2015: The Year of Containers
Containers are spreading through the software industry like wildfire. Companies high and low are supporting Docker: Microsoft, IBM, HP, Oracle and VMware, and many other companies have added container...
View ArticleNew platforms from AWS for game developers, Safer Internet Day 2016, and an...
Amazon has announced that Amazon Lumberyard, a free, cross-platform 3D game engine for developers, is available to download in beta for PC and console developers. (Mobile and VR versions are coming...
View ArticleAn inside look at how Netflix builds code
Netflix is known as a place to binge watch television, but behind the scenes, there’s much going on before everyone’s favorite shows can be streamed. There are many tools and techniques the company...
View ArticleAnalyst View: Microsoft and the new market realities
Microsoft releases SQL Server for Linux. Microsoft joins the Eclipse Foundation. Microsoft strikes a deep partnership with Red Hat. Microsoft open-sources .NET and C#. Microsoft releases Office for...
View ArticleReact v15.0 released, AWS Lambda functions using Node.js 4.3.2 runtime, and...
The React team has released a stable version of React v15.0, which follows the previous 0.14 version. With this release, React no longer actively supports Internet Explorer 8, among other new features...
View ArticleHow Major League Baseball develops software
When you’re watching the Oakland Athletics beat up on the Anaheim Angels on the MLB.tv streaming service, you’re probably not thinking about the software involved in that equation. But it’s the...
View ArticleWercker Workflows available for managing container pipelines for distributed...
To give developers the tools they need to build complex applications, Wercker, a container-centric developer automation platform, announced the general availability of Wercker Workflows so developers...
View ArticlePostgreSQL 9.6 beta, SyntaxNet goes open source, and Mozilla files a motion...
The first beta release of PostgreSQL 9.6 is ready for download, containing previews of all the features that will become available when the final version is here. The PostgreSQL Global Development...
View ArticleCloud Foundry Summit highlights growth of PaaS
While Cloud Foundry offers many useful benefits and has a quickly growing ecosystem, it is the cloud neutrality that lies at the heart of this open-source project and foundation. This was the message...
View ArticleAT&T open-sources its SDN platform, Apple opening imaging lab in France, and...
AT&T is making its current Enhanced Control, Orchestration, Management and Policy platform available as open source. The company is working with the Linux Foundation on the structure of this...
View ArticleRackspace manages security across clouds
Rackspace is hoping security will draw more enterprises to its OpenStack offerings. The company has announced plans to extend its Rackspace Managed Security platform to support Microsoft Azure. The...
View ArticleKony enhances support for mobile and IoT apps on the Amazon Web Services cloud
Kony, Inc., a leading enterprise mobility company, today announced enhanced support for applications running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and updates to its offerings in AWS Marketplace. This includes...
View ArticleIndie Hackers platform, the AWS Application Load Balancer, CoreOS delivers...
Developers and hackers that want to make their side projects profitable or well-known now have a new platform to try: Indie Hackers. It allows individuals to learn how other developers are “writing...
View ArticleShippable’s new Continuous Delivery platform, Automic updates Release...
Shippable has added key features to its new Continuous Deployment platform, which can be used by software organizations that are looking to further streamline the process of shipping their software....
View ArticleAndroid 7.1 Developer Preview, Julia 0.5, and Cloud Migration Service from...
Android is revealing Android 7.1 Nougat with its Developer Preview, including features for consumers and developers. The Developer Preview itself is available later this month, similar to what the...
View ArticleDeepMind AI model can learn from own memory, Zuckerberg seeks voice actor for...
DeepMind, an artificial intelligence firm that is now under the Alphabet umbrella, has developed differentiable neural computers (DNCs), which can learn from examples like neural networks, but can...
View ArticleFormer Netflix architect joins AWS
You may be familiar with Adrian Cockroft’s work at Netflix. Under his guidance, that company innovated in numerous ways; none the least of which was around high availability and resilience. While...
View ArticleApcera’s container-management platform helps enterprises containerize...
Apcera announced its new container-management platform for cloud-native and legacy applications today, which takes a security-first approach and aims to help enterprises containerize costly and...
View ArticleReport looks into Android device customization, Kony Mobility Platform, and...
The Application Developers Alliance has conducted a story on Android device customization and consumer choices, and they found that apps tend not to be exclusively used, and almost all Android users...
View ArticleGrafana 4.0 gets alerting feature, HPE StormRunner Load through AWS...
Grafana 4.0 is now available with an alerting feature, which turns Grafana into a critical monitoring tool. This release also comes with new minor features, fixes and an improved UX. According to...
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