10 picky reasons to choose a cloud
How do you choose between one cloud of commodity machines and another? You have to get picky
Stories by Peter Wayner
10 software development cults to join
Because programming is more fun when we take things to the extreme and obsess about the ‘right way’ to write code
Serverless in the cloud: AWS vs. Google Cloud vs. Microsoft Azure
With AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and Microsoft Azure Functions, a little bit of business logic can go a very long way
MEAN vs. LAMP for the future of programming
LAMP diehards take note: The flexible simplicity of MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, and Node.js is no joke
9 cutting-edge programming languages worth learning now
These strong alternatives to the popular languages are gaining steam -- and may be the perfect fit for your next project
In Pictures: 10 prominent features 'stolen' by Apple’s Swift - and where they came from
Apple's new programming language modernizes iOS development by synthesizing great ideas invented elsewhere
In Pictures: 15 hot programming trends - and 15 going cold
Hot or not? From the Web to the motherboard to the training ground, get the scoop on what's in and what's out in app dev.
11 reasons encryption is (almost) dead
Massive leaps in computing power, hidden layers, hardware backdoors -- encrypting sensitive data from prying eyes is more precarious than ever
12 ethical dilemmas gnawing at developers today
The tech world has always been long on power and short on thinking about the ramifications of this power. If it can be built, there will always be someone who will build it without contemplating a safer, saner way of doing so, let alone whether the technology should even be built in the first place. The software gets written. Who cares where and how it's used? That's a task for somebody in some corner office.
In Pictures: 15 things we hate about Java
Slow startup times, null pointers, security flaws -- Java's ongoing success leaves plenty to complain about
12 predictions for the future of programming
If hitting a target is hard and hitting a moving target is even harder, then creating a new hit technology is next to impossible because the shape and nature of the target morphs as it moves. Think of building a swish new laptop just as laptops are heading out of favor, or a must-have mobile app just as smartphones plateau, or a dynamite tablet experience just as the wearable future takes hold.
Cloud services for mobile developers: Google vs. Amazon vs. Azure vs. Parse
Cloud-based back ends for mobile applications combine key services with varying degrees of complexity
15 hot programming trends - and 15 going cold
Programmers love to sneer at the world of fashion where trends blow through like breezes. Skirt lengths rise and fall, pigments come and go, ties get fatter, then thinner. But in the world of technology, rigor, science, math, and precision rule over fad.
In Pictures: 18 essential Hadoop tools for crunching big data
Making the most of this powerful MapReduce platform means mastering a vibrant ecosystem of quickly evolving code
10 reasons the browser is becoming the universal OS
A bazillion years ago in Internet time (aka 1995), Brendan Eich, Marc Andreessen, and the rest of Netscape looked at the World Wide Web and saw a sparsely tagged world of static documents -- a computational desert where a programmer's seed could find no purchase.