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Are Data Centers Harming the Environment? Since The New York Times’s explosive piece on data centers and their apparent harmful effects on the environment came out, members of the tech media and industry have voiced their concerns about what the article got wrong. |
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Making the Environment Pay for the Internet The world's largest companies have built massive data centers that use—and waste—an unbelievable amount of electricity. What steps are being taken to reduce the energy usage of these companies without disrupting the constant service that we've all come to rely on? |
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Facebook Unfriends HTML5 Will the release of Facebook 5.0 help turn the tide of dissatisfaction with the social media giant? In hopes of a strong rebound with users and shareholders alike, this latest release comes without the reliance on the previously highly touted HTML5. |
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How DevOps Could Have Benefited the Facebook IPO As Facebook's IPO debacle shows, the lack of a robust software development process can result in outages and impact large-scale financial systems. Bob Aiello explains how DevOps—which provides the structure to rapidly build, package, and deploy applications—could have minimized Facebook's damages. |
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Is Your Data Deceiving You? Do you know how clean, accurate, and up-to-date your data is? Learn how to increase the quality of your data so that your data never deceives you again. |
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Test Automation Gone Wild The stock market has a messy relationship with software. It operates on automation software, but that same software recently made the news for triggering stock plunges. If financial firms aren't scrimping on testing, then what or who gets the blame? Is there a place for testing in production? |
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Thanks, But No Thanks to Southwest's Giveaway Glitch Southwest Airlines, a company known for its fun-loving ways, recently tried to thank its 3 million Facebook friends with half-price fares for flights booked last Friday. But their plan backfired when a “technical glitch” caused customers to be billed as many as twenty times for a single ticket. |
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The Week in Major Software Bugs It’s another end of the work-week over here at TechWell and what better way to celebrate the upcoming weekend than by taking a look at the major software glitches and errors that recently took place. |