I spoke at Glue Con last week, a developer-oriented conference held in Denver this year. What’s the core message from the conference around cloud computing? You can answer that question with three ...

An application programming interface (API) is code that enables two software programs to communicate. An API facilitates the exchange of data, features and functionalities between software ...

Cloud computing is a general term for the delivery of hosted computing services and IT resources over the internet with pay-as-you-go pricing. Users can obtain technology services such as processing ...

(1) The hardware and operating environment of a server in an Internet-based datacenter. The system software components (OS, virtual machine monitor, etc.) are called the "cloud stack." See cloud ...