At a developer conference, Facebook unveiled its homegrown query engine called Presto. According to Facebook’s Martin Traverso, more than 850 Facebook employees use the tool every day to analyze 320
In can be difficult to make money on enterprise mobile apps because developers don’t have the same in-app purchase and advertising opportunities that make many consumer apps profitable. But cloud
Sometimes, Web developers want to use a newer version of Ruby of Python than what is included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). In order to meet the needs of
If you need a NoSQL database for your Web or mobile development project, IBM and 10Gen hope to encourage you to use MongoDB. The two firms are working together on
Many developers see a lot of advantages to agile software development methodologies, but end users might be tougher to convince. Esther Schindler writes in ITworld that their objections usually fall
In order to make it easier to use its App Engine cloud computing service, Google has unveiled a new “Mobile Backend Starter.” It includes everything mobile development firms need to
In the past, Microsoft has taken two years between each update of its Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE), but it is rushing out Visual Studio 2013 less than one
IBM is adding some devops capabilities into its SmartCloud cloud computing platform and its MobileFirst mobile development software. SmartCloud is getting new log analysis tools for its cloud analytics, application
How quickly should software developers respond with a patch or mitigation advice when a security researcher informs them of a zero-day vulnerability? In 2010, Google said 60 days was soon