- Critical Thinking: A Necessary Skill in the Age of Spin – The ability to think critically is one skill separating innovators from followers. Critical thinking reduces the power of advertisers, the unscrupulous and the pretentious, and can neutralize the sway of an unsupported argument. This is a skill most studen
- How We Moved From Heroku To Containers With No Docker Experience – Now that we’ve containerized our Ruby application stack, we’re no longer bound to a specific cloud provider or PaaS solution. Since DCHQ integrates with 13 different cloud providers, we can easily deploy the same template on any Linux host running anywhere.
- Our take on native, shell and mobile web apps #mobile – we will try to map out some of the major differences between building web, shell and native apps.
- Sony employees on the hack, one year later. – What it was like to be a rank-and-file Sony employee as the unprecedented cyberattack tore the company apart.
- One Googler’s War Against JavaScript Frameworks – ReadWrite – Using a framework is probably a good idea, but it’s an even better idea for developers to ensure they’re savvy about what the frameworks are trying to abstract.
- New Docker tool removes a big barrier for enterprises | CIO – Aiming to give companies operational control while maintaining developers' productivity, Docker Universal Control Plane runs on-premises and is designed to help deploy and manage Dockerized distributed applications in production on any infrastructure.
- JAWS: The Serverless Application Framework – Uses bleeding-edge AWS services to redefine how to build massively scalable apps! – JAWS: The Serverless Application Framework – Uses bleeding-edge AWS services to redefine how to build massively scalable (and cheap) apps!
- Dance to Calypso – WordPress reimagined #reactjs #nodejs – Today we’re announcing something brand new, a new approach to WordPress, and open sourcing the code behind it. The project, codenamed Calypso, is the culmination of more than 20 months of work
- Electron – Build cross platform desktop apps with web technologies – With Electron, creating a desktop application for your company or idea is easy. Initially developed for GitHub's Atom editor, Electron has since been used to create applications by companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Slack, and Docker.
- Now Available – EC2 Dedicated Hosts #aws – Last month, I announced that we would soon be making EC2 Dedicated Hosts available. As I wrote at the time, this model allows you to control the mapping of EC2 instances to the underlying physical servers.
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