Software Development

Can Ansible be the automation platform for the enterprise? Red Hat thinks so

It's enticing to think a single tool can deal with the complexities of today's enterprise data center, but claims Ansible can do it are unrealistic

Quick guide to where AR stands today

Red Hat beefs up its OpenShift containerization platform

Red Hat is adding a hosted IDE, microservices foundations, and support for Amazon Web Services in hybrid clouds

Acer R11 Chromebook review—Average Chromebook, awesome emulation laptop

After installing the XFCE desktop environment, the Acer R11 Chromebook becomes a surprisingly usable Linux laptop—passable performance and good battery life

Red Hat kicks off annual Summit by leaning dev-wards

Red Hat and IBM raise objections to Java 9 modularization

Java Executive Committee participants worry modularization will have adverse effects on compatibility and could lead to two worlds of Java development

Star Wars Holochess can become a reality thanks to Vuforia and Tango

Vuforia Smart Terrain and Google's Tango platform development tools bring virtual content that interacts with objects and the environment

I’m excited for a new Ubuntu release—for the first time in a long time

I haven’t liked Ubuntu for a while, but it looks like Canonical and the Ubuntu community are returning to what made the Linux distribution great in the first place

Strategy first: How to do mobile dev right

Build platforms, back-end services, native vs. web—to launch the right mobile development strategy, you must make sense of several moving parts

Raspberry Pi roundup: Conduct your own symphony, play some Atari, and Competitor Corner