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Amazon expanding ‘upskill’ training for software developer roles to workers outside of company

GeekWire

Amazon announced Tuesday that it is expanding one of its so-called “upskilling” programs to people outside of the company who are interested in acquiring training for roles in software engineering. Building on that coursework foundation and graduate success, Amazon is now bringing the program to students outside Amazon.

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Technologists From Intel, Cloudera and CTOvision Delve Into Big Data Designs 11 Dec 2014

CTOvision

On 11 Dec 2014 we will be providing a briefing on lessons extracted from our research into the new Cloudera and Intel partnership. On Thursday 11 December 2014, join noted enterprise CTO and publisher of CTOvision Bob Gourley, Cloudera’s Sr. By Bob Gourley.

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Join 11 Dec 2014 Webinar For Latest In Big Data Design Patterns From Intel and Cloudera

CTOvision

On 11 Dec 2014 we will be providing a briefing on lessons extracted from our research into the new Cloudera and Intel partnership. On Thursday 11 December 2014, join noted enterprise CTO and publisher of CTOvision Bob Gourley and Cloudera’s Sr. By Bob Gourley.

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Enterprise software developers continue to use flawed code in apps

Network World

According to software development lifecycle firm Sonatype, third-party components account for 80 percent to 90 percent of the code found in a typical enterprise application today.

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Links for June 1 2014

Eric D. Brown

Quote : The future of software development is bound up with distributed systems, and all the complexity and indeterminacy that entails. We’ve started to develop the tools necessary to make distributed systems tractable. If you’re part of a software development or operations team, you need to know about them.

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FTC lawsuit seeks to unwind Facebook's purchase of Instagram and WhatsApp

TechSpot

Specifically, the complaint calls out Facebook’s 2012 acquisition of “up-and-coming rival” Instagram and its 2014 purchase of mobile messaging app WhatsApp. The suit also targets what the FTC called “the imposition of anticompetitive conditions on software developers” to curb threats to its “monopoly.”

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Zulily website inaccessible and ‘down for maintenance’ following layoffs

GeekWire

Zulily, a one-time pillar of Seattle’s tech scene that was valued at more than $7 billion in 2014, is in the midst of a stunning downfall following Regent’s acquisition of the company from QVC parent Qurate in May. Email tips@geekwire.com , or use this form to contact the GeekWire news team.

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