Amazon has posted its financial reports for the second fiscal quarter of 2016, and its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing unit posted record-breaking revenues of $2.9 billion. That compares
The technology industry group IEEE has released its annual ranking of programming languages. “The 2016 Top Programming Languages” report analyzes twelve different metrics, and unlike many other programming language popularity
The Apache Software Foundation has released the 2.0 version of Spark 2.0, the open source, real-time big data processing engine. According to the Spark website, “The major updates are API
The Linaro Developer Cloud has finally gone live after first being announced in March. The cloud computing service gives developers free access to bare-metal ARM-based servers running Linux. However, in
NodeSource has launched a beta version of NSolid, its enterprise Node.js platform that runs on Linux containers managed by Kubernetes. NSolid includes a command-line interface that allows DevOps teams to
The Apache Software Foundation has promoted Kudu to a top-level project. Originally developed by Cloudera, Kudu is a columnar storage manager for Hadoop that was designed for fast processing of
Linus Torvalds has officially released Linux 4.7, the fourth update for the open source operating system this year. Key new features in the release include the LoadPin Linux Security Module
Atlassian has released the 4.8 version of its Bitbucket tool, and the biggest change is that Bitbucket Pipelines now supports Mercurial as well as Git. That’s an interesting move, because
According to the market analysts at IDC, sales of smartwatches fell 32 percent in the second quarter, dropping from 5.1 million last year to 3.5 million this year. The decline