Facebook has forked one of its own open source projects—the Thrift toolset for creating distributed applications. “We didn’t make this a breaking change,” explained Facebook infrastructure engineer Blake Matheny. “It
Verizon has announced that the CloudBees platform as a service (PaaS) will be available through the Verizon Cloud. CloudBees is a popular Java-centric cloud development platform. The Verizon Cloud, which
The worst drought in a century is currently afflicting California, but utilities and developers are fighting back with technological solutions that take advantage of big data and cloud computing. For
A new report from Fiberlink could help enterprise mobile development teams better understand which devices their users are likely to be using. The mobility management vendor says that Samsung devices
These days, most developers spend a lot of time searching for pre-written snippets of code that they can use, and Microsoft has just made that process easier by adding a
A report from Computer Economics finds that full utilization of cloud computing reduces IT expenses by more than 15 percent, whether measured as a percentage of revenue or on a
Next month, Google plans to host an event for developers. Called Google Cloud Platform Livem, the event will take place March 25, and developers can take part by attending in
Backend as a Service (BaaS) vendor Kinvey has added new capabilities which may make it more appealing to enterprise mobile development teams. Companies can now run Kinvey on a dedicated
HP has announced a new software as a service offering that will make it easier for enterprises to set up their own private app stores. Called HP Access Catalog, the