In February 2021 Couchbase released the results of a survey that showed how developers play a key role in helping organizations meet their digital transformation goals despite facing significant challenges, including the disruptions caused by the Covid pandemic. Matthew Groves joins Steve Prentice to discuss the survey’s results and what they mean for the new […]

In 2017, AWS and VMware brought VMware Cloud on AWS, the VMware enterprise-class Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) software for all vSphere-based workloads, to the AWS Cloud with optimized access to native AWS services. VMware Cloud on AWS provides dedicated, single-tenant cloud infrastructure, delivered on the next-generation bare-metal AWS infrastructure based on the latest Amazon EC2 […]

Earlier this year, Microsoft announced a new calling service for Microsoft Teams (Teams) users called Operator Connect. IT leaders justifiably want to know how Operator Connect is different from Microsoft’s existing PSTN calling options and its potential to impact 250 million monthly active Teams users. The “Operator Connect” name might cause some decision-makers to scratch […]

Today, I am happy to announce the availability of AWS Cloud Control API a set of common application programming interfaces (APIs) that are designed to make it easy for developers to manage their AWS and third-party services. AWS delivers the broadest and deepest portfolio of cloud services. Builders leverage these to build any type of […]

Today AWS Step Functions expands the number of supported AWS services from 17 to over 200 and AWS API Actions from 46 to over 9,000 with its new capability AWS SDK Service Integrations. When developers build distributed architectures, one of the patterns they use is the workflow-based orchestration pattern. This pattern is helpful for workflow […]

Many of our customers (such as Formula One, Honeycomb, Intuit, SmugMug, and Snap Inc.) use the Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processor for their workloads and enjoy better price performance. Starting today, you can get the same benefits for your AWS Lambda functions. You can now configure new and existing functions to run on x86 or Arm/Graviton2 processors. […]

At AWS re:Invent 2020, we introduced the preview of Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, an open source Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that makes it easy to monitor containerized applications at scale. With Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, you can use the Prometheus query language (PromQL) to monitor the performance of containerized workloads without having to manage […]

When it comes to manipulating and analyzing relational data, Structured Query Language (SQL) has been an international standard since 1986, a couple of years before I was born. And yet, it sometimes takes hours to get access to a new database or data warehouse, configure credentials or single sign-on, download and install multiple desktop libraries […]

Like so many other areas of technology, the database is changing. For a long time we worked with relation databases and SQL, but the demands for flexibility, security and speed are making it clear: legacy databases are not up to the demands of modern applications. Matthew Groves, Product Marketing Manager at Couchbase, discusses database sprawl, […]

The Tesla Bot A few weeks ago Tesla unveiled the latest mad creation spawned from the head of Elon Musk at their most recent AI conference. Previous greatest hits include “why can’t we reuse our rockets?”, “let’s nuke Mars to terraform it” and my personal favorites “why can’t we fire people in a vacuum tube […]