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Head in the Clouds: SaaS, PaaS, and Cloud Strategy
All cloud all the time. This blog is the source for news and views on cloud strategy, SaaS, PaaS and cloud development.
Recent Posts
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Coding Dojo bootcamp bests 4-year programs
- News Writer 08 Nov 2017 -
Rollbar snags $6 million for error monitoring
- News Writer 31 Oct 2017 -
Stack Overflow launches Microsoft AI-based chatbot
- News Writer 24 Oct 2017
Hoping to help close the cloud skills gap, the Coding Dojo bootcamp is graduating more developers than any four-year computer science program.
Error monitoring software-as-a-service provider Rollbar has secured $6 million in venture capital funding to advance its software and grow the organization.
Employing the power of the Azure cloud platform, Stack Overflow has created a Microsoft AI-based chatbot to provide developers with coding assistance.
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Is data security nothing more than wishful thinking?
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Goldilocks and API granularity
- News Writer 18 Jul 2017 -
Serverless computing is the next big thing -- and it's already here
- News Writer 08 Jun 2017 -
Forget the cloud. NASA wants your coding skills for outer space.
- News Writer 16 May 2017 -
Making error fixes after deploying cloud applications
- Features Writer 11 May 2017 -
Red Hat OpenShift.io puts the entirety of app development into your browser
- News Writer 05 May 2017 -
Microsoft snaps up Deis in latest container play
- News Writer 11 Apr 2017
It's not easy to steal 1.5 terabytes of data. Downloading that much, even to multiple destinations, takes time.
Which is better, fewer, bigger API calls or more smaller ones? It's the Goldilocks principal of API granularity.
Serverless computing can free developers from configuring and deploying virtual cloud-based servers. There are servers; they're just not yours. That adds up to speed and savings.
Remember FORTRAN? Well, of course you don't. That's why NASA is holding a contest featuring a prize purse of up to $55,000. It wants to speed up some old FORTRAN software by a factor of 10,000. ...
Cloud app developers, here's advice on for post-deployment error handling and making code error fixes.
Red Hat Summit announcements included the OpenShift.io browser-based IDE, the Container Health Index service, a tighter relationship with AWS, and on-premises containerized API management.
Deis, in its own words, "helps developers and operators build, deploy, manage, and scale their applications on top of Kubernetes." We all want to do that.
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The end is near for cloud computing. Or is it?
- News Writer 07 Mar 2017 -
Oscars flub evokes recent cloud-computing snafus
- News Writer 27 Feb 2017 -
Is 30% of your cloud spending wasted? Survey says yes.
- News Writer 15 Feb 2017 -
Is IoT turning into the Internet of Thugs?
- News Writer 30 Jan 2017 -
Why to use APIs, explained in 18 words
- News Writer 19 Jan 2017
The need for instantaneous information exchange makes peer mesh networks inevitable. The network latency associated with a device-to-datacenter model and the corresponding datacenter-to-device ...
Now that La La Land, er, Moonlight has won the Oscar for best picture, let's look back at some cloud computing flubs. May we all learn from our mistakes.
Survey respondents estimate that 30% of cloud spending is wasted. How in the world -- or in the cloud -- did this happen, and happen so quickly?
Hackers hold a hotel's guestroom cardkey access system for ransom. And it's not the first time. Now, the hotel reportedly is planning a return to good, old-fashioned metal keys.
18 words is all you need: "Every feature, function, and use is transmitted through APIs, which gives us the ability to grow our platform."