Remember Snort? Or Asterisk? Or Jaspersoft or Zimbra? Heck, you might still be using them. All of these open source champions—InfoWorld Best of Open Source Software Award winners 10 years ago—are stil..

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The question used to be, “What container orchestration platform are you using?” Now the question is, “So, how are you running Kubernetes?”..

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Nothing is bigger these days than data, data, data. We have more data than ever before, and we have more ways to store and anal..

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Smart contracts, decentralized apps, smaller frameworks, new approaches to numerical computing and low-level code—the software develo..

Network services pilot fish pays a visit to a client that has recently upgraded its gear — and isn't happy.
“We had moved everything into a server rack in the previous few months,” says fish. “T..

One of my favorite quotes is from Brian Kernighan, who wrote: “Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So, if you're as clever as you can be when y..

While a warming climate in recent decades may be a factor in the waning of some local populations of frogs, toads, newts and salamanders, it cannot explain the overall steep decline of amphibians, acc..

Results from new study suggest that the benefits of breastfeeding reported in the vast majority of prior research could be influenced by the mother's characteristics, such as what they know about..

Treating insomnia with digital programs can improve insomnia symptoms, daytime functioning and overall health, a new study has found. A major limitation of insomnia treatments is the lack of providers..

Food scientists have mapped and characterized microbial populations in a vegetable fermentation facility and report that its microbiome was distinct between production and fermentation areas and that ..