SSGFS: static site generator fatigue syndrome. It’s a thing, people. With five hundred plus SSGs roaming the wild these days — everything from Ace, written in Ruby, to Zodiac, written in awk and sh — SSG-related announcements likely generate a collective ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ amongst develop … | Continue reading
With over 2.2 billion users worldwide, Facebook may very well be the most widely-used software platform on the planet. YouTube or Google still might generate more traffic, though neither of those sites are nearly as personalized for each user as Facebook’s, making the social netw … | Continue reading
Atlassian is known for keeping software developers and operations people organized. Traditionally, the company has focused on the collaboration and information management tools that track bugs, customer complaints, documentation, and source code. But like any good software tools … | Continue reading
Can energy usage data tell us anything about the quality of our programming languages? Last year a team of six researchers in Portugal from three different universities decided to investigate this question, ultimately releasing a paper titled “Energy Efficiency Across Programming … | Continue reading
While the idea of cloud-native computing promises to change how modern IT operations work, the idea remains vague for many who work in the profession. “GitOps,” an idea that generated some buzz at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU conference in Copenhagen last week, could bring som … | Continue reading
Bloomberg recently noted that companies seeking early-stage investments face “a stubbornly analog process” — a vague mix that includes the intuitions and gut instincts of venture capitalists. But a venture capital firm named Social Capital wants to change that — by taking humans … | Continue reading
Walmart is the largest company in the world and the single largest employer, with 2.3 million workers serving 200 million customers every week. So it’s a big deal when they roll a blockchain initiative into production, especially one designed to offer a new solution to what may b … | Continue reading
When organizations talk about microservices, we talk about using microservices as a vehicle for building business-agile IT systems: systems that enable a business to more quickly change, build new functionality, experiment and stay ahead of disruptors and competition. The industr … | Continue reading
What happens when Silicon Valley investors fight an already-entrenched giant, throwing a vast amount of new resources, experience, and the power of the cloud — not to mention the best of intentions — into a quixotic quest to change the shape of the online world? We’re about to fi … | Continue reading