Building on another’s cloud? An early AWS engineer insists you’ve got to roll your own.
Why The Wearables Developer Market Population Is Taking A Plunge
Waiting for the market for strappy gadgets to mature.
Amazon’s Cloud Business Is Worth At Least $70 Billion
AWS is on a tear, and it’s ripping up legacy tech vendors.
Why The Legacy Carmakers Can’t Beat Tesla Or Apple
We don’t want to drive a car. We want to drive a computer.
Amazon To Everyone: You’re Toast
AWS is taking on stodgy old business tech with the cloud.
Open Source: Billions Upon Billions Of Free
Sure, it would cost a lot to pay to build Linux or Hadoop. That’s not the point.
React May Have Just Ended The Native Vs. Web Debate
React Native changed one iOS developer’s mind about web development. Will it change yours?
Apple Music Is A Pandora’s Box: Open At Your Own Risk
Apple Music has profound promise, yet struggles on UX and sync.
How Good Developers Deal With Bad Code
The boring work of testing is critical.
Apple’s Scorched-Earth Advertising Play Could Lobotomize Google
Content blocking is bad news for the search giant.
The Best Shot At Success For Indie Developers: Go Work For “The Man”
If you can’t beat them—and you can’t—then join them.
Rust Never Sleeps: How Mozilla Could Become Cool Again
Mozilla has almost faded from memory, but Rust could make it hip again.
You’re Using PhoneGap For All The Wrong Reasons
Cross-platform tools are popular with developers because they’re convenient. That’s not good enough.
Without More Data, Your Mobile Strategy Is Toast
The key to mobile success: knowing what users do and what they value.
What Makes Tesla, Apple, and Amazon Different
Unwillingness to compromise on the future.
Big Data Depends On Big Community, Not Big Money
Oracle is increasingly irrelevant to projects like Apache Spark.
Funding The Web With Ads: This Outdated Model Has To Go
Ads may be the easiest way to fund the Web, but it’s not the best.
Your Business Really, Really, Really Needs Two-Factor Authentication
Really. It’s critical—and stop thinking it’s too hard.
SQL Is Alive And Well
In fact, it may be the future of big data.
There Are No More Easy Answers In Mobile App Development
That’s a good thing.