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The idea of distributed, componentized applications goes back a long way. Most notoriously, it emerged in the form of the SOA (service-oriented architecture) trend that peaked eight yeas ago. Now, it’s back — as microservices architecture. …read more

Guiyu is known as the world’s largest e-waste site, but is trying to clean up its act Dek: Guiyu is known as the world’s largest e-waste site, but is trying to clean up its act External Source: …read more

The National Science Foundation has announced two $10 million projects to set up cloud computing test beds — Chameleon and CloudLab — that will support experimentation with new cloud architectures and cloud applications. Chameleon and CloudLab will be available for free to researchers. I suspect that many will take advantages of these freebies, perhaps more […]

These products stand out among the whozits and whatzits galore for their capability to improve business productivity and efficiency Dek: These products stand out among the whozits and whatzits galore for their capability to improve business productivity and efficiency …read more

CloudBees has decided to pull the plug on Run@Cloud, its PaaS aimed at enterprise Java developers. …read more

Credit: iStockphoto While everyone covets developers, not everyone gets them. Take a look across the industry — it’s littered with the corpses of would-be platforms that never caught on with developers. …read more

The Document Foundation’s tender for the development of an Android implementation of LibreOffice begs serious questions, namely: Can an influx of cash into open source code creation succeed, and how do pay-for-code plays from n …read more

Early this morning, two German-language blogs, Computerbase.de and …read more

Two new editions of OpenStack hint at how vendors are trying to bring in customers by alleviating OpenStack’s common pain points: installation, upgrades, and maintenance. …read more

We’re now in the second month of Microsoft’s new avowed “Update Tuesday” patching pr …read more