Tiobe has updated its Programming Community Index, and this month, C cemented its position as the most popular programming language. For some time, C and Java have been neck-and-neck in
Since March, software development firm TechEmpower has been running benchmark tests on well-known Web application server frameworks and publishing the results. They just published the results of the seventh round
Skytap has announced that it has updated its cloud development and deployment services to support AWS and VMware workloads. Skytap runs on Amazon’s cloud infrastructure. It offers developers the chance
Facebook has released the source code for Presto, its interactive SQL-on-Hadoop engine, under an open source license. First introduced in June, Presto is said to average ten times faster than
How important is it for agile application development teams to have fun together? InfoQ recently collected a variety of opinions on the topic. The majority seem to concur that a
At the OpenStack Cloud Summit in Hong Kong, OpenStack Foundation Executive Director Jonathan Bryce shared some facts and statistics about the cloud computing platform’s global reach. Key takeaways included the
Developer salaries are rising again after several years of very little growth, according to the annual Dr. Dobb’s salary survey. For 2013, the average developer made $95,000, up from $90,000
This week, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched two noteworthy new cloud-related offerings. First, the cloud computing platform unveiled G2 Instances, an Elastic Compute Cloud service that makes use of
Microsoft’s Windows Azure has launched a new pilot project aimed at making it easier for organizations to upload data to the cloud computing service. When companies have very large data