Developers, by nature, want to build the coolest and most useful applications on the market.  This often means packing a mobile application with all the latest features and functionality that the platform makes available. Accelerometer? Absolutely! Camera? Definitely! GPS? Yes, please! We tend to forget that the user needs to give up personal information in ...

Today’s workforce is changing the concept of where work is done. Thanks to laptops, smartphones and thin client devices, mobile workers are empowered to work where, when and however they choose. As a result, telecommuting and ‘bring your own device’ (BYOD) programs are on the rise.  IT organizations are scrambling to meet the onslaught of ...

Editor’s Note: this is a guest post from Chris Cook, COO at New Relic.   For SaaS start-ups, tasks like scaling web applications must compete with a long list of other priorities. But not having a performance and scalability strategy in place can spell ruin and quickly grind your business to a halt. In a ...