Scott Carey - Author - Channel Asia

Devs don’t want to do ops

Developers are straining under the demands of ‘you build it, you run it,’ and operators are feeling more pressure too. Is it time to separate both?

How Cloudflare emerged to take on AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud

The upstart internet security and edge infrastructure vendor has reinvented itself to challenge the hyperscale cloud providers. Can it succeed?

Netflix to launch ad-supported tier with Microsoft in 2023

The streaming giant lost less subscribers than expected during the second quarter of 2022, and hopes that a new ad-supported tier will boost growth.

Lego embraces modularity, metaverse with its software engineering culture

Lego, the plastic brick maker, is rapidly growing its software development teams to meet the growing demand for virtual experiences.

Developers value flexibility, tech stack in a hybrid working world

Most developers are working remotely and favour a flexible working environment where they can use their favourite technologies.

Why Mercedes-Benz runs on 900 Kubernetes clusters

The German automaker runs a massive fleet of Kubernetes clusters to support a wide range of project teams around the world.

Salesforce to slow hiring and M&A activity after posting strong Q1 results

Salesforce started the financial year well but will slow down hiring and M&A activity, as technology companies continue to get hit hard by the stock market.

Google Cloud gets serious about Gitops

The cloud vendor is putting its weight behind Gitops as a better way to manage and control configurations across fast-growing Kubernetes environments.

Google Firebase expands Extensions to become more customisable

Google is extending its Firebase software development platform to allow developers to customise pre-built code extensions themselves.

Docker Desktop comes to Linux, adds extensions SDK

Docker Extensions allow Docker Desktop to integrate with a range of partner tools for software supply chain security, CI/CD and Kubernetes deployment.

Cloudflare offering promises a more programmable web

Cloudflare for Platforms provides a set of tools and an API standard that would allow developers to customise any web application.

Developer experience doesn’t have to stop at the front-end

Back-end developers need simpler provisioning and management of infrastructure to truly enable simple, repeatable environment builds. Help is on the way.

AWS can’t help Amazon avoid first loss since 2015

Despite Amazon Web Services going from strength to strength, the retail giant suffered its first quarterly loss since 2015 to start the financial year.

Google Cloud props up a slow start to the year for Alphabet

Search and cloud were bright spots in what were relatively weak results to start the year for the Google parent Alphabet.

Google Cloud to donate Istio service mesh to Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Google Cloud has submitted its open source service mesh tech Istio for donation to the vendor-neutral Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

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