In March 2016, my friend and I founded devRant - a fun community for devs to vent, share, and bond over how they really feel about code, tech, and life as a programmer.

While pretty much everyone has heard of SaaS (software as a service) and used it (Google Drive ringing a bell, anyone?) not as many people have heard of PaaS (platform as a service). However, PaaS’ growth in coming years is slated to blow away that of SaaS’ growth. Why? Hybrid Cloud is increasingly becoming the preferred method for IT organization in all industries and PaaS is best suited to help make that happen. Among PaaS’ unique benefits are reduced cost of entry and unprecedented cloud freedom. To learn more about PaaS and why you should get on board, check out this infographic from Morpheus Data.

  Load balancing can help boost the performance of your website and applications, as it allows more people to use your systems at the same time. Instead of all of the traffic going to a single destination, you can direct traffic to various machine

If you are looking forward to implementing the new HTTP2 protocol when you are able to, then you will need to consider a few things that will differ from any optimizations you are making to your web sites for the HTTP1.1 protocol. With HTTP2 in place and your users able to make use of it, your web site loading speed should be moderately to much improved!

  Platform as a Service, or PaaS, can be extremely helpful to you when it comes to developing and maintaining your applications. The question is - when should you consider using PaaS for your apps? As your company grows, the usefulness of PaaS will

It has always had trouble getting customers to buy into its cloud, but the scope of the problem may have been badly underestimated.

What’s the first product you think of when you think of Microsoft? Windows, right? People will still be thinking that for another generation, but it’s no longer true. Microsoft is becoming a cloud company.

AWS Client is an open source JavaFX GUI desktop application for Amazon EC2, providing monitoring and filtering controls over your EC2 server instances in different regions. It also allows you to easily interact with your instances via...

How a bug in Visual Studio 2015 exposed my source code on GitHub and cost me $6,500 in a few hours.

Amazon Web Services announced a new product today called Amazon API Gateway, designed to simplify creation and management of APIs. Today, many companies..

Testing an Android app can be a real headache with the ginormous number of different devices out there, and there are services that can help you do that kind of stuff remotely - for a fee.

The Zalando STUPS platform. Tools and applications to work with AWS.

Edward Snowden has thrown rocks at file storage service Dropbox on two occasions. The first time, the U.S. surveillance whistleblower called it "hostile to privacy." The second? He simply called on its users to "get rid" of it.

Data, in any form is most important to its owner, be it an individual or a MNC. Data is now increasingly being stored in multiple third party servers.