November 27, 2012

Challenges in Scaling Agile

Many companies begin testing agile software development methodologies with a very small pilot program. Oftentimes, these pilot projects are very successful. But when the company begins scaling out agile to all of its developers, they often encounter problems that weren’t seen in the pilot program. “Quite often a pilot project

Google Updates Compute Engine

Google has announced some changes to the Google Compute Engine that bring the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) more in line with offerings from competitors, including Amazon. Specifically, Google has added 36 more types of servers to its cloud. “At launch we offered four basic [instance types],” said Google’s Barak