API stands for application programming interface, a concept that uses everywhere from command-line tools to business Java code into Ruby on Rails web programs. An API is a way to programmatically interact with a separate software component or source. Unless you write every single line of code from scratch, then...
There has perhaps never been so much angst over whether open source software development is sustainable, and yet there's never been better evidence that we're in the golden age of open source. Or on the...
Databases are like automobiles. You have the vintage cars that everyone looks back on fondly, and now they cost 20 times what they did back in the 1970s. Additionally, you have the new cars that...
Cloud killed the fortunes of their Hadoop trinity--Cloudera, Hortonworks, and MapR--and that same cloud likely won't rain victory down HPE, which recently acquired the business assets of MapR. Though the arrangement promises to marry"MapR's technology,...
Cloud computing isn't one monolithic type of offering, but an range of services aimed at meeting the various IT needs of a company. One such service provided via the cloud is infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), which delivers...
The new hot topic in the tech industry has been around because -- and this is a conservative estimate -- the early 2000s. It has taken us a while to get where we are today,...
I'm not citing studies which demonstrate a diminished number of thought leaders at the cloud computing area --this is only my impression. However, if you're honest with yourselves, the majority of you will notice a...
Together with its acquisition of Java support services company jClarity, Microsoft is making a play to maximize Java workloads on its Azure cloud platform. Microsoft calls jClarity the top contributor to the AdoptOpenJDK undertaking, which...
I have been in certain knock-down, drag-out battles over both the configuration and the use of technology. On one side, you have somebody with a very different opinion as to what technology should be utilized...
Multicloud is becoming the de facto standard. Really, a solid 84 percent of the respondents at the RightScale report use more than four cloud suppliers, including both public and private clouds. (Notice, RightScale is now...
