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How to keep container secrets secret

Keeping secrets secret in container-based applications is complex and challenging, but far from hopeless

Data is eating the software that is eating the world

The data-driven machine learning algorithms that power AI will not only upend programming, but lower the barriers to AI itself

Should ‘Made in America’ apply to cloud providers?

As commoditization creates more competition in the public cloud, U.S. companies may have to choose between buying American and lower prices

Data is eating the software that is eating the world

The data-driven machine learning algorithms that power AI will not only upend programming, but lower the barriers to AI itself

Developer Skills at Work: Serious (and Not-So-Serious) Stuff

9 crushing performance problems in scalable systems

We have no shortage of ways to slow complex systems to a crawl. Fix these nine, and a tenth will be along soon

How Rust can replace C, with Python’s help

Four new projects make it easier to develop Rust libraries with Python bindings, allowing Rust to replace C as a low-level Python partner

Best practices for migrating data to the cloud

Moving petabytes of production data is a trick best done with mirrors. Follow these steps to minimize risk and cost and maximize flexibility

Building the virtual assistant everyone wants

The four key areas developers and testers need to master to create the high-quality virtual assistants users expect

Understand the multicloud management trade-off

Tools that abstract away the complexity of running multiple clouds can also hide powerful cloud-native features

Ease into Kubernetes on Microsoft Azure

With Kubernetes baked into Azure Container Service, it’s easy to spin up Kubernetes-managed container clusters that tap native Azure services

10 essential MySQL performance tuning tips

From workload profiling to the three rules of indexing, these expert insights are sure to make your MySQL servers scream.

Why Akka and the actor model shine for IoT applications

For building the all-interconnected Internet-of-things (IoT) future, one computational model stands out from the rest

What is Node.js? The JavaScript runtime explained

Node.js is a lean, fast, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that is useful for both servers and desktop applications

What your software developer wishes you knew

Some basic guidelines on how to work with an outsourced software developer to ensure the best possible results.

What’s in a sentence?

Machines have their work cut out for them when it comes to understanding not just language, but the point at which language becomes meaning.

Digital Twins: A Compelling Use for Simulations on IoT Data

JavaScript for squares: The incredible rise of TypeScript

The web needed a freewheeling programming language like JavaScript, but now it’s time to set some rules

Cloud app slow? Blame the app, not the cloud

Those who complain about cloud performance often overlook the obvious. It’s the application, dummy

3 reasons cloud-native is the next evolution in enterprise security

Is cloud-native security really that different? Is it a must-have? I’d argue yes. Here are features of cloud-native cybersecurity that demonstrate those key differences, and how they can more effectively keep your company safe.

Attack and response: Cloud-native cybersecurity vs. virtual machine security

Cloud-native workloads and containers are inherently different. Understanding how to keep them secure starts with understanding the ever-evolving nature of threats.

What is Apache Solr? And why you should use it

Apache Solr is both a search engine and a distributed document database with SQL support. Here's how to get started

How to monitor MongoDB database performance

You can keep your MongoDB environment running smoothly by keeping a close eye on six key metrics

Open clouds – Let freedom ring!

Open clouds must be purposely built, and IT must remain vigilant to keep them open

Think twice before using bare-metal clouds

While there are some benefits to using bare-metal clouds, they often don't outweigh the downsides

Amazon Alexa is so smart it’s stupid

Amazon's intelligent personal assistant has amassed more than 15,000 skills. If only we could find them

Windows 10 S: A Windows Enterprise in waiting?

Microsoft’s locked-down, Windows Store-restricted version of Windows could have a bright future in business

Serverless computing. What?

This article discusses serverless computing, what it is, how it works, and the benefits and drawbacks to your organization.

Raise Your Hand and Ask: What’s PGAS?

Which Spark machine learning API should you use?

A brief introduction to Spark MLlib's APIs for basic statistics, classification, clustering, and collaborative filtering, and what they can do for you

Cloud portability is still science fiction

When will we have the ability to move workloads between public cloud providers without major surgery? Not soon

How machine learning can be a pathway to compliance

With insights from data science and machine learning, and with compliance under control, organizations can propel themselves with data-driven decisions

8 keys to DynamoDB success

How to ensure that Amazon’s fast and scalable key-value database works for you, not against you

8 keys to DynamoDB success

How to ensure that Amazon’s fast and scalable key-value database works for you, not against you

A cloud in your datacenter? Azure Stack arrives

Microsoft brings core Azure cloud services and subscription pricing to the datacenter, albeit with heavy hardware requirements

Will your cloud smarts be rewarded?

Many enterprises are reorganizing around cloud. For the right people to get the top jobs, IT orgs will have to change

Raise Your Hand and Ask: What’s R?

How will the cloud change IT? Look at Microsoft

The tech giant is reorganizing to address cloud business realities. Count on following its lead in two years

12 ‘hot’ technologies not living up to the hype

A dozen technologies that will disappoint you soon, if they aren't disappointing you already

Is open source good for business?

Understand the benefits of open source software and why it is spreading into new markets

Kubernetes’s days may be numbered as open source changes

What happens if Google finds more efficient ways to drive paying customers to the Google Cloud Platform and other services?

Kubernetes’s days may be numbered as open source changes

What if Google finds a more efficient way to drive paying customers to its cloud?

The latest cyber attacks show why the cloud is safer

No major cloud provider has fallen victim to all the malware attacks of the last few years. What does that tell you?

Get started with the Windows Subsystem for Linux

Here’s what WSL is all about: getting the tools you need to do cross-platform development and management on your PC

How to write event-driven IoT microservices that don’t break

Today’s IoT environments are a potential rat’s nest of asynchronous craziness just waiting to happen

3 tricks to better manage your public cloud services

You can call them hacks, tricks, or shortcuts, but whatever term you prefer, be sure to use these IaaS techniques

How to write event-driven IoT microservices that don’t break

Today’s IoT environments are a potential rat’s nest of asynchronous craziness just waiting to happen

Data at the edge: the promise and challenge

Massive amounts of unstructured data created by devices will move data storage and processing power to the edge of a network instead of in a central data warehouse

What can be uncovered when big data meets the blockchain

As blockchain technology continues to be explode in popularity and be adopted by organizations around the world, new types of data are becoming available for analysis by the most recent big data technologies

Get started with Twilio’s programmable video API

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