3scale Revamps Products, Goes Free and Jumps on a Bandwagon
A raft of product announcements coming through today from API enablement vendor 3scale. Some cosmetic, some pricing related and some all about improving adoption. All together they make a complete end-to-end API platform that can scale alongside growing organization. So what’s new in the release? 3scale Free Plan 3scale have
Torbit Delivers Insights into Website Speed
We’ve long known that small incremental improvements in website speed pay dividends in terms of higher conversion rates. Traditionally however there has been something of a disconnect with website performance vendors focusing closely on developing improved speed functionality on the one hand, and website owners unsure of what (if any) speed issues they face on [...]
FeedHenry Powers Mobile Application on Cloud Foundry
In researching a development whitepaper that I’m soon to publish, I’ve been struck by how development is now a strongly bifurcated role – there is a segmentation of needs and skills between those building for the backend – who need to think about scale, DevOps and stability, and those building for the frontend who worry [...]
OSCON: The Web, It’s HUGE! Cloud Computing More Realistically…
It is day 3 of OSCON data & java, and the kick off to the main keynotes and core conference. There are a repeating topics throughout the conference: The Web, It’s Still HUGE! Imagine that! HTML 5, CSS3, JavaScript/jQuery/Node.js – This is starting to look like it will be the development stack of the web. [...]
The Good Parts, Patterns, and a Cookbook of Javascript
I’ve been asked recently about some books to learn/get updated on/figure out this new found JavaScript craze, so here’s my first three suggestions… JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford I started reading JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford a few months back. I’ve been slowly making my way through the book and wanted [...]
Big News on Day #3 of OS Bridge
Microsoft announced today that they’ll be supporting an effort to get Node.js working on Windows. Mary Foley picked it up quick, but also so did Node creator Ryan Dhal. This, being the explosion of support for Node.js, is excellent news. This further enables JavaScript for the whole stack, on any operating system stack. Getting a [...]
OS Bridge Conference Day #2
First a quick catch up on the afternoon and evening activities from day #1. Linuxcon in Vancouver, British Columbia! I discovered that Linuxcon will be in Vancouver this year. Linus will be coming to keynote with another 10 keynote sessions following that. To top all that off, it will be the 20th anniversary for Linux! [...]
