Codecademy completes PHP course, ‘ready for prime time’

The free learn-programming-online site now has 11 modules and 86 lessons in all things PHP from the basics to standard if/else logic flow to arrays, functions, and advanced object-oriented programming.

Rackspace snaps up open-source database firm ObjectRocket

Cloud computing giant Rackspace has made a small but smart acquisition in ObjectRocket, a version of the MongoDB database that makes it lightning fast.

The high cost of server downtime (infographic)

Even when a service is up 99.5 percent of the time -- which might sound pretty good to non-developers -- it's down almost 44 hours in a year.

1 million users at 10 messages/second with 1 server rack = impressive

10 messages per second to 1,000,000 live users on single, solitary server?

Latest Olympics tech update: Aussies choking, French stumbling, but the USA is kicking ass and taking names

If you’re reading from down under, relax. Ditto to those swathed in red, white, and blue. No Olympic gold medals have been handed out yet. At least, not for long jump, shotput, or table tennis.

But when it comes to …

Insta-cloud: CloudMine makes big data super-simple for apps and enterprise

Big data often means big complexity. But CloudMine, the backend-as-a-service infrastructure for apps, just launched this weekend to take the pain out of data management for app developers.

CloudMine started out as a business-to-business big data service, but quickly pivoted …

Nginx: the web server tech you’ve never heard of that powers Netflix, Facebook, and WordPress

The world’s third-most widely used server technology powers the top social site on the planet, a billion hours of streaming video a month, the busiest blog site on the globe, and top content delivery networks like Cloudflare, but no one …

Google claims its data centers use 50 percent less energy than competitors

Google released an annual energy report for its data centers Monday, claiming that by measuring energy consumption, its data centers are 50 percent more efficient than other companies’.

Tucked away in Douglas County, Georgia, next to a Six Flags theme …