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Linux at 25: Happy Birthday to Open Source’s First Major Success

By Dick Weisinger

In 1991, Linus Torvalds wrote: “I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones… It is NOT portable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks,…

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…