Could it be that the SOA revolution of 2005 was simply premature? After years of pain and suffering, it would appear that the Service-Oriented Architecture is, in fact, all the rage. What our modern SOA landscape looks like versus what it looked like in 2005, however, shows quite a land shift. Ten years ago, services … continue reading
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 support, compatibility, management capabilities, or at the very least are planning to release something this year. Why so much fuss over containers? They use fewer resources … continue reading
In the realm of patent assertion, there is one man who stands head and shoulders above the rest: Erich Spangenberg. Of the more than 1,600 companies he has sued for patent infringement in the past decade, the most recent is Atlassian. Not that you’d know it was Spangenberg doing the suing; the action comes from … continue reading
Google is getting into the startup accelerator business. Google Developers’ Launchpad Accelerator was announced this week as a way to expand the use of Google’s hosting services. While the company already had a startup Launchpad, this Accelerator will condense the knowledge conveyed in Launchpad into a six-month program. Roy Geva Glasberg, program manager on Google’s … continue reading
Weaveworks is hoping to smooth the communications between Docker containers. The company announced today the availability of Weave Net 1.4, a plug-in for Docker that allows administrators and developers alike to manage the connections between their Linux containers. Mathew Lodge, COO of Weaveworks, said that this release is all thanks to the additions to Docker … continue reading
Sam Ramji has been doing a lot of research into how enterprises can collaboratively work together on a piece of software. As the CEO of the non-profit Cloud Foundry Foundation, the results of that research have yielded the Cloud Foundry Certified program, which is being launched today. Cloud Foundry Certification is focused on keeping the … continue reading
AngularJS fans will have to get used to a lot of new features and rework their applications for the forthcoming release of AngularJS 2.0. This breaking release was deemed necessary to unleash the JavaScript application framework from architectural limitations. The new version, a beta of which was released by Google today, introduces numerous changes that … continue reading
I’m hoping that, by now, you’ve heard of “Let’s Encrypt,” a free project by the non-profit Internet Security Research Group. The project is currently in public beta, but sometime in the new year, we can expect it to launch for everyone. And the timing couldn’t be better. First, let’s catch everyone up. The EFF, Mozilla, … continue reading
When Men’s Warehouse founder George Zimmer was voted out by his own board of directors in June 2013, it was a curious situation. Zimmer was unhappy with the decision, obviously, and since that time has been doing something about it: He’s been building two startups that could destroy his old company. Zimmer has been appearing … continue reading
The “digital divide” may seem like a foreign concept in a world where even young children have a smartphone, but just having a phone is not enough, said United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro. He was in Silicon Valley yesterday to discuss the ConnectHome program: an effort to bring home broadband … continue reading
While many in the Big Data space are talking about stream processing, MapR today announced the availability of Streams, a new product in its Hadoop stack that can be used to stream events across clusters distributed around the world. The new product offers a publish-and-subscribe model for event-driven data access and decision-making. While MapR Streams … continue reading
The Android Developer Conference closed today, ending a three-day soiree of tooling, tutorials and talks. The event played host to a number of companies demonstrating and discussing their work on the Android platform. One newcomer to the show was CleverTap, a mobile app analytics and engagement service that easily integrates into existing application code. CleverTap … continue reading
