IAG Finds Open Source to Be the Best Insurance for the Future
The Insurance Australia Group (IAG) is one of the largest insurance companies in Australia and, naturally, it has a large IT footprint as well. There are over 147 core insurance systems running within...
View ArticleNetlify Offers a Git-Based (Yet Non-Techie Friendly) Content Management System
What if a content management system (CMS) did just one thing really well — like, you know, manage content? This is the question that Netlify co-founders Mathias Biilmann and Chris Bach asked themselves...
View ArticleWith OPNFV, Orange Plans a Full-Scale Rollout of Network Functions...
Jehanne Savi Jehanne Savi is currently leading two strategic programs for Orange worldwide aiming at the all-IP transformation of the services and networks, respectively. She is a board member of...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Times: How News Publishers Address Change in the Data Center
It is no secret that the newspaper industry in the United States continues to weather the storm of revenue declines. Last June, the Pew Research Center reported that weekday circulation for daily print...
View ArticleFossor Fuel: LinkedIn Open Sources New Tools for Automated Investigation of...
Being someday replaced by a robot in our jobs is something many of us fear these days. Steven Callister, on the other hand, is actively working to make that dreaded eventuality something of an actual...
View ArticleThe Capital One Serverless Architecture for Peer-to-Peer Payments
U.S. bank Capital One has introduced a serverless architecture to help manage its peer-to-peer payments system. In the United States, banks and the Visa/MasterCard network have collaborated to provide...
View ArticleTencent: Serving a Billion Users with OpenStack
OpenStack Summit Sydney brought us many unique use cases that continue to prove that OpenStack is mature, stable and continues to grow. Tencent, for example, one of China’s three leading tech companies...
View ArticleBeyondCorp: How Google Ditched VPNs for Remote Employee Access
Today, none of Google’s employee-facing applications are on a virtual private network. They all have public IP addresses. The company feels this approach, which it has dubbed BeyondCorp, is the “new...
View ArticleLearning To Rank: A Key Information Retrieval Tool for Machine Learning Search
Ranking isn’t just for search engines, or even enterprise search, although it’s routinely used by services like Airbnb, Etsy, Expedia, LinkedIn, Salesforce and Trulia to improve search results. The...
View Article6 Lessons from Bitnami’s Transition to Container-Based Ops
Containers may be getting smaller and smaller, but they are filled with lessons to learn. Adnan Adulhussein, software developer at Bitnami, shared with the crowd at a recent Docker London Meetup the...
View ArticleCan Yelp Data Predict Restaurant Closures?
The old joke about predictive analytics is that it is great at predicting the past. But one Princeton graduate student recently explored whether data science can really predict the future. Using...
View ArticleIt’s Go Time: Stream 2.0 Ditches the Pokey Python in Favor of the Faster GoLang
Ever stop to consider how your Twitter or Instagram feed populates, or how YouTube personalizes video recommendations just for you? It’s all in the feed. From the conspicuous — real-time interactive...
View ArticleMesosphere DC/OS and Google Cloud Platform Help Taxfyle Scale Up for Tax Season
Laura Kelso Laura Kelso is a marketing professional who specializes in communicating the value of enterprise software and developer tools. She currently leads corporate communications for Mesosphere...
View ArticleDear HQ Trivia, Here’s How to Prevent Outages Using Edge Computing
Chris Gaun Chris is a product marketing manager at Mesosphere and a CNCF Ambassador. He formerly worked as an analyst at Gartner covering public IaaS. Before that, he was a physicist that did...
View Article3 DevOps Insights from NIO, Maker of Self-Driving Cars and a Kubernetes Power...
Gou Rao, Portworx Gou Rao, Portworx co-founder and CTO, was previously CTO of Dell’s Data Protection division and of Citrix Systems’ ASG; co-founder and CTO of Ocarina Networks and of Net6; and a key...
View ArticleA Candid Assessment from The New York Times CTO with Serverless and the 1990s...
New York Times Chief Technology Officer Nick Rockwell is a believer in serverless technologies. He has been since the 1990s when he was using content delivery networks (CDN). In this interview for The...
View ArticleOptimizing Mobile Device Connectivity through Machine Learning
Laura Kelso Laura Kelso is a marketing professional who specializes in communicating the value of enterprise software and developer tools. She currently leads corporate communications for Mesosphere...
View ArticleChina Railway’s Private Cloud Infrastructure Provides a Roadbed for Business...
Building and managing the world’s largest railway network on the open sourced OpenStack suite of technologies is fundamentally changing the way China Railway thinks about its business, and, as lead...
View ArticleHow Cerner Leverages Concourse’s CI Platform for Regulated Environments
While other attendees at the SpringSource Platform conference in early December were there to hear about the promise of enterprise Java, more widely applicable talks were also on hand. One such talk...
View ArticleFitbit ❤️’s JerryScript: JavaScript Breaks into the Internet of Things
The recent release of the Fitbit Ionic marked Fitbit’s first true smartwatch. More significant to the JavaScript developer community, though, is the fact that the Ionic was produced and shipped using...
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