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Media outlets are reporting that Google is considering commercializing its Spanner distributed database technology. The company uses Spanner internally to run many of its core services, and now engineers from
The recent U.K. referendum vote to leave the European Union (EU) could have some major implications for the cloud computing market. EU privacy laws and other regulations require that cloud
The traditional view of productivity and how to improve it is completely backwards. Most people think of productivity as a personal attribute of themselves (or their subordinates). X does twice
Market research firm Gartner is reporting that enterprises are spending only 10 percent of their development budgets on mobile development. That’s a 2 percent decrease since last year. “Demand for
IBM has announced the release of MobileFirst Foundation 8.0, its updated suite of tools for mobile development, testing and management. The key change from previous versions of the software is
IBM has launched a new cloud computing services integration tool called cloudMatrix. Based on technology IBM acquired when it bought Gravitant last November, cloudMatrix offers a gateway to public cloud
I often hear people say that using stored procedures protects you against SQL injection attacks. This is incorrect. The vulnerability to SQL Injection comes from concatenating values into SQL Strings
While there are several scenarios that may require you to run .NET code from within Node.js like- programming against a Windows specific interface or running a T-SQL query, there could
IBM’s Bluemix cloud development platform is rolling out a new set of tools for developing Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Called NPM Module and Node-RED, the new tools are part
The classes in .NET are structured to read files from the beginning to end. Hard drives are structured like that, sometimes though there is a dire need to read a
One of the most important aspects of mobile programming is displaying text on the screen. The relatively limited real estate of the mobile phone means that in order to provide
Market research firm Gartner has released a new Magic Quadrant report that ranks the various mobile application development platform (MADP) vendors. It assesses the capabilities of 17 different mobile development
During the DockerCon 2016 event, Docker unveiled Docker Engine 1.12. For the first time, this update includes container orchestration technology. “Prior to Docker 1.12, users would have had to download
The Eclipse Foundation, which is best known for its open source Java IDE, has announced that it has updated four of its Internet of Things (IoT) tools. The updates include
Traditionally, developers built applications and then discovered that parts of the infrastructure necessary for their application might useful on their own, or that it would be beneficial for third-party developers
ContainerX has announced that its container-as-a-service solution, which has been in beta trials, is now generally available. The containerization platform supports both Linux and Windows, which is fairly unique in
Google has announced that it is opening a new machine learning research lab in Zurich, Switzerland. Already a leader in artificial intelligence research, Google says this new group will focus
In today’s information-rich world, people read more than ever. We are constantly bombarded with text. Software developers, in particular, read a great deal. But, what part do books play in
Microsoft has introduced a new open source project called Project Bletchley that expands on its plans for blockchain technology. Blockchain is the distributed database technology that forms the basis for
Sometimes when presenting your query’s value, you end up with NULL values, obviously. The irritating thing about NULL values, especially with NULL Date values, is that when you attempt to
Many of the announcements Apple made at its Worldwide Development Conference (WWDC) were focused on the consumer market for its products, but it also had some news of interest for
Chef has released a new open source project called Habitat that offers application automation capabilities which could be helpful for enterprises that use DevOps practices. Somewhat similar to containerization, Habitat
Cloud-based enterprise content management vendor Box has launched a new developer website. The service has long courted developers, but this new site marks a heightened effort to reach out. “People
Microsoft has updated Computational Network Toolkit (CNTK), its set of open source artificial intelligence (AI) tools that was first released in January. CNTK 1.5 includes better support for parallel processing
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Docker have signed a partnership that will result in HPE bundling Docker’s container software into much of its hardware, including servers and hyperconverged systems. More
A group calling itself Java EE Guardians has posted a Change.org petition that complains about Oracle’s oversight of Java Enterprise Edition (EE). The group is asking Oracle to clarify its
At the Spark Summit 2016, Databricks launched a new security framework for Apache Spark. Called Databricks Enterprise Security (DBES), the framework includes features like encryption, identity management, role-based access control,
In Rational Tech Adoption, I discussed how to decide about whether or not to adopt new technologies. But that decision is not context-free. There is always a switching cost. If
IBM has unveiled a new cloud development environment called the IBM Data Science Experience. The company says that the new environment, which is based on Apache Spark, is the “first
SonarQube?is a popular open source platform for managing quality in the scope of an application life cycle. It covers the seven axes of quality around the source code, namely???code clones,
