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Want to API Enable Your COBOL Applications? Have At It

October 18, 2013

Business

COBOL, Commercial Products and Services, Data management, IBM, Languages, Netflix, Programming, SQL

So, the thinking goes like this. A multitude of critical systems are still running on old hardware, written in old languages and sitting on old stacks. Despite the unicorns and rainbows protestations of many, that isn’t going to change…

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Puppet Labs Acqu-hires Cloudsmith

July 17, 2013

Business

cloud computing, Company, Geppetto, Information technology management, Integrated development environment, Programming, puppet, Puppet Labs

In another good example of a rollup of IT management companies, Puppet Labs is today announcing that they have acquired development tool vendor Cloudsmith. Cloudsmith is best known for its Stack Hammer product, a web service that lets developers…

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Sauce Labs Launches Enterprise Edition – Following the End-User to Central IT Attention Pivot

July 16, 2013

Business

GitHub, London, Open source, Programming, Sauce, Sauce Labs, Software Testing, Unit testing

Sauce Labs, is another in the long list of web and mobile application testing companies. It provides an automated test service that allows users to run functional and unit tests on applications – native, mobile web and desktop. Today…

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On the Ethic of Delivery – Required Watching

January 23, 2013

Business

Abhinav Keswani, Business, Defrag, Eric, Eric Norlin, Programming, Technology, trineo

Over the past few years I’ve been a kind of informal adviser to the Defrag event. The role is less than onerous, Eric Norlin totally understands what his participants (and at defrag, attendees really are participants and not simply…

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Continuuity Launches Big Data Application Fabric–Warning: Buzzwords Abound

October 23, 2012

Business

Application programming interface, Big data, cloudcomputing, Cloudfoundry, Continuuity, platform services, Programming, Software as a Service

Coming out of stealth today at Strata and Hadoop World is Continuuity, a company that is looking to position itself within the PaaS landscape as it gives organizations the ability to build, deploy and scale big data apps. All…

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3scale Revamps Products, Goes Free and Jumps on a Bandwagon

May 2, 2012

Business

API, Application programming interface, google, JavaScript, JSON, Programming, Representational State Transfer

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.…

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A Closer Look at Cloud-based Testing with SOASTA

July 29, 2011

Business

atlassian, Programming, SOASTA, Test automation, testing, Web testing

Cross posted from ReadWriteWeb One of the themes many of us commentators harp on about is the fact that barriers to entry for application developers have never been lower – the availability of cloud hosting, agile development methodologies, even this…

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Want to API Enable Your COBOL Applications? Have At It

Puppet Labs Acqu-hires Cloudsmith

Sauce Labs Launches Enterprise Edition – Following the End-User to Central IT Attention Pivot

On the Ethic of Delivery – Required Watching

Continuuity Launches Big Data Application Fabric–Warning: Buzzwords Abound

3scale Revamps Products, Goes Free and Jumps on a Bandwagon

A Closer Look at Cloud-based Testing with SOASTA