At QCon San Francisco today, Matt Ranney, chief architect at Uber, detailed the chaotic internal workings of the company’s software stack. The talk included references to three of Uber’s open-source projects, but also highlighted the utter chaos going on inside the organization. When Uber was created, said Ranney, it was little more than an outsourced … continue reading
Today at DockerCon Europe, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) introduced a comprehensive lineup of new solutions built for the Docker ecosystem. “Containers are changing the way applications are developed and managed, bridging the gap between IT and developers and helping organizations accelerate their pace of innovation,” said Martin Fink, EVP and CTO, HPE. “Hewlett Packard … continue reading
Yelp has open-sourced its code on GitHub for developers to use. Named PaaSTA, it’s a highly available distributed system for building, deploying, and running services using containers and Apache Mesos, according to its GitHub site. Yelp also wrote that PaaSTA has been running in production at Yelp for more than a year, and there are … continue reading
Today at the supercomputing conference SC 2015, Bitfusion, a developer of advanced optimization technologies for high-performance, compute-intensive applications, announced the launch of Bitfusion Cloud Adaptor, a service that can be introduced to any developers’ local environment to access FPGA and GPU hardware in the cloud without costly or time-consuming integration. Bitfusion Cloud Adaptor is a … continue reading
Microsoft Corp. has launched a new fund to cultivate companies with solutions that bring affordable Internet access to underserved markets. The fund is part of Microsoft’s Affordable Access Initiative, which invests in new last-mile access technologies, cloud-based services and applications, and business models that can reduce the cost of Internet access and help more people … continue reading
Rackspace today announced the general availability release of Managed Cloud for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM). The offering provides a managed automation platform built on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to overcome the complexity of hosting, configuring, and operating Experience Manager, all backed by Rackspace Fanatical Support and expertise. Rackspace Managed Cloud for AEM simplifies and accelerates … continue reading
With computers and devices faster than they’ve ever been, it’s hard to imagine life before today’s technology advancements. But thanks to development pioneers, their creations and talent has led to pieces of technology and software that makes the world what it is today. Gene M. Amdahl was one of these individuals. He died Tuesday at … continue reading
The Microsoft Distributed Machine Learning Toolkit (DMTK) was put on GitHub this week by researchers at the Microsoft Asia research lab, according to an Inside Microsoft Research blog post. The toolkit is designed for distributed machine learning, and it contains a parameter server-based programming framework that makes machine-learning tasks scalable, according to the blog. It … continue reading
Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced results from a recent mobile maturity survey, which revealed that 90 percent of respondents anticipate increasing investment in mobile application development within the next 12 months. The 2015 Red Hat mobile maturity survey also finds that these same respondents predict their organization’s … continue reading
IBM has launched developerWorks Premium, a subscription model of its developerWorks community, to provide developers with exclusive, member-only curated tools and resources for IBM Cloud. With developerWorks Premium, developers now have an all-access pass to cloud-based IBM offerings and services that will help them rapidly prototype, develop and deploy cloud projects. Evans Data Corporation’s recent … continue reading
With Halloween over, an even scarier event is on the horizon for IT staff: the online doorbusters that come with the winter holiday season. The term “doorbuster” applies (sometimes literally) to brick-and-mortar stores during the holiday season. It also translates well to the information technology systems that get stressed heavily on big online sales days … continue reading
Microservices are becoming increasingly popular in the software industry as a way for developers to break down their monolithic applications into smaller components, so today we are featuring a microservices toolkit for Node.js. Seneca aims to take dependencies out of a developer’s workflow so they just have to worry about writing clean and organized code. … continue reading
