Microsoft unwraps panoply of previews for Azure services at Ignite
Microsoft capped off its Ignite conference this week with a rash of private and public preview announcements for its Azure platform.
Where to start? How...
AWS promises everyone their 15 minutes of….Lambda execution
AWS has extended the timeout limit for Lambda functions from 5 to 15 minutes, immediately setting developers the task of deciding what they’ll do...
MongoDB Creates New License To Protect It From Cloud Service Providers
MongoDB has had enough of cloud service providers offering the Community Edition of its database as a service to clients. Yesterday, it announced a...
GitHub’s latest actions? Struggling to fix massive outage
The world’s self-declared "leading software development platform" wasn’t this morning, as GitHub spluttered and died as developers in Asia were just starting their week...
Oracle Releases CNCF-Certified Linux
While Larry Ellison talked up Oracle's cloud services at the company's OpenWorld conference on Monday, the company quietly rolled out a curated set of...
Google puts up $25m to fund AI with a social conscience
Google is offering AI developers, and anyone else with a good idea, access to a $25m cash pool and help from the ads and...
VMware buys Heptio, sets course for cloud native
VMware has made a big bet on Kuberbnetes by swallowing Heptio, the two year old company started by two of the container orchestrator’s creators.
Heptio’s...
DataStax launches certified release of Apache Cassandra
DataStax has launched a certified, bare bones distribution of Apache Cassandra for those situations where you want to use the open source NoSQL database,...
‘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...
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...