Google spent nearly $2.65 billion on infrastructure in the second quarter, upping its year-over-year investment by $1 billion and more than tripling the amount it spent in the second quarter of 2012. 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 this weeks Structure Show podcast, Barb Darrow, Stacey Higginbotham and I talk about which speaker and topics have us mosted excited about this weeks Structure conference. Needless to say, theres… Read more »
Inspired by Google’s famous approach to resource management, Apache Mesos is the open source software that manages the large pools of servers and cloud instances at companies such as Twitter and… Read more »
On this week’s Structure Show, we discussed how VMware handles automation both for its customers and in its own cloud, and how a startup called Mesosphere wants to turn parts of… Read more »
Large web companies such as Facebook, Google and Amazon have been pushing the boundaries of IT for years, and now their problems — and solutions — are making their ways into… Read more »
Twitter recently detailed its Manhattan database that’s supposed to be the default system for most new applications within the company. Here, the engineers behind Manhattan explain why they built it like… 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 »
Apache Mesos is the open source cluster-management software that automates operations at companies such as Twitter and Airbnb. Now, a startup called Mesosphere is building a business around taking it mainstream. Read more »