Image credit Facebook Facebook announced today that its Messenger app has crossed the one billion user mark. WhatsApp—another messaging platform also owned by Facebook—crossed that threshold earlier this year. In spite of the apparent success of Messenger, though, there is […]
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Ten days and counting. If you haven’t yet taken advantage of the opportunity to upgrade to Windows 10 for free, that is all the time you have left. As I noted back in November of 2015—in my opinion it’s just
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The 2-in-1 hybrid laptop is the new standard. While there are still some tasks and functions that require the horsepower of a full-blown desktop PC, portability is a prime consideration today. Pure tablets, however, fall short in certain areas, which
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Microsoft unveiled some big news today at its Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Toronto. The Surface line of tablet hybrid computers will now be offered as a subscription service through Microsoft’s Cloud Solution Providers (CSPs). Surface-as-a-Service puts a whole new
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Testing is a crucial element of the development lifecycle. You can’t eliminate testing, but you also don’t want testing to be a bottleneck. Testing should be automated in a DevOps environment to streamline it as much as possible and ensure
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DevOps strives to streamline development and help companies be more agile. Specific or unique constraints of one platform or another, however, sometimes get in the way and paint developers into a corner. Habitat, a new project from Chef, seeks to
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One of the big stories to come out of DockerCon 16 was the announcement of Docker Engine 1.12. As efficient and effective as containers can be for developing and deploying applications, the sheer volume of containers can quickly grow to
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Do you know where your data is and who has access to it? I’m dating myself a bit, but the question reminds me of the parenting PSA commercials from the 80’s about “It’s 10pm. Do you know where your children
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Many companies have a hard enough time staying on the same page at the traditional, lethargic pace of business. In a DevOps environment–where everything seems to happen at once and projects are completed much more quickly–things can quickly spiral out
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This definitely falls on the geek side of the fence more than the tech side, but I’m OK with that. I love globes. I have a beautiful mother of pearl Earth globe on a table in the corner of my
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