by ray | Nov 8, 2018 | Atlassian, HipChat
Two weeks ago, we predicted Slack would do something special to counter Microsoft’s announcement that it was releasing a freemium version of its collaboration application Teams. A freemium Teams, after all, was a direct threat to Slack, whose appeal to date was...
by ray | Oct 18, 2018 | Kubernetes, Amazon, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker
Containers are no longer a niche technology—more than 35 percent of Datadog customers with at least 500 hosts have adopted Docker, according to our latest research on Docker usage in the real world. As containerization becomes more mainstream, we decided to examine...
by ray | Oct 18, 2018 | Google Cloud Platform, Google
Short Lived, Low Cost VMs Preemptible VMs are highly affordable, short-lived compute instances suitable for batch jobs and fault-tolerant workloads. Preemptible VMs offer the same machine types and options as regular compute instances and last for up to 24 hours. If...
by ray | Oct 18, 2018 | Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon, Azure, Google, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft
AWS t2.nano or t3.nano (1 vCPU, 0.5 MB RAM) – $27/year Important Consideration t2 and t3 unlimited – https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/burstable-performance-instances-unlimited-mode.html Azure B1s (1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM) – $71/year...
by ray | Oct 4, 2018 | General News
For the fourth consecutive year, the technology sector boasted the highest-paying jobs in the U.S., according to an annual report from Glassdoor. Thirteen of the 25 highest-paying jobs this year were in tech, up from 11 in 2017, according to the report, which was...
