PaaS gets a new lease on life
Derek Collison’s first cloud platform might have sterling credentials, but he now calls it a tarnished effort. “I see the writing on the wall. A couple years ago, I started saying PaaS is dead. I’m arguing that Cloud Foundry has not been able to keep up. At KubeCon [Google’s conference for the Kubernetes container orchestration … continue reading
Building up service virtualization
Service virtualization has gotten the short shrift over the course of its lengthy history. Whether you chart its inception in 2002 with the release of Parasoft’s Stub Server, or in 2007 when CA took up the banner and market around the term, the entire concept has yet to even take on the status of buzzword. … continue reading
Souping up Office 365
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has called Office 365 “the most strategic development surface area” for the company. With add-ins, Azure and the latest versions of the productivity tools inside the suite, Microsoft is sharpening its focus on what has come to be known as “the future of worker productivity.” Office 365 was first launched by … continue reading
Docker and the ‘coolification’ of containers
His first presentation may have ended inauspiciously with the moderator cutting him off mid-sentence at the five-minute mark, but the developers sitting in Solomon Hykes’ 2013 PyCon session knew that the founder of Docker, an open-source application container engine, had unveiled a tool that would bring revolutionary simplicity to deployment. They began texting their respective … continue reading
Developing high-quality code, the .NET way
Every developer wants to create great software that users can appreciate. Unfortunately, creating software that disappoints is easy. Conversely, creating high-quality software that users will appreciate is hard. Fortunately there are a number of things you can do and tools you can use to create high-quality software. This article will talk about those things that … continue reading
Hadoop and beyond: A primer on Big Data for the little guy
Have you heard the news? A “data lake” overflowing with information about Hadoop and other tools, data science and more threatens to drown IT shops. What’s worse, some Big Data efforts may fail to stay afloat if they don’t prove their worth early on. “Here’s a credible angle on why Big Data could implode,” began … continue reading
Android’s growth is a pain in the app for developers
Although it’s become the world’s most popular mobile operating system, Android is still an expanding frontier—and developers are always the first to explore it. Android grew to 81.5% of the global smartphone market share in 2014, according to the International Data Corporation, passing a billion phone shipments for the first time. In terms of actual … continue reading
Testing in an agile world
Agile has challenged the world of development, operation and project management, leaving them to redefine their roles and work together on one team in a fast-paced software development environment; but one of the most difficult hurdles in the world of agile is rethinking the role of the tester, according to Ian Culling, CTO of VersionOne. … continue reading
Keeping a competitive edge with Continuous Delivery
Businesses want to stay competitive, but in today’s world of software development it can be a struggle. In order to be successful, businesses need to deliver software that loads quickly, performs well, and provides a great user experience, and they have to do it fast. It is no longer acceptable for a business to deliver … continue reading
A blended approach to managing data
Making the case for version control, testing environments and continuous integration when it comes to software development these days is a no brainer. But when it comes to the data behind your important applications, life-cycle management and data flow automation are still new ideas struggling to find their place in the market. That doesn’t mean, … continue reading
OpenStack is open for business
Four years have passed since the project to create an open-source IT stack began between NASA and Rackspace. Two years have passed since the creation of the OpenStack Foundation, the governing body behind the large ecosystem of open-source projects that make up OpenStack. The here and now of OpenStack resembles much of what was promised … continue reading
Plugging in to Hadoop
Even if it’s not where they end up, Hadoop can be a great starting platform for a data-driven software company. That’s what San Francisco- and Taipei-based Fliptop found in 2009 when they launched a social media identity matching engine, ultimately employed by such companies as MailChimp, Dell, Toyota, Oracle and Nordstrom. Based on Amazon Web … continue reading
Companies to Watch in 2015
As technology platforms and paradigms shift, morph and ultimately change how we interact with our devices and workstations, gaps between old and new widen while innovative ideas have room to take root. To turn the light onto those emerging companies, SD Times is pleased to again present its Companies to Watch in 2015. These are … continue reading
Don’t blink: Mobile app testing is more important than ever
You’re sunk deep into your leather seat, enjoying the scenery that blurs by as the adaptive cruise control in your luxury sedan interprets data from the radar headway sensor and longitudinal controller to keep your car a safe distance from others on the road. This machine practically drives itself. Life is good. Your highway traffic-analysis … continue reading
Security is front and center for developers
When it was announced on June 8 that OpenSSL was vulnerable to a dangerous new attack that could reveal security certificates to an attacker, the Internet spent a few days in panic mode. Thousands, if not millions, of sites used (and still use) OpenSSL, and the fix for the problem took a few days to … continue reading
Testing in a Continuous Delivery world
It’s about automation, virtualization, and catching up to the speed of development … continue reading
Getting a handle on Hadoop
From training to tools, these instructions will help you corral and cluster your Big Data … continue reading
Agile: The team game
Experts explain how organizations can transition development teams to agile, best practices to follow, and what to watch for … continue reading
…But the bugs remain
Data suggests quality of software isn’t any better than it was years ago, based on defects … continue reading
What’s the deal with DevOps?
It’s two worlds joined together, but even though they look the same, they don’t quite mesh without communication … continue reading
The new rules of configuration management
Chef, Puppet, Salt, Ansible and Bcfg2 have changed the ways CM is set up and run … continue reading
Big Data, bigger competition
With the help of Big Data and business intelligence, companies are finding ways to improve their bottom line … continue reading
Scrum means being incremental
Ken Schwaber says it’s not just a methodology, but a set of values that can be applied to any industry … continue reading
Companies to Watch: 2014
Twenty-three companies are on the verge of making it big; see why you should keep an eye on them in 2014 … continue reading
Making a better user experience for Windows 8
The developer has no shortage of tools for making their apps look good … continue reading
Visual Studio 2012 leaves room for third parties
Other companies can fill in the spaces provided by Microsoft … continue reading
Failure to test
Mobile success depends on adequate testing. So why do fewer than 10% of developers do it? … continue reading
ALM suites welcome DevOps into the fold
It’s about DevOps and managing the business as well as managing the software, solution providers agree … continue reading
