June 15, 2015

Facebook has released a mobile testing tool called Infer under an open source license. Infer can spot errors in Objective-C, Java and C, making it capable of testing both iOS and Android apps, as well as some types of enterprise applications. The tool was created by Peter O’Hearn, Cristiano Calcagno

IBM is making a big investment in Apache Spark. The company announced plans to assign 3500 researchers to work on the open source big data project. ?I like to think of Spark as the analytics operating system,? said Rob Thomas, an IBM vice president. ?Our belief is anyone using data