From the old claim that “IT doesn’t matter” and question of whether tech truly drives organizational performance, we’ve been consumed with figuring out how to measure — and predict — t...

APIs (application programming interfaces), observe the guests in this episode of the a16z Podcast, can be described as everything from Lego building blocks to Tetris to front doors to even veins in the human body. Becau...

Here’s what we know about open source: Developers are the new buyers. Community matters. And there will never be another Red Hat (i.e., a successful “open core” business model … nor do we necessarily thin...

“Incremental change may be good theory, but in practice you have to have a big enough stick to hit everybody with to make everything move at once”. So shares Adrian Cockcroft, who helped lead Netflix’s ...

For better or worse, most of the computing systems that run much of our lives (whether invisibly or visibly) have become increasingly complex — they’re not fully engineered; they’re almost grown. And...

Why are people so fired up about a computer winning yet another game? Whether it’s checkers, chess, Jeopardy, or the ancient Chinese game of Go, we get excited about the potential for more when we see computers bea...

Infrastructure. It powers everything from cities to computing, yet is sometimes considered “boring” because it is so invisible to so many of us. But as software continues to eat the world, infrastructure has ...

Transactional databases have long been the most critical component of application design. Why? Because a steadfast database is generally the ultimate enforcement point for correctness in a messy, distributed world. Witho...

Dell recently announced an agreement to acquire EMC [NYSE: EMC] — and with it, control of VMware [NYSE: VMW] — in a deal valued at $67 billion at the time of the announcement.

Virtualization has been a key driver behind every major trend in software, from search to social networks to SaaS, over the past decade. In fact, most of the applications we use — and cloud computing as we know it ...

Imagine carrying around a bag of cell phones everywhere because you needed to use a new and separate piece of hardware for every single app — games, email, etc. — that you currently run on a single smartphone...