microsoft also included two new device frames for Surface Duo 2 that include glacier and obsidian color devices to create a more realistic effect for mockups and prototypes. To learn more, visit here . Imply introduces Project Shapeshift Imply, an organization founded by the creators of Apache Druid, recently announced the release of Project Shapeshift, bringing develo

The number of internet of things (IoT) connections are expected to reach 25 billion by 2025 . As the IoT device connections increase, there is more demand for cellular connectivity from the enterprises and industries that use IoT devices. Embedded Sim technology is a catalyst for digitally managing and connectivity life cycle of the IoT devices. Although there are noticeable tractions in adopting IoT eSIM, there are still some hurdles that face the technology. In this post, we will look at the challenges that face the adoption of IoT technologies and the key parts that comprise IoT eSIMs. Image Source What is IoT eSIM? IoT eSIM is an embedded Universal Integrated Circuit Card according to GSMA, a global association that sets up telecommunications frameworks. Thus, IoT eSIMs are approved by the largest operators in the world. Unlike the conventional plastic SIM cards that can be removed from the IoT device, IoT eSIMs are soldered directly. Developments in the IoT eSIM or eUICC have

Getting involved in an open source project is a great way to build your skills as a developer, especially for those looking to have some practical experience they can show to prospective employers. OSS Port is an open source repository of projects that are actively looking for contributors that can make it easier to find a project and get started.  It includes over 100,000 projects and each project has tags that can make it easier for developers looking to contribute to find an appropriate project. For example, there are tags for the language(s) the project is written in, whether it is “first timer friendly,” and what sort of technology focus the project has, such as InfoSec, automation, or web frameworks. When searching for projects, developers will be able to filter down by tags to narrow down their search. Tags can also include what type of skillset a project is in need of, meaning that it is useful for those looking to contribute things other than code, such as testing, code re

Google announced the general availability of Vertex Pipelines, which is a machine learning (ML) pipeline. Vertex Pipelines supports Kubeflow Pipelines (KFP) and TensorFlow Extended (TFX), two widely used open-source libraries, meaning users can define their pipeline using one of these libraries and run it on Vertex Pipelines. In addition, Vertex Pipelines operates entirely server free. Users can upload and run their KFP or TFX pipelines and Vertex AI will handle provisioning and scaling the infrastructure to run the pipeline. With this, users will only pay for the resources used while the pipeline is running and the data scientists can focus solely on ML without worrying about infrastructure.  Vertex Pipelines also integrates with other tools in Vertex AI and Google Cloud. Users can import data from BigQuery, train models with Vertex AI, store pipeline artifacts in Cloud Storage, get model evaluation metrics, and deploy models to Vertex AI endpoints. AudioEye releases issue reportin

Google announced that it is broadening the scope of Google Summer of Code (GSoC) by opening the program to all newcomers of open source that are 18 years and older.  Previously, the program was focused only on university students or recent graduates.  The goal of the 17-year-old program is to have these new contributors stay involved in open- source communities long after their Google Summer of Code program is over.  This year, Google also introduced the concept of medium-sized projects and large projects in 2022. “For 2022, we are allowing for considerable flexibility in the timing for the program. You can spread the project out over a longer period of time and you can even switch to a longer timeframe mid-program if life happens. Rather than a mandatory 12-week program that runs from June – August with everyone required to finish their projects by the end of the 12th week, we are opening it up so mentors and their GSoC Contributors can decide together if they want to extend the d

Have you ever wondered how much data is available on the internet? Although there can never be an actual figure of the amount of data available online, the internet holds tonnes of sensitive data. Such data is valuable to intruders and malicious actors who are ready to do anything to lay their hand on the data. Indeed, cases of data breaches have been increasing , and so has the cost of data breaches . Therefore, the data needs to be protected at all costs. You might already know of some of the data protection tools and measures. For instance, you might have heard of SSL certificates that are essential in data encryption. They encrypt the exchanged communications between the web browser and the client-server and keep away hackers and sniffers. Today, several trusted and inexpensive SSL certificates exist, such as Comodo PositiveSSL certificates and RapidSSL certificates. The predominance of SSL certs makes them the most popular and effective data protection tools. However, SSL certi

