Opinion

Build offline-first mobile apps without pain

Designing for intermittent connections is easier when the platform handles serialization, sync, and conflict resolution

Uber should use data science to fix its culture

How do you know if your company has a problem with bias about gender, race, or other factors? The data is there for you to find out—and fix the problem

3 Kaggle alternatives for collaborative data science

If you're dismayed that Kaggle is now part of the Alphabet soup, these sites continue the tradition of crafting a bounty-paying, competitive venture out of research

8 great apps for the Chromebook

Also in today’s open source roundup: Should you choose rolling releases or point releases in Linux distros? And Windows users are dumping Microsoft’s browser for Chrome

Securing applications in the public cloud

The security and auditing model of installing agents on virtual servers breaks down in the public cloud.

Hard drive nosedive exposes backup breakdown

It should've been a simple hard drive swap. Instead, IT must dive into the server’s core for a solution

Azure Stack: Microsoft’s better plan for a hybrid cloud

If you want a public cloud's advantages but need to keep some data and functions on-premises, Microsoft has something for you

The top 3 reasons why employees quit

A new report studied the factors that predict whether an employee will stay with their current employer or quit

The 20 most popular programming languages in 2017

Also in today’s open source roundup: The Nintendo Switch runs FreeBSD, and Zorin OS 12.1 reviewed by LinuxInsider

It’s time to tax the robots

That proposal, from Bill Gates, could do much to ease the social strains caused by automation

Microsoft apes Apple’s failed app strategy in Windows 10

Apple's Mac App Store is clearly Microsoft's model to force Universal Windows Platform adoption, but Apple didn't exactly succeed in its own attempt

Stay proactive to maintain peak cloud performance

Performance has to be built into your applications from the start, then maintained and monitored regularly

Linux: Is Chrome the fastest web browser?

Also in today’s open source roundup: DistroWatch reviews Fatdog64 Linux, and what are some good FOSS video games?

Making sense of machine learning

Machine learning and AI enjoy superstar status, yet most people stumble over the basic concepts — let alone obscure algorithms

Your smart fridge may kill you: The dark side of IoT

Lack of clear and transparent policies about software updates make these devices extremely dangerous

Keeping bridges intact

If you’re considering a new job or career, do what you can to make the switch smooth

AWS, Microsoft, and Google take different paths to the cloud

CIOs concerned about betting too heavily on a single vendor for cloud services hear pitches from the industry’s leading vendors

Cloud management will save your butt

Systems can and will fail. But there's no good excuse for not being prepared with cloud-management tools

The end of IT outsourcing as we know it?

What if you suddenly lost a third to two-thirds of your IT staff? Or, what if they were suddenly 50% to 100% more expensive? Can’t/won’t happen? Think of what could happen to the H-1B program. Ironically, the cloud may save you.

AWS outage proves one cloud isn’t enough

Like it or not, we're all getting more and more dependent on the cloud. But Tuesday's outage shows the folly of depending on only one cloud

Harness Hadoop and Spark for user-friendly BI

Datameer aligns the power of open source big data technologies with the needs of business users, not specialists

Raspberry Pi Foundation announces the best return gift

The Foundation celebrates its fifth birthday with a new Raspberry Pi board

IT gets a taste of the other side of tech support

In search of a simple service, a techie is frustrated personally and professionally by bad web work

Microsoft Graph: The APIs to Office 365’s hidden riches

The possibility: A knowledge network that can map both the relationships among individuals and with their content

Install Simple Screen Recorder in Ubuntu 16.04 or 16.10

Also in today’s open source roundup: Why Dell’s gamble on Linux laptops paid off, and Mozilla has acquired Pocket

Windows 10 wants to make Android its iPhone

Unlocking your PC from a Samsung Galaxy smartphone is the next step in Microsoft's journey to replicate Apple's Handoff ecosystem

Unlike big data, IoT may live up to the hype

While its 'savior of the global economy' status may be overblown, IoT is further along at this point in its lifecycle than big data ever was

Cloud project? Prepare for failure

Your cloud project has a one-in-three chance of going belly up, so plan accordingly

Raise Your Hand and Ask: What Are ‘Solvers’?

SIMD Intrinsics Aren’t So Scary, but Should We Use Them?

Precision Medicine: Who Will Live Forever?

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

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

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

Cracking the last silo

Enterprises know the ability to adapt quickly is essential, but can that agility extend to the core, proprietary systems that define a company?

Linux: Install LibreOffice 5.3 in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Also in today’s open source roundup: Why do some people hate the freedesktop.org project? And 10 command-line tools for data analysis in Linux

Yes, the cloud will kill jobs—maybe even yours

Your cloud migration strategy should include preparation for the cloud eliminating your IT job

Every modern car is an IoT device on wheels

And Cloud Foundry is becoming the preferred platform as a services solution for IoT companies

4 reasons you should use Kubernetes

Kubernetes allows you to deploy cloud-native applications anywhere and manage them exactly as you like everywhere

The worst enterprise architecture anti-pattern of them all

Enterprises generally try to enforce IT architecture design decisions by giving them to the IT department. That is deeply flawed. It's better to give these as goals to the business

Implementing the Composite design pattern in C#

This pattern represents part-whole hierarchies of objects such that the consumers or the clients can treat the objects and also the compositions of objects in a uniform manner

Make Linux look like MacOS

Also in today’s open source roundup: Ubuntu 17.04 will ship with GNOME 3.24, and the top lightweight Linux distros for 2017

HoloLens enterprise apps are now a reality

Real-world uses are emerging, but to gain broad deployment the HoloLens headsets and related gear must become a lot cheaper

6 predictions for the future of deep learning

The potential of deep learning seems boundless, but developers are still figuring out how to put it to work. These near-term trends will help move it along

Starting a discussion on machine learning

Machine learning has tremendous potential to solve complex human problems

The role of the developer in the machine learning workflow

As machine learning becomes a top of mind business strategy for organizations, developers need to understand their role in the overall workflow

5 signs that you are a Linux geek

Also in today’s open source roundup: Linus Torvalds releases Linux 4.10, and the top 5 best rising Linux distros for 2017

Will Alexa become my companion data analyst?

How a smart assistant can eventually become your organization's next data rock star

3 signs of an AI snow job

Technology may appear to be smart, but in most cases it merely has great logic. That’s not the same as intelligence or the ability to learn