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Free beer! Now Amazon has cloud developers' attention
You know the hunt for developers is getting tough when free beer enters the equation. Amazon.com will reopen a "pop-up loft" in downtown San Francisco this fall to give developers a place to learn more about Amazon Web Services.
Docker founder Solomon Hykes explains Docker
Solomon Hykes is pretty sure you only know two things about Docker: First, it uses Linux containers, and second, the Internet won't shut up about it. In the video below, Hykes gives a talk at LinuxCon to explain exactly what Docker is and the philosophy behind it.
Review: RHEL 7 anchors enterprise-focused ecosystem
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 is more proof that operating systems aren't dead, they're becoming vessels for containerized applications. RHEL 7 performed well in our testing, but it's worth noting that this no longer just a simple OS it's an increasingly abstracted component in the larger Red Hat ecosystem.
Although Red Hat took a long time between the RHEL 6 and 7 releases, during that period they've been sending numerous updates poised towards stable infrastructure.
New Windows coming in late September -- but which one?
It looks like we're due for a preview of Windows sometime in late September.
The worst cloud outages of 2014 (so far)
Choose your side on the Linux divide
Last week I posted about the schism brewing over systemd and the curiously fast adoption of this massive change to many Linux distributions.
The beginner's guide to Docker
Docker has revolutionized application virtualization. This open source project enables users to package any application in a lightweight, portable container so that installing a server-side Linux app almost as easy as installing a mobile app -- from the command line, no less. Docker has caught on in record time, garnering support from Red Hat, Google, Microsoft, and more shortly after it burst onto the scene.
In this Deep Dive, InfoWorld offers a dose of Docker wisdom:
JXCore's new trick: Convert Node.js projects into self-running apps
JXCore, a fork of Node.js, garnered attention for the intriguing way it boosts Node performance by adding a novel multithreading mech
Our 10 favorite techie Simpsons episodes and moments
Software testers balk at ISO 29119 standards proposal
Efforts by the ISO (International Organization for Standardization) to standardize software testing are receiving some pushback, with an online petition launched to stop the plan.
Why developers should get excited about Java 9
With work moving forward on the next edition of standard Java, developers can start looking forward to what they will get with the planned upgrade.
So long, iOS -- jailbreakers have found their home: Android
This week, another virus was reported infecting jailbroken iPhones. Honestly, if you jailbreak your iPhone or iPad, you deserve what you get as a result.
10 no-bull benefits of the Internet of things
Walmart's investment in open source isn't cheap
In a recent blog post, a senior developer at Walmart Labs explained that the company's embrace of open source costs big money.
Dark skies hang over midtier cloud providers
We now have three major cloud leaders: Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft. As the cloud market continues to mature, I predict that the runners-up will have an increasingly hard time keeping pace. Even if they are more innovative and creative, some aspects of being a cloud leader come down to the money you can spend -- and market leaders have more to spend.
How to survive the data explosion
IDC estimates that enterprise data doubles every 18 months. That's an astounding statistic, but somewhat difficult to wrap your head around. A simple analogy may help.
Republicans to FCC: Don't force municipal broadband on us
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Video: Meet the most connected man in the world
You're a pretty connected person, right? You have your smartphone stuffed full of apps that let you keep tabs on everything all the time. Maybe you have Google Glass. Perhaps you slap on a FitBit when it's time to exercise. You're fully plugged-in -- yet, you're still a very long way from Chris Dancy.
