Matt Asay

For those that haven’t been paying attention, 2018 is the year of open source. This may seem to be a…

Each of the big three cloud providers—Amazon, Microsoft, and Google—recently announced earnings, with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure…

MongoDB’s shift away from the Affero GPL to its homegrown Server-Side Public License (SSPL) can be cast as a way…

Microsoft is perhaps the most impressive company on the planet right now. While it doesn’t (currently) dominate markets like it…

We’re awash in increasingly sophisticated machine learning technologies. Too bad so few people know how to use them. As recent…

For most companies, multicloud and hybrid cloud environments aren’t a choice. They’re just what happens as those companies evolve. So…

Money can’t buy you happiness, but developers just might. According to a new survey from Stripe, companies finally recognize that…

MariaDB never should have happened. Monty Widenius, the founder of both MySQL and MariaDB, made a bundle selling MySQL to…

When your job is to provide the cloud infrastructure to run analytics and workloads across three that are more than…

Big data remains a game for the 1 percent. Or the 15 percent, as new O’Reilly survey data suggests. According…

If any company had a reason to dump Oracle, it’s Amazon. And yet, 14 years after Amazon lamented its “straining…

In the old world, the operating system was the center of the computing universe. In today’s modern application age, container…

The cloud was supposed to kill open source. Instead, savvy cloud operators appear to be using open source as an…

Open source has never been more popular, but it’s unclear that this has as much to do with its licensing…

The cloud may rapidly be moving into serverless computing, but winning the cloud competition requires lots (and lots) of servers.…