In this week’s The Long View: Birmingham looks like the Detroit of the UK—is it Oracle’s fault? Plus: Was Toyota’s factory failure caused by running out of disk space?
Lightbend Launches Serverless Managed DevOps Service
Lightbend today unfurled a cloud service based on a serverless framework that provides developers with a managed DevOps platform to build applications that dynamically scale resources up and down as required. Brad Murdoch, executive vice president for strategy at Lightbend, said Akka Serverless provides access to its Java development platform environment that runs atop Kubernetes […]
Becoming a Data Company: A Tale of Two Trends
Data is back, baby! Well, that seems like an odd statement. It never quite left. Nevertheless, Google’s recent acquisition of Looker and Salesforce’s acquisition of Tableau seems to highlight this mindset in magnified ways. With eyes set on new leaps in data science and artificial intelligence, it’s easy to understand how our views on data […]



