Several vendors recently made announcements related to DevOps and Agile software development, and eWeek put together a quick rundown: Shippable launched an updated version of its continuous deployment software that
Struggling cloud computing provider Rackspace has been purchased by Apollo Global Management LLC, a private equity firm. The deal, worth approximately $4.3 billion, will take the company private to give
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Atlassian has added a new feature to its JIRA project management service that converts JIRA tickets to freelance job postings on Upworks. The feature will make it easier for startups
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A pair of new reports claim that deploying applications within containers can help enterprises improve security. The first report, from analyst firm Gartner, says, containers are better than bare-metal because
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Walmart is talking about having its OneOps cloud computing management technology become part of the OpenStack project. At an OpenStack event in New York, Andrew Mitry, Walmart’s lead cloud engineer,
Microsoft has released Preview 4 of Visual Studio 15, the forthcoming update to its flagship integrated development environment (IDE). One of the biggest changes in the preview is an improved
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Building software used to be simple. You worked on one system with one executable. You compiled the executable and if the compilation passed, you could run your executable and play
The Linux Foundation has released its annual report on Linux development, titled “Linux Kernel Development: How Fast It is Going, Who is Doing It, What They are Doing, and Who
Tech vendors continue to snap up artificial intelligence (AI) startups at a rapid pace. Today, it’s Microsoft purchasing Genee, which uses natural language processing and decision-making algorithms to perform some
A new report from the Indeed Hiring Lab compares developer salaries in various U.S. cities, accounting for cost-of-living differences in various regions. Interestingly, software architects, the highest-paying developer job title,
Cloud Scale Intelligent Load Balancing for a Modern-day Microservices Application Architecture Load balancers have played a key role in providing enhanced performance experience to clients since pretty much the advent
The Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) lab has released the code for a project called fastText. The social network says fastText helps it classify text more quickly than with traditional
As promised, Microsoft has open sourced PowerShell, it’s command-line scripting language for the .NET framework. In addition, it released alpha versions of PowerShell ports for Linux and Mac OS X.
ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley is reporting that Microsoft is working on a new suite of development tools called Open Mind Studio. On August 2, Microsoft Executive Vice President of Applications
Google’s cloud computing service has announced that three of its cloud databases have exited beta and are now ready for general use. Cloud SQL Second Generation, Cloud Datastore and Cloud
Microsoft is changing the way that it handles patches and updates for its .NET Framework. Beginning in October, it will release a monthly rollup on “Patch Tuesday,” the second Tuesday
A new report from TVP Strategy, formerly known as The Virtualization Practice, says that DevOps teams aren’t paying enough attention to security and code quality metrics. It suggests that they
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The Washington Post has published a long, wide-ranging interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook. The entire interview is well worth a read, but here are a few tidbits of interest
At an event in New York City, Amazon Web Services (AWS) CTO Werner Vogels said, “We will never stop” building up Amazon’s cloud computing services. He pointed to recent initiatives
Fujitsu has announced that researchers at Fujitsu Labs have discovered a way to speed deep learning dramatically. According to the company, its new software accomplishes learning tasks 46 percent faster
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A new survey published by Genpact Research Institute found that 81 percent of enterprise executives believe that the industrial internet of things (IIoT) will be critical to their success. However,
Another day, another story about a large tech company acquiring an artificial intelligence (AI) startup. Today, it’s Intel buying deep learning company Nervana Systems. According to Recode’s sources, the deal
Azure Event Hubs is a great platform for planning real time and actionable telemetry operations to audit your services in the Microsoft Azure ecosystem. The support for streaming diagnostic logs