Celebrating Black History Month
Black History Month is a time to learn about, reflect on, and celebrate the impact and accomplishments of the Black community. In honor of Black History Month, we have curated a handful of outstanding contributions from the Black Swift community to acknowledge and celebrate their impact on the Swift ecosystem. Creating educational resources There …
Verizon expands Its Customer Experience And Contact Center Portfolio With Genesys Cloud
As contact centers are relying on digital, remote-first operations, Verizon Business announced the addition of Genesys Cloud, as part of the company’s global customer experience and contact center offerings. The solution, a cloud-based Contact Center as a Service from Genesys®, offers businesses the ability to deliver brand-defining customer experiences (CX) on an end-to-end, cloud-based platform …
The Linux Foundation And IBM Announce New Open Source Projects to Promote Racial Justice
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, announced it will host seven projects from Call for Code for Racial Justice, an initiative driven by IBM and Creator David Clark Cause to urge the global developer ecosystem and open source community to contribute to solutions that can help confront racial inequalities. …
Embedding Source Code Version Information In Docker Images
Guest post originally published on Rookout’s blog by Josh Hendrick, Senior Solutions Engineer at Rookout As organizations place focus on innovation and digital transformation across enterprise IT, we continue to see increased adoption of containers and microservice application development patterns. Containers have brought developers new levels of flexibility and portability, but oftentimes still leave developers …
Apple Launches Inaugural Entrepreneur Camp For Black Founders And Developers
As part of Apple’s ongoing commitment to empower the Black community and dismantle barriers to opportunity, today the company is welcoming leaders and their teams from 13 app companies as the inaugural cohort of Entrepreneur Camp for Black Founders and Developers. In 2019, Apple held its first-ever Entrepreneur Camp, an immersive tech lab for app-driven …
IBM Commits To Net Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 2030
IBM announced that it will achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 to further its decades-long work to address the global climate crisis. The company will accomplish this goal by prioritizing actual reductions in its emissions, energy efficiency efforts and increased clean energy use across the more than 175 countries where it operates. “I …
What Is Apdex And How Can It Help Monitor App Health?
VMware recently announced that Apdex is now available in Tanzu Observability by Wavefront. Users can access it by selecting Apdex when viewing the application status page. What is Apdex? Apdex is a “numerical measure of user satisfaction with the performance of enterprise applications,” according to the Apdex Alliance website. Similar to how request, error, and …
Saga Pattern: How To Manage Distributed Transactions With Microservices
In the context of microservices, one of the problems that we often encounter is the need to guarantee data consistency, updated in parallel by different actors. In this case, the Saga architectural pattern is becoming popular: let’s find out how it works and which problems it solves. Data Consistency: what is it and which problems …
Rackspace Technology And HiMed Improve Patient Care With Cloud-Based Record Keeping
Rackspace Technology™, a leading end-to-end multicloud technology solutions company, announced the results and solution details of its successful collaboration with HiMed Solutions to implement cloud-based record keeping for patients. The medical records system allows doctors and healthcare workers in Colombia to make better decisions with quick, reliable and secure access to patient records, all in …
Application Modernization Isn’t Easy. But We Can Make It Easier.
Migrating and modernizing your application and moving to the cloud can be a really fun and interesting challenge. You can learn a lot through looking at solutions and architectures. But, If anyone tells you that migrating applications is “easy,” you probably stop listening immediately. The tools might be easy to use, but application migration is …