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Salesforce Integrates Force.com and Heroku Connect

Salesforce is tying together its two cloud development platforms: Heroku, which is targeted at startups and mobile development shops, and Force.com, which is more for enterprise application development teams. Both

Why One Ecommerce Site Moved from Rails to Scala

ReadWrite has published an interview with Eric Bowman, the vice president of architecture for Gilt.com, an e-commerce site that specializes in flash sales. Because the site experiences huge spikes in

HP to Spend $1 Billion on Cloud Computing R&D

HP has announced plans to invest $1 billion over two years into research and development related to the OpenStack cloud computing platform. It’s calling this new effort “Helion,” and it

Zend Releases Apigility 1.0

PHP tool vendor Zend has announced the release of Apigility 1.0. The open source tool helps companies create their own APIs by encouraging certain development practices. “We took the opinionated

Is Devops Bad for Developers?

Enterprises have rushed to embrace devops, a philosophy that promises to break down barriers between development and operations, promote collaboration and improve quality. But something of a backlash against devops

Microsoft Buys GreenButton

Microsoft has announced that it purchased GreenButton, a New Zealand-based company that specializes in cloud-based high performance computing. Microsoft previously made a $1 million investment in the smaller firm. GreenButton’s