Opinion

The pros and cons of serverless computing

Getting cloud-based server resources on demand is the new big thing, but should you jump on the bandwagon?

SiFive rolls out fully open source chip for IoT devices

In an interview, Jack Kang, VP of Product and Business Development at SiFive, discusses the FE310 chip, which will allow IoT vendors to build their own custom SoC on top of it

5 Guidelines for Building a Neural Network Architecture

4 factors for testing machine learning applications

Is dynamic resource execution the answer to auto-scaling cloud apps?

Today's dynamic resource management approaches are effective in giving applications additional capacity on demand, but performance may not be optimized in the process.

8 Docker security rules to live by

Container-based applications introduce unique security challenges; here’s how to address them

Prepare for liftoff: 9 steps to cloud readiness

Remove head from sand. Resist impulse to hug server. Prepare yourself for the inevitable

Just say no to a bad job — the fun way

Honesty is the best policy when you're interviewing for a job that you already know is not the right fit

Red Hat needs to get real about the cloud

Serving enterprise datacenters won't sustain Red Hat. OpenShift and what it represents may be crucial to the company's long-term survival

Your stupidest mistake when running Linux?

Also in today’s open source roundup: A roundup of the smallest Linux distributions, and have we hit peak screen size for smartphones?

5 lessons from a Chromebook deployment

Subsidized management and apps plus supersimple administration let schools manage fleets of devices and users at a low cost

Planning is over—it’s time to actually move to the cloud

It's time for IT to move from the what of the cloud to the how of the cloud

How Microsoft will drive enterprise IT in 2017

Microsoft’s enterprise reach is stretching beyond Windows into the wider world of cross-platform computing and the cloud

Google and Facebook: It’s your job to fix a broken internet

The internet giants need to step up and repair our information system, because only they have the wherewithal to do it

3 simple steps to compliance in the cloud

You need more than a strategy; you need the knowledge and the tools to bake in compliance

Ten improbably possible predictions for 2017

Advances in technology created to make our lives easier may create puzzling situations in the years ahead

Don’t make risk and compliance the enemy of financial services innovation and reinvention

Taking a risk-avoidant approach to experimenting with new business models, technology or user experiences will be a fast path to obscurity in today’s new landscape

Job inequality and artificial intelligence in the enterprise

The future has fewer jobs, but those that remain will be better.

Coding boot camp grads write better code

Boot camp grads lead college grads in practical programming skills, but lag in deeper understanding of systems and algorithms

Donate here! 9 better causes than Wikimedia

Internet freedom and literacy are important, particularly in the Trump era. These groups deserve your help

Job seekers: Make diversity in tech work for you

A Q&A with Alex Kassirer of Flashpoint covers diversity from the employee's perspective

This holiday, design your cloud for data

The challenge for online retailers is meeting consumer demands and battling intensifying competition. Cloud technology can help.

What can data visualization learn from punks?

How a punk ethic to data journalism can lead to faster insight.

Build chatbots with Microsoft’s Bot Framework

Microsoft's Azure-based services are a good place to start with conversational computing, even outside Microsoft environments

How to manage and configure application pools in IIS

Application pools isolate applications even if they are running on the same server for better reliability, security and improved performance

How can Linux get 5 percent desktop market share?

Also in today’s open source roundup: 5 web browsers for Linux that you might not know, and 2 Linux Christmas carols

Emails, politics and common sense

Email technology played a crucial role in influencing the 2016 U.S. election.

Celebrate 2016’s mobile gems

Cool, useful innovations were few and far between last year, so these five mobile breakthroughs deserve extra credit

Your cloud strategy must include no-cloud options

Not all applications can move to the cloud, but they can still leave your datacenter

New features in C# 7

C# 7 focuses on better developer productivity and enhanced performance

Why the cloud? In 2016, it was the lure of the new

This year the cloud became not only the new normal, but also an irresistible ecosystem of the most exciting new enterprise tech

The cloud will demote the CIO in 2017

As the datacenter and IT systems move outside the CIO's grasp into the cloud, most CIOs will find their role diminished

The new mobile first: Why Offline First should be on every developer’s radar

The Offline First strategy means creating apps to work without internet access

Cloud compute: AWS, Azure, Google, SoftLayer compared

AWS still offers the greatest variety of instance types, but its top rivals have differentiating features of their own

9 signs you should quit your programming job

Here's how to tell when your coding job isn't all it's cracked up to be — and it's time to take off for a new gig

How Swift drives innovation on the cloud

Improved application quality and more collaborative development teams are just two of the benefits to leveraging Swift for front-end and back-end development in the enterprise

Windows 10 Creators Update steps up your security response

Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection will let you detect and remediate the breaches your first line of defenses can't stop

Curiosity and chaos: A Unix newbie’s journey

A newbie is off to a grand start in the tech world, until an innocent mistake brings down the house

More guidelines and best practices on asynchronous programming

Follow the recommended practices when working with asynchronous programming to achieve scalability and performance benefits

Smart products, dumb designers

While focusing on minimalism and "doing less" is a great way to make users love your product, being your product’s primary and daily user is a sure way to reduce customer churn

How to handle the politics of cloud resistance

In a cloud migration, technology is your friend — but your colleagues tend to be your enemy

Unlock the cloud’s full value: Make devops mandatory

Don’t delay, and don’t let empire-builders stand in the way of adopting devops

Software development trends for 2017: It’s all about the customer experience

In 2017, companies will use smart apps, chatbots, PaaS, and predictive analytics to improve and personalize the customer experience

Glue, stitch, cobble: Weighing DIY container management

Before you piece together your own container management system, examine the ‘glue levels’ of effort

China didn’t steal your job—I did

It's all us techies' fault in creating robots and machine intelligence that can do a better job than even the best-trained workers

Ubuntu Core has the keys to IoT security

Securing IoT devices requires vigilance. That's where Ubuntu Core comes in

Serverless: The next step in cloud computing’s evolution

Expectations are high and steadily growing for how this new architecture can revolutionize the way organizations approach development and innovation

Got pliers? IT ninja attempts delicate operation

It never hurts to be a jack-of-all-trades in IT, but you can't plan for some job skills

How well does the Linux kernel support Mac hardware?

Also in today’s open source roundup: How to install Linux on a Mac, and is it worth it to install Linux on a MacBook?

The cloud storage security gap — and how to close it

Cloud storage vendors don't provide a comfortable balance for some IT admins, but third-party options get you part way there