Software Development

Datadog fills the coffers, because modern monitoring is…different

Datadog's core thesis is that monitoring for modern applications is fundamentally different from what has been done before. It would appear that Datadog's funders agree.

Shakeup at Citrix continues: CloudStack products sold off

Move comes months after selling off GoToMeeting business

When Novell tapped David Bowie’s ch-ch-changes for an ad campaign

Intelligence agency wants computer scientists to develop brain-like computers

Coding, asynchronous computing, messaging all part of IARPA brain/computer research

How tech giants spread open source programming love

Industry giants like Google, Facebook and Ericsson have already solved many of the large-scale problems that smaller companies are now facing.

NSF puts $30M behind software bug killing, synthetic biology & computational sustainability

Boston University, Cornell and Princeton lead the way on these National Science Foundation funded efforts

5 ways to beef up your indie dev business

Independent development shops can bank on bigger prospects with our guide to bolstering the bottom line

Automating email alerts on Unix systems

Cutting traffic delays by making cars “talk” to each other

A team develops a system to have cars communicate with each other to combat growing road congestion while also needing less user data.

Open source community mourns death of Debian creator Ian Murdock at age 42