Software Development

Shutterstock’s first CIO to build API-driven data center

The stock photo companyu2019s new CIO finds himself in a familiar role: Leading a major data center transformation for a growing business.

Are you getting the full benefit of DevOps?

How to avoid DevOps friction.

Open source and saving the earth from asteroids

A student from the Holberton School was selected to participate in a NASA workshop that worked on mitigating threat of asteroid impacts.

Open source R extension simplifies data science with IBM Watson

Open source R extension is designed to help data scientists access a bevy of Watson services without leaving their native development environment.

Android, iOS bug bounty biz is booming

Hackers who identify and document proven critical software vulnerabilities in Android or iOS stand to cash in big time, thanks to new bug bounty increases from Apple, Google and at least one security firm.

Open vSwitch becomes a Linux Foundation Collaborative project

How open source makes the big data ecosystem richer

"The more big systems use Stacki, the more feedback we get from them, which makes the entire ecosystem richer. It benefits the entire community." says StackIQ co-founder Greg Bruno.

Hands-on: openSUSE Tumbleweed with Plasma on Dell XPS 13 (2016)

OpenSUSE and Plasma shine on this great hardware

10 reasons you should use LibreOffice and not Microsoft Word

If you've been considering moving away from Microsoft Word, here are some solid reasons why LibreOffice might be the right choice for you. rn

8 tips to get more bang for your big data convergence bucks

CIOs can achieve cost savings and productivity gains from the convergence of development, IT ops and BI strategy.