- Full interview: Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield on Marketplace.org – Marketplace Tech Host Ben Johnson talked with Stewart Butterfield, the CEO and cofounder of Slack about how the workplace communication tool has changed as it's experienced precipitous growth, adoption by large workplaces, and a skyrocketing valuation.
- SAP’s Cloud for Analytics enters crowded field – SAP launches Cloud for Analytics in a bid to be the layer that analyzes data stored around the enterprise.
- The Web Authentication Arms Race – A Tale of Two Security Experts – Web authentication systems have evolved over the past ten years to counter a growing variety of threats. This post will present a fictional arms race between a web application developer and an attacker, showing how different threats can be countered with t
- From On-Premise to Cloud, Monolithic to Microservices, ETL to Spark Streaming, EMC/NetApp to AWS / OpenStack, and VMs to VMs + Containers – From On-Premise to Cloud, Monolithic to Microservices, ETL to Spark Streaming, EMC/NetApp to AWS / OpenStack, and VMs to VMs + Containers
- Innovate or Die: The Rise of Microservices – Software has emerged as the critical differentiator in every industry, from financial services to fashion, as “technology first” startups disrupt global markets. To stay alive, some of the biggest global enterprises we know are making a radical change in how they build and deliver software. The new model is called microservices, an approach where large applications are broken down into small, loosely coupled and composable autonomous pieces.
- When Schools Overlook Introverts: Why Quiet Time is Important for the Learning Process – As the focus on group work and collaboration increases, classrooms are neglecting the needs of students who work better in quiet settings.
- Werner’s Six Laws of Architecture #reInvent – Werner Vogels started his keynote today talking at length about Cloud Architecture, announcing a new architecture whitepaper called the AWS Well-Architected Framework, and then expanded on the Six Laws of Architecture he observes in cloud applications
- AWS re:Invent 2015 – Keynote Summary – The annual flurry of announcements by Andy Jassy in Las Vegas provided the expected amount of excitement and disappointment (depending on whether you still had a business model at the end of it)
- Google unveiled its new plan to speed up the mobile web today — Accelerated Mobile Pages, or AMP – Google unveiled its new plan to speed up the mobile web today — Accelerated Mobile Pages, or AMP — and it’s the latest attempt by a technology company to deal with the problem of the slow mobile web
- AWS WAF – a web application firewall that helps protect your web applications from common web exploits – AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect your web applications from common web exploits that could affect application availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources