What’s next in computing, told by the people behind the software

In 2007, Eliot Horowitz and Dwight Merriman invented MongoDB as a database designed for the types of applications they wanted to build…

Lew Cirne has lived the spectrum of experiences in Silicon Valley: engineer at Apple; founder and CEO of Wily Software, which CA…

Doug Cutting helped create Apache Hadoop nearly a decade ago while working at Yahoo, where he helped the project become an open source…

Andreessen Horowitz general partner Peter Levine has a long history in enterprise IT, dating back to his early career as an engineer and…

Facebook Vice President of Engineering Jay Parikh has overseen some of the company’s most ambitious technology projects over the past few…

Sam Lambert joined GitHub in 2013 as the company’s first database administrator, and is now the company’s director of technology. In this…

Mark Russinovich rose to fame in the 1990s as an expert in Microsoft Windows, helping users get the most out of the operating system, while…

On Aug. 8 at the International Neural Network Society conference on big data in San Francisco, Baidu senior research engineer Awni Hannun…

On Wednesday, Instagram unveiled details of its new search features and search architecture, which is based on the Unicorn technology…

Tamar Bercovici has helped cloud storage and collaboration vendor Box grow from a small company running a single MySQL server into a public…

Here is the second episode of the new Datacenter Show podcast, which I co-host along with Barb Darrow of Fortune. In this episode, recorded…

The first part of this interview with University of California Berkeley professor and AMPLab co-director Michael Franklin focused on the…

Michael Franklin is professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and co-director (and co-creator) of the popular AMPLab there…

As some readers of this publication might know, I was a writer at Gigaom until March 9, 2015. My former co-worker Barb Darrow and I did a…

John Allspaw has a long history on the web from Salon to Friendster to Flickr. For the past five years, he has been at popular e-commerce…

Adrian Cockcroft is currently a technology fellow at venture capital firm Battery Ventures, but he is best known for his stint as cloud…

Jason Hoffman is currently head of technology for cloud systems at Ericsson. Prior, to that he co-founded an early web-hosting company…

As a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Eric Brewer devised the CAP theorem — a governing concept in the design of…

In the first of a series of in-depth interviews we’re planning at SCALE, I spoke with big data expert Jay Kreps. Kreps is most often…

The private cloud market as it once existed appears to be fading fast, but don’t blame OpenStack. Its real killer was a flawed idea from…