Opinion

Measuring real-time

I explore the different types of real-time applications and how real-time is measured based on the application need

Letting go: trusting AI to do its thing while humans do theirs

Early adopters of enterprise AI are quickly realizing that part of the unwritten contract between man and machine is that man will surrender control of data-related tasks and decision-making to AI

Get what you deserve: What cloud jobs pay

Cloud architects make the most, but other cloud computing careers also pay well. Sadly, women are underpaid

Get started with Twilio’s programmable chat API

A guide to embedding chat directly into your web applications with Twilio and JavaScript

iOS 11 is coming, and bringing machine learning with it

For developers, the time is now to focus on the high-stakes changes with iOS 11 that will have the most dramatic impact on consumers

Why measure the cloud

Treat cloud service measurement and evaluation as a center of excellence. If you don't, it could cost you a lot of money down the road

The next big challenge in building the data-driven economy

While connected devices are driving up data production, many businesses are still using outdated file transfer software, such as FTP, to move vast amounts of data between locations

What Kubernetes can do for container orchestration

With Microsoft and Amazon joining Cloud Native Computing Foundation at the highest level, Kubernetes, the open source container orchestration product is becoming a de facto standard to manage containerized environments

Cloud confidence: Overcoming the need to control

Cloud computing requires us to rethink our IT models, but the benefits in cost, scalability, transparency are unparalleled

Vertically challenged: the pace of digital transformation across industries

There is exponentially more data to be managed in digital enterprises today and making sure your organization is equipped to manage that data as a service is crucial

15 noob mistakes even experienced developers still make

In the 20-plus years I've been at it, I've seen it all. But mostly I've seen the same mistakes over and over again

How devops tools accelerate software delivery

Devops is a little bit of philosophy and a lot of tools. Here’s how those tools work their devops magic

How to make the most of Mechanical Turk

The use cases for MTurk are almost endless. Here's how to prepare your tasks and your workers for success

Serverless computing may kill Google Cloud Platform

Unless Google can get its serverless act together, it may end up winning the container battle but losing the cloud war

Serverless computing may kill Google Cloud Platform

Unless Google can get its serverless act together, it may end up winning the container battle but losing the cloud war

Winter is coming. Protect your content kingdom

The struggles that HBO is facing are prime examples of a breach of confidentiality by a trusted user or group who bypassed multiple security controls to leak sensitive intellectual property

Three devops practices to avoid the Thursday Night of Dread

These devops practices will have your team actually looking forward to deployment days

The cloud could drive open source out of the enterprise

The cloud neutralizes open source’s “free” advantage, and community zealotry alone won’t overcome that shift

Get started with Azure Event Grid for serverless events

Microsoft extends its serverless Azure platform to handle events via an infrastructureless publish-and-subscribe service

Responsible retail: treating customer data with care

What retailers now know about their customers is their biggest competitive advantage—as long as they don’t abuse it

Orchestration tools fully exploit Linux container technology

Once companies get past the “let’s see how these container things work” stage, they end up with a lot of containers running in a lot of different places

Cloud computing reversal: From ‘go away’ to ‘I can’t miss out’

More execs are scared of missing the boat on cloud computing than of cloud computing itself—a major change in the market

Devops: Cure for the Thursday Night of Dread

4 data privacy considerations for preparing for GDPR compliance

With the GDPR Compliance deadline approaching, it's critical to understand its principles and set up the necessary infrastructure to ensure compliance. Following are several practical tips to help you prepare

Top 5 traits of highly effective data scientists

Data science is booming and there is an incredible demand for skilled employees across all types of industries. However, the top data scientists have some fundamental traits that set them apart from the crowd

2 cloud tasks to do before 2017 ends

These two efforts are typically low-risk, high-reward, and you can easily complete them before the end of the year

If AWS is serious about Kubernetes, here’s what it must do

Amazon’s new membership in the CNCF isn’t matched by actual code contributions to the Google-driven container project. That could ultimately hurt AWS

.Net Core 2.0: Everything you need to know

In the cloud and on all your devices, the latest .Net release will give you a common framework for all your enterprise code

3 reasons to embrace horizontal scaling for secondary storage

While hyperconvergence and scale-out architectures have offered horizontal scaling for primary storage, it is now time to look at the benefits of horizontal scaling for secondary storage applications such as backup and archive

Edge computing: What you need to know before you deploy

Here are the three critical factors in deciding when to use edge computing’s specific techniques in your systems

How to prevent the hacked AI apocalypse

Adversarial attacks can undermine AI systems, sidelining their intelligence and hijacking them for evil. But there are emerging techniques to block such attacks

How cloud-native security can prevent modern attacks

Cloud-native security can prevent modern attacks. Here's why and how

Nine digit regulation

Are machine learning tools really smart or do they need private crowds to get there?

The critical role of private crowds in building accurate machine learning algorithms for smarter software

The good software development manifesto

Software development is more than knowing what APIs to call or basic syntax. Here’s the whole picture of what app development really is

Why serverless was made for mobile development

Building mobile apps becomes infinitely simpler when we get the antiquated server stack out of the way

3 open source projects that make Kubernetes easier

From cluster state management to snapshots and DR, companion tools from Heptio, Kubed, and Kubicorn aim to fill the gaps in Kubernetes

What is machine learning? Software derived from data

Building systems that learn from data is a better way to solve complex problems, given enough meaningful data to learn from

3 open source projects that make Kubernetes easier

From cluster state management to snapshots and DR, companion tools from Heptio, Kubed, and Kubicorn aim to fill the gaps in Kubernetes

Don’t waste your time with a hybrid cloud

The Achilles heel of the hybrid cloud is the private cloud, a technology platform that just isn’t up to the job

Digital transformation for the connected supply chain

How to capitalize on market information with a supply chain overhaul

Fix your databases now as you migrate to the cloud

Fear shouldn’t define your IT strategy. Fixing your databases when you migrate to the cloud is cheaper than doing it later—or not at all

How to get started with machine learning

Machine learning isn’t something you buy but something you do. Use TensorFlow to experiment now with machine learning so you can build it into your DNA

Chatops for the modern developer, courtesy of Spring’s founder

Java Spring Framework creator Rod Johnson sees chatops as the next step for Slack-ensconced developers to make life cycle management much easier

How to use Redis for real-time stream processing

An in-depth guide to overcoming fast data ingestion challenges with Redis Pub/Sub, Redis Lists, and Redis Sorted Sets

Machine learning comes to your browser via JavaScript

A new JavaScript library runs Google's TensorFlow right in the browser with GPU acceleration—a novel way to bring machine learning to the masses

Machine learning comes to your browser via JavaScript

A new JavaScript library runs Google's TensorFlow right in the browser with GPU acceleration—a novel way to bring machine learning to the masses

You need a cloud exit plan, even for AWS, Google, Microsoft, or IBM

Business continuity planning was long a staple of IT management; it needs to be one for cloud management as well

What is ACI? Microsoft’s Azure Container Instances explained

The “container as a service” lets you rapidly create and launch containerized applications, including from Kubernetes, without any overhead and with an easily scriptable set of commands

How to kick velocity addiction in agile development

Understand the power and the limitations of velocity as an agile development metric