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Backblaze Runs a Fire Sale on Cloud Storage

Backblaze, a cloud backup vendor, is getting into the infrastructure as a service cloud storage business, and it is setting its prices extremely low in a direct challenge to Amazon,

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Webhooks Support in ASP.NET

Webhooks?is a popular pattern that has been available for a while now and has already been exposed by some popular service providers such as DropBox, GitHub, PayPal and MailChimp, amongst

JetBrains Backtracks on Licensing Change

Earlier this month, JetBrains announced that it would begin offering its development tools on a subscription basis instead of under a perpetual license. Pushback from customers was immediate and vociferous,

AWS Bug Causes Outage for Popular Web Services

Web companies that rely on Amazon’s cloud computing service experienced downtime over the weekend when a problem with the AWS DynamoDB database resulted in outages. Affected services included Tinder, IMDb

IBM Cloud Security Enforcer Makes ‘BYO’ Apps Safer

IBM has released a new tool that gives enterprises visibility into the third-party apps their employees use and boosts organizations access control and data security capabilities for those apps. Called

Microsoft Has Created a Linux Distribution

Although it was once an avowed enemy of open source software in general and Linux in particular, Microsoft has developed its own version of Linux. Called Azure Cloud Switch (ACS),

Agile Programming Best Practices

What Is Agile? Agile programming, or agile software development, is a group of software development methods which have become very popular and widely used recently. Its basic idea is to

Tech Industry Lobbies for an Increase in H-1B Visas

A new technology industry lobbying group called fwd.us wants the government to allow more highly skilled workers from foreign countries into the United States. Created by Mark Zuckerburg, Bill Gates,

2015’s Best Open Source Development Tools

InfoWorld has announced this year’s winners of its annual Best of Open Source Software, or BOSSIE, Awards. The list of application development tools winning the award has a lot of

Salesforce Debuts IoT Cloud Computing Service

At the Dreamforce conference, Salesforce is announcing its new Internet of Things Cloud service. ?We are watching the increasing volume of data coming off of connected devices, and we are

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Avere Systems Announces New Support for OpenStack Swift

Collaboration with Open Source Vendor, SwiftStack, Helps Customers Leverage Low-Cost, Highly Scalable Object Storage with Avere’s High Performance File-System Capabilities PITTSBURGH, PA – September 14, 2015 – Avere Systems, a

Google Open Sources Bazel

Google has released a beta version of Bazel, the tool it uses internally to automate software builds and testing, under an open-source license. Bazel is similar to Ant and Maven,

Introduction to Machine Learning

Machine learning is that mysterious field where the computer can supposedly learn on its own and doesn’t need us lowly software engineers crafting algorithms and data structures and instructing it

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IBM Buys Node.js Firm StrongLoop

IBM has purchased StrongLoop, a company that sold API development tools and employed many of the top contributors to Node.js. IBM plans to integrate StrongLoop’s technology into its software offerings

Salesforce Rolls Out App Cloud

Salesforce has announced App Cloud, a new offering that it says is the next generation of its Salesforce 1 Platform. App Cloud includes the Heroku Enterprise cloud development platform, the

DevOps Tool Vendor Chef Raises $40 Million

DevOps framework maker Chef has announced that it has raised an additional $40 million in funding, bringing its total to more than $100 million. Key investors included DFJ Growth, Hewlett-Packard

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Create Real Time Charts and Maps with Project EON

PubNub is a global data stream network, providing real-time communication for IoT, mobile and web. It has a wide series of solutions for most common use cases in event and data

Did Oracle Lay Off All Its Java Evangelists?

Although Oracle has not confirmed the reports, people posting to Twitter and Reddit claim that Oracle has eliminated the positions of its entire staff of Java evangelists. One Tweet said,

Microsoft Buys Cloud Security Vendor Adallom

Microsoft has confirmed reports that it will purchase Adallom, a cloud computing security vendor headquartered in Israel. Industry watchers peg the value of the deal between $250 million and $320

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The Pros and Cons of Pair Programming

Pair programming is one of the most controversial agile practices and is also the least commonly used in the field, as far as I can tell. I think there are

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BlackBerry Buys Good Technology for $425 Million

BlackBerry has purchased mobility management software vendor Good Technology for $425 million in cash. Once a leading smartphone vendor, BlackBerry is now concentrating on enterprise mobility software after seeing its

Microsoft Azure Adds GS-Series VMs, R Support

Microsoft Azure has announced two new additions to its cloud computing services. First, it is now offering GS-series virtual machines (VMs) which combine its high-powered G-Series VMs with premium storage.

Why Cross-browser Testing Is Necessary

“You can’t load the website? Try another browser!” This is the most common advice we receive when unable to load a website on the default browser. To prevent Internet Explorer