Software Development

What’s a Performance Snapshot? (And Why Should I Care?)

Are We Done Tuning Our Application Yet? Roofline Analysis Helps Finds Useful Answers

Chrome extension brings encryption to Gmail

E2Email, Google's latest open source project, wants to bring encrypted email to the masses, but without strong leadership, this project may wind up going nowhere

Reimagining your software factory for the road ahead

Software is increasingly the answer to every question in the technologist’s “guide to the galaxy.” How do you retool your software factory to deliver superior customer service?

Compressing Web API responses to reduce payload

The abundance and easy availability of CPU at the expense of network bandwidth can be a good reason to use content compression in Web API for faster responses and improved performance

Start with Scratch: Learn Linux by rolling your own distro

Linux From Scratch teaches you how to bake a complete Linux system, minus cutting-edge details like Docker -- although for those allergic to systemd, you can leave that out too

SAP sets launch date for its Cloud Platform SDK for iOS

The date is March 30, and SAP will charge iOS developers for classroom-based courses but offer free online training materials for the SDK

Get started with functional programming and F#

Working with functional programming requires a shift in your thinking, but has benefits in productivity for programmer and maintainer alike

Don’t panic about SHA-1—fix it

Crypto experts agree it's time to ditch SHA-1 if you haven't already, but also to know where the real risks are

What’s new in Rails 5.1: Better JavaScript, for one

Rails 5.1 allows developers to manage JavaScript dependencies with Facebook's Yarn package manager