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AWS Lambda has been around for a few years now, and it remains the most popular way to experiment with serverless technology. If you're not familiar with serverless, it's a model of development in which managing, provisioning, and scaling servers is abstracted away from application development. Servers do exist in a serverless world, but they are completely managed by the cloud provider, allowing developers to focus on packaging their code for deployment.

Last year, my friends at Appian commissioned some research through the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), Financiers ridden with technical debt. The results were interesting: Research from The Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by Appian, finds that just over a third (34%) of IT decision makers believe that the reduction or elimination of legacy IT would do most to help their organisation achieve its automation objectives.

In this Kongcast episode, Josh Long, Spring Developer Advocate at VMware, dives into how Spring changed the way developers build Java applications and introduces you to Spring Native. Check out the transcript and video from our conversation below, and be sure to subscribe to get email alerts for the latest new episodes.

Building a great game involves uniting team members and their tools. But too often, developers spend more time setting up their environment and building their pipeline, rather than innovating. Perforce Software has been working with Microsoft to address these challenges. It started with the Enhanced Studio Pack. This lets studios quickly launch a pre-configured environment with industry-leading tools.

The Perforce team is at the annual Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, CA, March 21-25. Here, the Perforce team has unveiled two exciting announcements: An ongoing partnership with Microsoft, a collaboration with GitHub, and a new Perforce product – Helix DAM Beta. Keep reading to learn more about the impact this will have on the future of game development.

As a part of the research for our latest report about mobile product success in finance and banking, we talked to leads of mobile teams and asked three crucial questions. Check out the results!

The financial services industry, like so many others, has undergone long-lasting changes in recent years. With the emergence of new technologies, new regulations, and unprecedented market changes, institutions have had to contend with unpredictability and rising consumer expectations. To effectively manage constant change, financial firms have to find a way to balance innovation and efficient process execution with risk.

On behalf of the product and engineering teams at Perforce, I am pleased to announce the official release of Helix Digital Asset Management, or Helix DAM for short. Helix DAM is the newest addition to the Digital Creation & Planning Suite. It is purpose-built to help teams capitalize on and secure their creative digital assets.

Elasticsearch is an open-source search engine and analytics store used by a variety of applications from search in e-commerce stores, to internal log management tools using the ELK stack (short for “Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana”). As a distributed database, your data is partitioned into “shards” which are then allocated to one or more servers.

There are many excellent authorization libraries for Rails, but did you know it's not that hard to build this functionality yourself? In this article, Renata Marques shows us how to use the Policy Object Pattern to implement access control in our Rails apps.