Jean Yang is a Ph.D. candidate at MIT and the creator of a language called Jeeves that automatically manages privacy policy in software programs. In 2013, she presented on Jeeves at… Read more »
Byron Sebastian, the former CEO of Heroku who was most recently an executive vice president at Salesforce.com, is joining the board of directors at developer darling Codenvy. The company sells a cloud service, and… Read more »
Palantir has a customer base that pays for results, but the company nonetheless attributes puts a lot of effort into user experience. In June, it re-architected its database simplicity in mind;… Read more »
Docker is one of the most-popular technologies in computing right now, and Solomon Hykes is one of the people responsible for it. On our latest Structure Show podcast, he talks about… Read more »
On Thursday, Facebook announced via a post on its engineering page that it has revamped the Thrift framework it built in 2006 (which has since become an Apache project) and is… Read more »
Facebook has open sourced a new embedded database called RocksDB that’s meant to take advantage of all the performance flash has to offer, from right on the application server. It might… Read more »
Amazon Web Services’ second-annual user conference is around the corner, but its scale is as much about AWS’s platform as it is about the ecosystem of developers and applications it has… Read more »
Couchbase is officially opening up two new technologies to mobile developers as part of a public beta program. Couchbase Lite is a lightweight database designed specifically for iOS and Android devices,… Read more »
Google App Engine’s engineering director, Peter Magnusson, took to Google+ on Tuesday to dispute a lingering reputation the company is trying to lock in developers with its PaaS offering. Read more »
Heroku co-founder James Lindenbaum is launching a new effort focused on giving developer-focused startups the tools they need to scale. He has recruited some significant peers and investors as advisers to… Read more »