Opinion

What the Rise of the Exoskeleton means for the Future of Work

AI Exoskeletons will Boost and not Replace Knowledge Workers

How Cosmos DB ensures data consistency in the global cloud

Microsoft’s new database provides three cutting-edge approaches designed for applications that span geographic regions

Focusing on the cheapest cloud price could cost you more

If you skip doing cost governance and cost monitoring, any savings you get upfront will evaporate over time as your actual costs grow

How to work with HTTP Range Headers in WebAPI

Range requests enable you to retrieve partial content in lieu of the entire content for improved performance when working with WebAPI over HTTP.

Cray puts its supercomputer in the cloud

Now that you can rent a Cray supercomputer as a cloud service, do you actually need it? For most, high-performance computing services make more sense

Leave AWS? Not for easier cloud discounts

If Amazon's competitors think they can win customers with better pricing, they should think again

Microservices need to honor contracts

In the ever-expanding era of cloud computing, microservices must adhere to contracts

How APIs can break up your company’s ball of mud

With Collision Conference at a close, check out my conversation on stage with Steve Rosenbush on the value of the API economy.

The high cost and risk of On-Premise vs. Cloud

How to implement a type-safe enum pattern in C#

The strongly typed enum pattern to get around the shortcomings of the enum type and provide a type safe, elegant and flexible way to represent enums in your applications

A full-stack developer is full of something, alright

Most applications we develop are stupidly simple, so almost anyone can do them. Too bad our dev tools don’t work that part of the stack well

Crowdsourcing Solutions to Cancer: Thank You, Kaggle, Intel, and MobileODT

Microsoft devs: How to create apps for alien platforms

The integration of Xamarin tools into Visual Studio, plus new tools for cross-platform testing, have transformed the Windows-only Microsoft IDE into a universal tool

A cloud storage architecture for the enterprise

Excelero's software-defined, scale-out storage taps NVMe flash to deliver extremely low latency block storage on standard servers; here’s how

The siren song of Hadoop

Hadoop provides power and versatility for data scientists, at the cost of complexity.

Doesn’t the cloud solve all of my performance issues?

The cloud can solve our scalability issues, but what can it do for our performance?

Avoiding a data disaster: could your business recover from human error?

Linux: Is Lubuntu better than Xubuntu?

Also in today’s open source roundup: How to kill a process from the command line, and ReactOS 0.4.5 has been released

Make sense of edge computing vs. cloud computing

Edge computing will not replace cloud computing, though the two approaches can complement each other

Does Microsoft’s Cosmos DB promise too much?

Microsoft says its new Azure cloud database is all types of databases in one. Here's why that might be a problem

How to build a Raspberry Pi-based desktop PC

Build your own under-$100 desktop Linux PC with Raspberry Pi; just don’t expect it to be a true PC

What’s all the chatter about chatbots

Here are four predictions for business.

10 Linux distributions for developers

Also in today’s open source roundup: Is Red Hat a good desktop distro? And why you should run Windows as a VM in Linux

Are VMs more secure than containers?

In theory, yes. In practice, probably.

Good news: CIOs have stopped fighting the cloud

Thanks to CEO and board pressure, and the promise of cost savings, fearful CIOs can no longer ignore the inevitable

Hey Google, why can’t my kids phone home?

During Google I/O summit, Google announced calling capabilities for Google Home, but there is a problem

3 benefits you didn’t expect from Linux containers

Containers started with technical people, so many of the benefits are known instinctively by users. But if you are new to containers, these benefits might not be so obvious.

Cortana moves way beyond being a personal assistant

Combined with Microsoft Graph, Project Rome, and Bot Framework, the personal assistant technology looks to reinvent work across devices

Forgot about Mahout? It’s back, and worth your attention

Mahout is a vibrant machine learning project that is now riding Spark instead of MapReduce for the algorithmically inclined

How to avoid downtime and disruption when moving data

Increasingly organizations need to move data between data centers and/or the cloud, but the risk of downtime during transition is a sticking point

At Google I/O, all eyes on Android Auto and Android TV

What developers need to know about the expanding Android ecosystem

DevOps in the evolving digital enterprise

Digital enterprises operate with radically different datanomics than conventional physical businesses. Here, digital information is the business.

New networking hire’s lazy habits pull down the team

Is the new hire inept or lazy? The networking staff attempts to salvage a bad situation

Will Linux protect you from ransomware attacks?

Also in today’s open source roundup: Ars Technica reviews Ubuntu 17.04, and Ubuntu has a login screen security flaw

How Apple can make the iPad great again

Two straightforward enhancements would make the iPad more useful for more people, while retaining what has always made an iPad great

The cloud can’t fix poor application performance

Don’t believe the fairy tale that the cloud’s auto-provisioning and auto-scaling services make software perform better

Ubuntu Linux: Which flavor is the best?

Also in today’s open source roundup: Linux and the Windows desktop, and DistroWatch reviews NixOS

Why design theory should apply to business intelligence

Getting the most from your data with design theory.

4 cool Kubernetes tools for mastering clusters

Need to switch Kubernetes contexts in a flash? Want to know what pods are burning up CPU? These tools have all that covered and more

How Yahoo wrangles its giant private cloud

Yahoo VP of Cloud Services Preeti Somal pulls back the curtain on the internet company's vast private cloud—and offers valuable lessons any enterprise can use

Watch out for serverless computing’s blind spot

Automatic provisioning of server resources is a great idea, but it can lead to the end of upfront resource planning—and high resource costs

Why Microsoft’s Cosmos DB represents the future of cloud databases

Here are four reasons why there's more to Microsoft's new database as a service than minimal management and greater flexibility

Choose one: High productivity or code you can maintain

No matter how you slice it, there's always a trade-off between speedy development and ultrareliable applications

Data science: teaming skills to harness insights faster

What skills determine success or failure for the new leaders of this age: data science teams?

How to implement DI in WebAPI using StructureMap

StructureMap can inject the necessary dependencies seamlessly in your WebAPI controllers

The dos and don’ts of boosting user app reviews

Reviews are a huge factor not only in helping a user make their decision to download your app, but the visibility of your app in the stores

Linux: How to protect your privacy

Also in today’s open source roundup: Cinnamon 3.4 desktop released, and a taste of Linux for newbies

Microsoft Graph and Microsoft Teams reshape Office

Microwork enablement through bots and chatops apps could be the best thing Microsoft Office has done for the office in a long time

DDoS or bust! Angry gamers come for IT

When gamers threaten to bring down the system, a tech team battens down the hatches and prepares for the worst

NoSQL, no problem: Why MySQL is still king

You'd think the advent of 'webscale' NoSQL databases would have consigned MySQL to history. But you'd be very wrong