Allstacks today announced the release of a live dashboard with valuable industry benchmark data from software engineer teams for free on its website. This allows any organization to access real-time, actionable data in order to achieve continuous improvement goals by comparing the progress of its own software teams. With this, software teams can become more transparent and predictable by de-risking their development and defining their milestones that map to customer value. As a result of this benchmark data, software development becomes better, more efficient, and more transparent within development teams and company stakeholders. This benchmark data is the first release of a strategy to put the engineering team in a better position to take a seat in the boardroom to help drive predictable customer value and business outcomes. IBM to add new NLP enhancements to Watson Discovery IBM today announced additional natural language processing (NLP) enhancements planned for IBM Watson Disc

Plutora today is releasing updates to its platform with an emphasis on empowering progressive release management, a new practice that relies on analytics to focus on things that are problems. According to Plutora, progressive release management helps organizations scale and de- risk their release processes as they transition from traditional, project-based ways of working to current Agile and DevOps approaches. This role is also part of Value Stream Management, a practice that improves the flow of work from idea to realization by showing the progress of work across an organization to identify impediments to its flow, surfacing insights on how to improve it, and providing the control to guide continuous improvement. Where progressive release management is in place, it has been shown to double the number of features organizations can deliver, even as they release software with a third fewer incidents, the company said. Today’s release includes a reworked Insights Dashboard that can d

At its virtual GTC event, NVIDIA announced a number of new technologies it believes will transform several industries. It expanded its virtual world collaboration platform Omniverse with the introduction of NVIDIA Omniverse Avatar and NVIDIA Omniverse Replicator.  NVIDIA Omniverse Avatar can be used to create interactive AI avatars using the company’s speech AI, computer vision, natural language understanding, recommendation engines, and simulation technologies. NVIDIA believes these avatars will be useful in customer service interactions such as restaurant orders, banking transactions, and making personal appointments.  NVIDIA Omniverse Replicator is a data generation engine that creates synthetic data that can be used to train deep neural networks. It is launching with two replicators, one of which is for NVIDIA DRIVE Sim and the other which is for NVIDIA Isaac Sim. According to the company, these two replicators will enable developers to bootstrap AI models and fill in data gaps.

Veracode launched an advanced scanning tool that enables organizations to find and fix vulnerabilities in APIs.  The new capability leverages Veracode’s Dynamic Analysis (DAST) scanning engine to provide comprehensive security insights and remediation guidance for APIs. “The explosion of APIs means that application development is becoming more fragmented and decentralized in nature, so the attack surface is growing exponentially,” said Brian Roche, chief product officer at Veracode. “As such, API scanning has become the most-requested feature by our customers as they look for a solution that saves time, frees up resources, and provides peace of mind.” API scan results are grouped by severity and provide detailed remediation guidance within a single dashboard alongside other Dynamic Analysis scans. This makes it easy for security teams to prioritize vulnerabilities and access the details required for developers to fix insecure code quickly, facilitating smooth collaboration between s

Microsoft announced that NuGet 6.0 is being included in Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 6.0 out of the box. NuGet 6.0 can also be downloaded for macOS, Windows, and Linux as a standalone executable. The NuGet tooling assists developers in discovering new .NET packages to use for their .NET applications, while also making package management easier during their daily development.  There are several new features available to users with the NuGet 6.0 release. Highlights include  Create and use .NET 6 NuGet packages with .NET 6 Support Know where your packages come from with Source Mapping View Package Vulnerabilities in Visual Studio  Configure retry & backoff behavior in NuGet Clients Exclude Default File Extensions in Build Output   Find alternative packages with Improved Deprecation Information in Visual Studio Add a package README in Visual Studio And faster Solution Load & Branch Switching in Visual Studio  NuGet 6.0 is also the first release to offer full authoring a