A Decade of Container Control at Google

Hacker News

Search engine giant Google did not invent software containers for operating systems, but it has helped perfect them for the Linux operating system and brought the orchestration of billions of containers across perhaps millions of servers to something of an…

27 March 2016

Amazon shows you how to make an Echo with Raspberry Pi

Engadget

If you're into messing with hardware and have some basic programming skills, you can put together an Amazon Alexa device of your very own. Amazon has even put together an official guide to do so on GitHub, Lifehacker reports. You'll need to snag a Ra...

25 March 2016

Google wants developers making crazy Android experiments

Engadget

Last year, Google launched a site promoting innovative Android experiments on phones, tablets and smartwatches. Anything was game, provided it ran on top of Android or Android Wear. Now, with less than two months to go before its next I/O developer c...

25 March 2016

Take a 360-degree video tour of Google's Oregon data center

Engadget

Google's latest 360-degree video provides a virtual tour of its data center in The Dalles, Oregon. We've seen glimpses of Google's server farms before, through Street View and other high-res photography, but this new upload offers a better sense of i...

24 March 2016

More developers are now using Mac OS X than Linux

Apple World Today

For the first time, more developers are using Mac OS X than Linux as their primary operating system, according to a survey of 56,033 coders in 173 countries by Stack Overflow (www.stackoverflow.com), a community of 4.7 million programmers.

18 March 2016

Real-time anomalies(outliers) detection system for periodic metrics

Hacker News

For example, a website api's response time is reported to banshee from statsd every 10 seconds: 20, 21, 21, 22, 23, 19, 18, 21, 22, 20, ..., 300 The latest 300 will be catched. It is strongly recommended to use statsd as banshee client. Clone this repo…

18 March 2016

Apple will power part of iCloud with Google Cloud Platform

Engadget

Google Cloud Platform has reportedly scored another major client after getting Spotify in February: Apple. Cupertino has struck a multi-million dollar deal with its staunchest rival to move part of iCloud and its other cloud-based offerings to GCP, a...

17 March 2016

Wire – modern, private messaging from Skype co-founder

Hacker News

Wire is built to scale to tens of millions of users, and with the right administrative tools. Ready for ISO, GDPR, and SOX. 100% open source, and independently audited — with an option to be tested against your existing security and governance frameworks.

13 March 2016