Danny Bradbury
Julia 101 – The upstart language with a lot to offer
If you could develop your own programming language from scratch, what would it look like? If you’re a C programmer, maybe you’d want something that was a...
S3? That’s so 2006. AWS deepens data infrastructure play
AWS has come a long way from the days of its simple S3 object store, with increasingly sophisticated services to make it an indispensable piece of your data infrastructure.
At...
Amazon gifts little VM cracker – Docker and K8s up to you
Amazon has unleashed Firecracker - tiny, lightweight virtual machine technology the cloud giant had built and deployed for its own Lambda and Fargate managed container service.
This microVM service lets...
AWS rolls out red carpet for robot builders
Amazon has tipped its hat to robotics developers, launching a robotics application development environment that lets people code, simulate and deploy software to control robots – on AWS.
AWS RoboMaker,...
Google nurtures Native-style web apps at Summit
Creating web apps that looked more like native apps was the presiding theme at Google's Chrome Dev Summit this week. The company made several announcements and demonstrated apps designed...
WG14 prepares for C Change
The C programming language nudged a little closer to its next version this week, with the publication of a proposed set of revisions to the standard. WG14, the committee...
Move fast, and test, test, test things
Mark Zuckerberg famously advised people to move fast and break things. It sounds good on paper, until you move so fast that one of your software bugs shares 14...
‘Fold the Phone’, says Google at Android Dev Summit
Google made a raft of announcements at its Android Dev Summit last week, including recommendations for the new generation of foldable phones that is just around the corner.
In a...
HashiCorp opens conference goody bag, upgrades Consul, Vault
Cloud infrastructure automation company HashiCorp flagged up a raft of new releases and features across its product lineup at its developer conference this week.
Among the unveilings were a preview...
Red Hat Certifies Linux for NVIDIA AI Boxes
Red Hat cozied up even further with NVIDIA yesterday, certifying its Enterprise Linux platform on the GPU vendor's DGX-1 machine learning boxes.
The announcement makes it easier for enterprises to...