Today Heroku announced geospatial support for Heroku Postgres with PostGIS 2.0.Heroku Postgres is increasingly enabling rich use cases ??? adding services from key/value datatype in hstore, querying across postgres databases with dblink, and now adding rich geospatial functionality. Adding PostGIS
It’s my pleasure to be spending much of this week with hundreds of data-heads, learning about all things data at Dataversity’s Enterprise Data World (EDW) in San Diego. As my focus is on architecture and Cloud Computing, the part of
https://addons.heroku.com/urbanairshipHeroku???s add-on marketplace allows developers to add more capabilities to their app development kits with a single click. At the end of 2012, the add-on marketplace had attracted more than 4 million installs.
The AppFog platform as a service started out saying developers who used the service would be able to run their applications on nearly any cloud computing infrastructure, but not the company is taking a step back from that promise. As
Over the weekend, The New York Times ran a lengthy piece that describes how a startup called Gild is using big data analytics to help other companies find talented developers. Gild’s technology scours the Internet for data from social networking