Corona Labs has announced a new backend as a service for mobile developers. Called “Corona Cloud,” the service incorporates features from the Corona SDK and reduces the time it takes
At a conference in New York City, Todd Papaioannou, former chief cloud architect for Yahoo, talked about his experiences setting up 45,000 Hadoop servers in Yahoo’s 400,000 node private cloud.
In order to improve its IT operations, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is adopting agile software development methodologies and moving to a cloud computing environment. Margaret Graves, DHS
Development tool vendor Atlassian has announced a new Windows client for Git and Mercurial distributed version control systems (DVCS) that it calls SourceTree. SourceTree also integrates with several Git hosting
More and more enterprise developers are looking for NoSQL datastores to help them manage their big data. But because the field is so new, many developers aren’t aware of their
Microsoft is improving its Azure cloud computing platform in two key areas of interest to developers. First, it’s making it easier to deploy and manage Hadoop Clusters on Azure. Enterprises
Developers who have enjoyed the real-time collaboration features on Google Drive will now find it easier to add similar capabilities to their own apps. The company has released the Google
A new report from Secunia shows that most application developers aren’t getting better at writing secure code. On the other hand, the makers of the most popular desktop applications are
Netflix relies heavily on cloud computing, specifically on Amazon Web Services, and it’s always looking for ways to improve the technology that supports its on-demand video service. To that end,