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Yearly Archives: 2016

Programming: Windows and Linux Lose Developers to Mac OS

By Dick Weisinger

A recent survey by Stack Overflow found that Mac OS is now the top desktop for software developers, although slightly more than half of all developers still use some version of Windows. Both GNU/Linux and Windows have been slowly losing ground…

Mobile: A Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Still Growing

By Dick Weisinger

Over the last ten years the mobile computing market has grown into a powerhouse. The market includes software, services and hardware like smartphones, tablets and portable PCs.  The global market size of mobile in 2016 is $1.5 trillion and IDC expects…

Chaos Engineering: A Proactive Approach to Probe the Limits of Software Systems

By Dick Weisinger

While most companies that design software focus on getting things right, few focus on how users can break what they’ve created.  Software businesses increasingly accept that even the best software has holes and they want to know how to uncover…

Microservices: The Ultimate Architecture or Distributed Pain?

By Dick Weisinger

30 percent of Java developers are already architecting systems based on microservices and another 20 percent are piloting microservices for ultimate deployment, according to a survey by Lightbend. What are some of the advantages of microservices? Scalability – In an application…

Enterprise Content Management (ECM): Gartner ECM Magic Quadrant 2016

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner recently released the 2016 ECM Magic Quadrant report.  Things are moving quickly in this space.  The report was released at the end of October but cut-off for the products considered was May 2016.  That means that the report does…