Solving game development bottlenecks with cloud computing
Friday, May 13, 2022 by Richard Harris
For years, baking lightmaps have been a necessary but time-consuming part of game development. Pre-calculating lighting information improves performance in-game, but consumes on-premises computing resources, tying up artists' workstations or valuable network machines for minutes, if not hours, at a time.
But now, thanks to the power of cloud computing, ...
Evolution of Infrastructure as a Service
Thursday, February 20, 2020 by Richard Harris
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) has changed the world. In the past, a company had to invest time and resources into building and operating its own servers. So much effort went into maintaining infrastructure, that little time remained for focusing on the company mission. IaaS changed all that. Today, a provider like AWS will build the server farm. A software company ...
Open Source expert Dee Kumar joins Armory
Thursday, August 15, 2019 by Richard Harris
After recently announcing a $28 million Series B funding round, Armory, the enterprise software company commercializing Spinnaker, is set to make another significant announcement next week: Dee Kumar, recognized as a leading cloud computing luminary, has joined Armory as vice president of open source and developer relations.
Here's why this matters: T...
Commercial vs open source for app monitoring
Wednesday, January 2, 2019 by Richard Harris
In 2019 you might already be asking yourself, "Should we go with open source or commercial monitoring for our growing cloud application?” This question is as old as open source software itself, but with the rapid growth of cloud-native applications (software that utilizes services and infrastructure provided by cloud providers like Amazon EC2, Azure, IBM...
New APM platform uses AI and runs on Amazon EMR
Monday, December 10, 2018 by Richard Harris
Unravel Data, the application performance management (APM) platform designed for big data workloads, has introduced a full-stack, artificial intelligence (AI)-driven solution for big data workloads running on Amazon EMR. Amazon EMR is a cloud service that enables big data processing using Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Impala, Hive, and other big data components across dynamical...
Open source IT automation solution from Red Hat gets an update
Wednesday, July 18, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Red Hat, Inc. announced the general availability of Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.6, the latest release of its agentless open source IT automation solution. Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.6 adds new content for automating across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, along with simplified connections to network APIs and updates for Ansible deployments overseeing Windows environments...
CloudPassage debuts Project Cielo
Monday, May 7, 2018 by Richard Harris
CloudPassage announced the beta release of its newest product built on the Halo platform, (code-name: Project Cielo), which offers complete visibility and insights into the resources in use across all cloud service providers (CSP) accounts and services within a single interface.Currently, CloudPassage's Halo platform, which includes Container Secure and Server Secure, i...
Puppet partners with Amazon Web Services for agile cloud migration
Wednesday, November 22, 2017 by Richard Harris
Puppet announced a new collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), which includes the launch of AWS OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise, a new, fully-managed Puppet Master. This new solution empowers customers with a complete automation strategy for operating at scale, while providing them with the agility and flexibility of the cloud.In order to successfully operate and s...
Red Hat CloudForms 4.2 released
Thursday, January 5, 2017 by Richard Harris
Red Hat announced the availability of CloudForms 4.2, the latest version of their open hybrid cloud management solution. The new solution helps IT teams increase service delivery and focus on critical, business-impacting issues by minimizing or outright eliminating the manual processes involved with rolling out new offerings.Red Hat CloudForms 4.2 offers:- Enhanced metr...
Replacing Scripted Software Deployments with a Jenkins Pipeline
Monday, July 18, 2016 by Franklin Ivey
When development begins on a new software project, it is often a popular choice to script many of the steps of the continuous integration (CI) process. As the project grows to require a more complex infrastructure, unit and end-to-end testing, and a robust, repeatable deployment procedure, simple scripts are no longer the best solution. To save a large hit on produ...
EdgeConneX Offers AWS Direct Connect for Portland Edge Data Center
Monday, May 2, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
EdgeConneX has announced the availability of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect in its Portland Edge Data Center. With AWS Direct Connect, companies in the Pacific Northwest can connect their IT infrastructure directly to Amazon Web Services, establishing a private connection to the cloud. The announcement marks the first metro offering for AWS Direct Connect in P...
AWS Releases Amazon Lumberyard and Amazon GameLift for Game Development
Monday, February 22, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
AWS has launched two new products for game developers, Amazon Lumberyard and Amazon GameLift.Amazon LumberyardAmazon Lumberyard is a free, cross-platform, 3D game engine for developers to create games, connect their games to the compute and storage of the AWS Cloud, and engage fans on Twitch. With Amazon Lumberyard’s visual scripting tool, even non-technical users can a...
Aerospike NoSQL Database Adds New Functionality for WebScale Applications
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 by Richard Harris
Aerospike has released the latest version of its NoSQL database offering new features that provide more personalized applications, more efficiency and greater stability across public and private clouds. The Aerospike platform is a distributed NoSQL database and key-value store architected for web-scale applications. It provides a high-performance database that can ...
New Webinar Series Covers Unified Cloud Monitoring for DevOps and IT Operations
Friday, October 30, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Site24x7 will host an upcoming webinar series in November titled “Unified Cloud Monitoring for DevOps and IT Operations,” which offers insight into monitoring the availability and performance of apps hosted in the Amazon cloud and how to gauge the end users’ experience of a particular app. The webinars will explore how to gain an in-depth understanding of the probl...
