Yelp Open Sources Its PaaS To Liberate You From Docker
The world’s best cloud and big data software isn’t for sale. Instead you download it for free. You won’t see Oracle, IBM, HP, or any of the erstwhile enterprise IT giants developing it, either. In...
View ArticleOne Googler’s War Against JavaScript Frameworks
Google cares a lot about the mobile web. Though the web giant can arguably be faulted for underinvesting in HTML5 for years, the company is more than making up for it now. The tech giant is doubling...
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Touch ID Is The Gift That Keeps On Giving
If you are like Farhad Manjoo, it’s hard to understand the appeal of Apple Pay: I pretty much never use Apple Pay — Farhad Manjoo (@fmanjoo) November 24, 2015 Judging from the reactions to his tweet,...
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Apple TV: 2,500+ Apps And Growing Like Crazy
I admit it. I doubted. I’ve been an Apple TV customer for years, but I’ve been content to let Apple TV serve a very basic purpose: giving me access to Netflix, iTunes TV shows and movies, and little...
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Google’s Mobile Challenge
Google’s master plan has always been clear: Get more people using the Internet, and sell more ads alongside their searches. As I’ve written, that adds up to $6.30 per Internet user per year....
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New Open Source Contributions Might Just Save Docker
As I’ve written before, Docker provides a better way to package and distribute software, which is one reason Docker adoption keeps booming, growing 5X in the last year. Awesome! But good luck getting...
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Is There An App Divide?
Mobile has promised to be the great social leveler, with 90% of the world’s population over the age of 6 projected to own a phone by 2020. But according to a new Caribou Wireless study, virtually all...
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This New Open Source Project Is 100X Faster than Spark SQL In Petabyte-Scale...
Baidu, like Google, is much more than a search giant. Sure, Baidu, with a $50 billion market cap, is the most popular search engine in China. But it’s also one of the most innovative technology...
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Big Data Investors Put a Premium on Proprietary Software
Despite a meager track record for generating outsized returns, investors keep piling money into open source start-ups. As reported by The Wall Street Journal, a minimum of 110 “open source startups”...
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Microsoft’s New Developer Song Wasn’t Written In Redmond
Microsoft used to be able to count on developers to embrace its technologies and extend its lead in the enterprise. Today that relationship is much more complicated, as evidenced by a new Stack...
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Shipping out: How Docker could scale up massively
The world is rushing to embrace Docker containers as the new, easy way to package applications. As cool as it is to package applications with containers, as I have written before, the biggest challenge...
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Amazon to competitors: You’re not failing enough
It’s a tough slog, competing with Amazon, particularly Amazon Web Services. The cloud computing giant earns billions more in revenues than its next nearest competitors, even as it cranks out innovation...
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What everyone’s missing in Apple’s earnings drop
Apple’s iPhone sales declined for the first time since 2003. That’s the bad news, and judging from the pundits, the sky has started to fall on Apple’s halcyon days. One analyst goes so far as to say...
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Open source near ubiquitous in IoT, report finds
Open source is increasingly standard operating procedure in software, but nowhere is this more true than Internet of Things development. According to a new VisionMobile survey of 3,700 IoT developers,...
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What enterprise wants from Google’s cloud
Google has a dream. It’s an ambitious dream but, with hard work and dedication, Google’s cloud chief Diane Green figures Google can realize its dreams. The dream? To be hopelessly, blindingly dull....
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Most IoT developers aren’t in it for the money
Developers aren’t necessarily like you and me. You may choose to spend your free time making bird houses or watching Friends reruns. Developers, meanwhile, are trying to get Windows 95 to run on an...
View ArticleCould Blackberry have a real chance in IoT?
The world may be melting down into Brexitian chaos, but for a company like Blackberry that’s the least of its worries. After all, customers already voted themselves out of Blackberry’s ecosystem years...
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Employers aren’t picky when it comes to developers
Given how consumed the world has become with big data, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things, one would think employers would be laser-focused on hiring people with those skills....
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Is the GPL the right way to force IoT standardization?
The Internet of Things has tremendous potential, but remains a mishmash of conflicting “standards” that don’t talk to each other. As various vendors erect data silos in the sky, what is actually needed...
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How eero uses Akka to make the truly connected home a reality
Nest revolutionized the humble thermostat and in many ways made the concept of Internet of Things (IoT) part of the mainstream consumer tech conversation. Smart homes would have intelligent devices...
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