Opinion

Is Debian the gold standard for Linux security?

Also in today's open source roundup: DistroWatch reviews Apricity OS 07.2016, and 10 big improvements in Android 7.0 Nougat

Data science predicts election winner!

Statistical predictions are fragile flowers. They can inspire confidence, but often only under specific, ephemeral circumstances

Keep the faith: A vote for voting systems

Rising fear about Russian hacks of US voting systems could do as much damage as actual breaches, but only if we let it

Reality check: Cloud growth projections don’t add up

451 Research paints a rosy but unrealistic picture of cloud migration, despite all the recent momentum

The top 11 productivity tips for coding engineers

Being a productive programmer brings tons of pluses, including higher pay, office benefits, increased popularity among peers, and internal satisfaction

Design patterns that I often avoid: Repository pattern

Learn the potential pitfalls of using the repository pattern, including adding an extra layer of abstraction when it's not needed in your software designs

Is there a financial data scientist drought?

Financial organizations will depend on financial data scientists to design, create, and maintain algorithms, but there's a lack of training and education offered in order to fulfill this role

Artificial intelligence: Not the job-killer you fear

Dire predictions about artificial intelligence eliminating working-class jobs tend to come from people who don't understand what those workers do

Google’s infrastructure for everyone else

While we're better off building our next-gen infrastructure based on containers, do we all need to build and manage like Google?

Why Microsoft’s Edge browser is missing its edge

More than a year after its introduction, Edge remains underwhelming and a very much a work in progress

Don’t trust your cloud service until you’ve read the terms

Customers shouldn't just click "Accept" when presented with a license or terms of service agreement.

Too many cooks whip up a networking mess

Cheap bosses and bad decisions add up to a networking disaster, and one tech pro has to undo the damage

How to answer the top three objections to a data lake

There is usually a set of stakeholders out there who are unfamiliar with Hadoop or the concept of a data lake or perhaps just not interested in changing the status quo of their organizations

Cloud Native Ambassadors and Docker Captains navigate users through the container ecosystem

Warning: iOS 10 makes email harder to use

Changes meant to be helpful instead get in users' way, especially on the iPhone

Linus Torvalds credits GPL with preventing Linux fragmentation

Also in today's open source roundup: DistroWatch reviews Korora 24, and games that never made it to SteamOS and Linux

Technology never dies

Developers chase after the newest languages and frameworks, but keep in mind that "ancient" technology tends to stick around for a long time

When Apple and Samsung fight, everyone wins

Both Samsung and Apple are victors, maintaining a strong focus now on quality while keeping an eye on what may be next

Adapt or die: 3 imperatives for cloud projects

Migrating to the cloud is still new territory, so you have to adapt as you blaze the trail

The 8 fallacies of distributed computing are becoming irrelevant

Thanks to modern computing, the 8 fallacies of distributed computing are being rendered obsolete

Lessons from launching billions of Docker containers

Docker brings consistency and repeatability to large and fast-moving environments, but not without challenges

Working with the Unity Application Block

Unity Application Block, a lightweight dependency injection container, can build loosely coupled applications that are extensible and easier to test and maintain

Beyond the console: 3 supplements for Office 365 admins

There are times you need to use a different tool to manage Office 365. Here are three you should know

A little help here! Execs ignore overworked tech team

When a crucial department at a growing company is starved of resources, employee stress and sickness mount

The top 5 Java 8 features for developers

The release has been seen as a huge step toward making Java better, thanks to these upgrades in particular

Microsoft’s pivot and the importance of Windows containers

We explore the implications for enterprise IT and business decision-makers, and recommend practical steps to position your organization for a cross-platform Microsoft strategy

Beacons take baby steps into businesses

Intriguing notions are emerging on how to use the simple Bluetooth location devices for smarter work processes

Devops and cloud: Great together, great apart

Devops and cloud computing go together like chocolate and peanut butter, but you can have one without the other

Developing enterprise bots

Better language parsing and analytics, machine learning, and easy integration with cloud-based apps and search engines makes it easier to develop effective bots

Microservice tracing: Root cause performance issues in clusters and distributed platforms

As we move to distributed clusters and the benefits of microservice-based cloud applications, there are new challenges to overcome

Data is useless

Data stories, on the other hand, are very important, as most businesses are now drowning in data, but still haven’t learned how to swim

For real this time? Oracle, VMware talk up the cloud

Sure, AWS has a huge lead, but how many enterprise workloads does it run? Oracle and VMware tout hybrid schemes to capture them

Working with thread safe collections: ConcurrentStack and ConcurrentQueue

The ConcurrentStack and ConcurrentQueue classes, lock-free and thread-safe implementations of the Stack and Queue classes, build thread safe collections in .Net

Don’t bring your bad security habits to the cloud

Not enough enterprises are using their cloud migrations to finally bring their data security up to snuff

Machine learning: Clustering and classification on the campaign trail

Discovering and targeting micropopulations for politics and profit

How many clouds are there?

When should you take advantage of a multi-cloud system, and when should you harden the single-cloud system you already use?

Tame microservices complexity with APIs

APIs not only bridge the gap between microservices and traditional systems, they make microservices easier to build and manage

The catch-22 with Apple security

A long, rocky relationship with Apple products and tech support culminates with a tangled up Apple ID — and a yearning for Linux

Design patterns that I often avoid: Singleton

Learn the drawbacks of using the Singleton design pattern, one of the most widely used design patterns, and the alternatives to avoid its potential pitfalls

Linux breathes new life into old Mac computers

Also in today's open source roundup: 8 Linux file managers to try, and Pokemon GO has lost millions of players

The other Office 365 is available for your school

For collaborative classroom use by teachers and students, Microsoft has a special edition of Office 365

The tough post-PC future for Intel, Dell, and HP

The former Wintel giants have been piloting from the rearview mirror, but one may still have a chance to chart its own resurrection

Know when your big data is telling big lies

Data scientists face an existential dilemma every single day: How do you distinguish signal from noisy illusion?

What Goldilocks can teach us about cloud migration

Too big, too small, just right — the same criteria can help you decide the size of your cloud push

Why did Gentoo Linux fade into obscurity?

Also in today's open source roundup: DistroWatch reviews the Gentoo Linux live DVD "Choice Edition," and Google will kill Chrome apps for Linux

Dev and test: Gateway drug to the cloud

Anyone who minimizes the importance of dev and test in the cloud — and asserts 'real production workloads' belong on premises — is trying to sell you hardware

Linux at 25: An ecosystem, not only an OS

InfoWorld celebrates the 25th birthday of Linux — and the new generation of open source projects Linux enabled

My two cents on Deep copy vs Shallow copy in .Net

Learn how deep copy and shallow copy can be used to create a clone of an object in .Net

Where are your users learning about the birds and the bees of cloud?

Where did you learn about the birds and bees? From your adolescent peers? How did that work out for accuracy? The same is true today for users learning about the cloud. You’re the CIO, shouldn’t they be learning it from you?

The second cloud wave is upon us, ready or not

Enterprise cloud workloads should hit the 10 percent mark in 2018, and we'll need new management and governance tools to make it all work