XebiaLabs XL Deploy App Release Automation Software Now on AWS CodePipeline
Tuesday, September 15, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
XebiaLabs today announced that its XL Deploy enterprise application release automation software is now available as a supported deployment option from AWS CodePipeline, a continuous delivery service from Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS CopePipeline allows users to build, test, and deploy their code every time there is a code change. With this new integration, AWS Co...
Datapipe Releases New Automation Services for Its Managed Cloud for AWS
Tuesday, July 14, 2015 by Richard Harris
Datapipe has released a new suite of automation and orchestration services for its Managed Cloud for AWS solution. The new Datapipe Automation Services provides the ability to work with Datapipe automation experts who perform an audit of existing infrastructures, identify key opportunities for automation, deploy custom automation solutions, and provide ongoing support t...
Amazon's New API Gateway Offers New API implementations on AWS
Tuesday, July 14, 2015 by Richard Harris
Amazon’s new API Gateway is a pay-as-you-go service which offers the opportunity to build and run application backends and connect applications to API implementations that run on AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), or a publicly addressable service hosted outside of AWS. The platform allows companies to implement APIs that wrap around, enhance, and effe...
Open Source WSO2 API Manager 1.9 Now Available
Monday, June 22, 2015 by Richard Harris
WSO2 has enhances the API management platform capabilities with the release of WSO2 API Manager 1.9, which is fully open source and runs on servers and in the cloud. With this latest version, WSO2 API Manager offers plugin support for third-party key servers, allowing companies to use their existing infrastructure to authenticate API consumers.WSO2 API Manager now suppo...
AWS Releases Updates to Lambda Platform for Scaling High Volume Production Applications
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
AWS Lambda is a zero-admin compute platform that removes the need for developers to configure, launch, or monitor Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances; and have to consider scale and fault tolerance. Developers can instead create a Lambda function (using JavaScript / Node.js), set the appropriate permissions, and connect the function to AWS resources.The platfor...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Offers Mobile Developers New Services
Tuesday, July 15, 2014 by Richard Harris
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has upped the ante in its efforts to woo mobile developers to use its services to build, deploy, and scale mobile applications. It has introduced a number of new services as part of the AWS platform.Amazon CognitoAmazon Cognito is a new service that provides user identity and data synchronization that lets developers create apps that authentica...
Amazon Releases Research on Success of Developers on the Amazon Appstore Platform
Monday, June 16, 2014 by Richard Harris
Amazon is trumpeting its success in convincing developers to utilize its platform with its latest announcement of an IDC study saying that developers are having positive results from the Kindle Fire platform. According to the IDC survey commissioned by Amazon, 65% of developers building apps and games for Kindle Fire are making at least as much money on t...
Amazon Web Services Enhances Elastic Beanstalk for Docker
Friday, April 25, 2014 by Richard Harris
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has enhanced Elastic Beanstalk with the ability to launch applications contained in Docker images or described in Dockerfiles. Docker provides a new runtime environment for Elastic Beanstalk, joining the existing Node.JS, PHP, Python, .NET, Java, and Ruby environments.With the launch, developers now have the ability to build...
How Pebble Converted 135,070 Customized Watchfaces For Pebble OS v2.0
Monday, April 14, 2014 by Martijn Thé
This is the first in a series of technical articles, coding headstarts and white papers, provided by the members of the Pebble software engineering team. The article details what at first appeared to be a daunting challenge faced by the Team in helping a Pebble developer convert the 150,000 v1.0 watch faces that his users had generated tothe newly updated Pebble OS v2.0...
Amazon Expands the Availability of Amazon Coins for Android Devices
Wednesday, February 19, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Amazon has announced that customers in the US, UK and Germany can now buy, spend and earn Amazon Coins on their Android phones and tablets.Amazon users need to download the latest version of the Amazon Appstore and their existing Coins balances automatically appear. Existing Android users can upgrade to the latest version of the Amazon Appstore and new customers ca...
Amazon AppStream SDK Streams Resource Intensive Apps and Games from the Cloud
Thursday, January 30, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
The Amazon AppStream SDK was created to help developers manage streaming an app from AWS to local devices. Currently in limited preview, CPC games has been using Amazon AppStream to improve the new-user experience for Eve Online science fiction game.Halldor Fannor, CTO of CCP Games, noted the use of AppStream could allow new users of Eve Online to st...
Amazon Web Services Offers 3D Gaming Graphics Enhancements
Thursday, November 7, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Do you want to build fast, 3D applications that run in the cloud and deliver high performance 3D graphics to mobile devices, TV sets, and desktop computers? Sure you do or you wouldn’t be reading this! Now you can build 3D streaming applications with Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2's New G2 Instance Type.
The g2.2xlarge instance has the following specs: NVIDIA GRID (GK10...
Appurify Launches Public Beta of Mobile Test Automation Platform
Wednesday, September 25, 2013 by Richard Harris
Company announces product collaborations with Sencha and Adobe PhoneGap, releases free SDK for mobile developers to streamline test creation and debuggingSAN FRANCISCO—September 25, 2013—Appurify, the pioneer in mobile test automation on real devices, today announced the public beta of its platform for testing, run-time debugging and performance optimization of mobile a...
