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The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Dean Wampler on streaming data applications, Scala and Spark, and cloud computing.

Ken Gardner looks at the latest innovations in performance analytics and how data science can be used in surprising ways to visualize and prioritize improvements.

Even though web pages might be built from APIs, they are not the same. There’s a tendency, particularly for networkers, to classify applications by the protocols they use. If it uses HTTP, it must be a web app. The thing is that HTTP has become...

The industrialization of the internet is driven by the relentless pursuit of productivity advantages, not quality improvements.

Can small tribes of cooperating smart cars improve overall traffic even if they are not in t...

It’s elastic! It’s on-demand! It scales dynamically to meet your needs! It streamlines your operations, gives you persistent access to data, and it’s

What is good for the simulation and the machine learning is, as it turns out, also good for the database. The performance and thermal limits of

“Free speech in the age of the Internet is not really free,” journalist warns.

The easiest thing in the world is to blame others when things go wrong. Analyzing every misstep, pointing out every flaw. There’s value to such analysis, but it’s incomplete. To round the circle, y…

BCC (BPF Compiler Collection) is a powerful set of dynamic tracing tools for monitoring Linux performance, networking, kernel tracing and more with several useful tools.

Clintonworld lives in one century and the rest of us in another.

D10D3 built this “cyberdeck” on a C64c (a modern recreation of the Commmodore 64) with a Raspberry Pi CPU, VGA port, and all the I/O you could ask for (USB/Bluetooth/wifi/Ethernet).

This custom PC is too small to be a desktop, but too big for a laptop. It’s a unique portable build, something out of an 80s cyberpunk world. And that’s what actually inspired its builder Chimerus: portable cyberdecks from Shadowrun.

Amidst the clutter of infrastructural odds and ends in cities, it is easy to overlook this type of ubiquitous little box attached to the outside of large buildings. When disaster strikes, however, these urban safes can go from unnoticed to essential in an instant. And now that you know about them, you will start noticing them everywhere you look.

Project Proposal Draft / RFC For my independent study, I must design a distributed application which uses the design patterns from the s...

The microservice architectural style is taking the world by storm. Last March, O'Reilly hosted their first Software Architecture Conference, and a huge percentage of the abstracts the program committee received touched on some aspect of microservices. Why is this architectural style suddenly all the rage?

Coding is seen as fun and glamorous, but that’s a sales pitch. In reality, it’s complicated, both technically and ethically

"You have to pay extra for double-stuffed," cable company Mediacom tells FCC.

The En-Gedi scroll was a lump of crumbling coal for over 1,700 years, but a new technique "unwrapped" it.

Should the FBI be able to access any communication? And will quantum cryptography break all of security?

New research provides more clues about the age of the world's most popular book.

On the eve of the Stuxnet attacks, half a decade ago, I found myself discussing what it all meant with William Gibson (I’d just interviewed him on stage in London), and I said, “I think…

John Sifton is the Asia Advocacy Director at Human Rights Watch. He has previously served as a researcher and as Acting Deputy Washington Director. He focuses on South and Southeast Asia, East Asia, the Middle East, and terrorism and counter-terrorism issues worldwide.

[Image: The Barakka Lift, Malta, by Architecture Project; Instagram by BLDGBLOG]. While in Malta last week, I stumbled on the Barakka Lift outdoor elevator, a project I’d written about here but had…

In this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, we dive into pluggable architectures and how projects, such as Cisco's Mantl, are helping developers and organizations create a la carte open source computing stacks. For this edition, Ken Owens, Cisco's chief technology officer of cloud native platforms and services, spoke about these matters with Lee Calcote, senior director…

Amid all the talk about serverless computing and programming on the network edge, San Francisco-based PubNub is making both a reality. PubNub's JavaScript-based API enables developers to add real-time communications to their apps, whether it be real-time chat, a multi-player game or remotely-controlled Internet-of-Things devices. Using the company's global data stream network (DSN), PubNub Blocks allows developers to…

Learn about the costs, motivations, and requirements for making your software open source.