Each week the ServicesAngle has a conference call to discuss the week’s news and trends. It usually includes Editor Alex Williams; Wikibon analyst Jeff Kelley and myself. Sometimes we just do voice calls, other times we do videoconferencing. Sometimes we bring other people into the conversations. Wikibon and SiliconAngle are all about collaboration and transparency, ...

Editor’s note: DevOps Dossier is a new feature that highlights the tools, people and companies that make-up the emerging DevOps culture. Stories cross agile development practices with enterprise class, mission critical operations standards. Fabric Engine is a multithreading engine that integrates with dynamic scripting languages. It can enable applications written in JavaScript (and, by extension, ...

Yesterday Node.js creator Ryan Dahl announced that Node Package Manager (NPM) creator and fellow Joyent employee Isaac Schlueter is taking over Dahl’s role as the “gatekeeper” of Node.js. Today I caught-up with Schlueter to find out what’s in store for Node.js under his watch, and how he went from being a vacuum cleaner salesmen to ...

Today Rypple announced its first native Android application. It follows the revamped iOS version launched in September and the launch of its Social Goals 2.0 feature. Rypple’s co-CEO Daniel Debow talked with me yesterday about the company’s mobile strategy. Salesforce.com announced in December that it plans to acquire Rypple. The acquisition is expected to close ...

Last September Salesforce.com confirmed its reported acquisition of hosted help desk company Assistly. Tonight Salesforce.com is relaunching Assistly as Desk.com, a new service for small businesses that has been completely rebuilt from the ground up by the Assitly team. Existing Assitly customers will be migrated automatically. Desk.com features seamless integration with Facebook and Twitter, and ...

Today Node.js creator Ryan Dahl announced on the Node.js developers mailing list that he is ceding his position as “gatekeeper” of the project to fellow Joyent employee Isaac Schlueter. Schlueter is also a core contributor to Node.js, perhaps best known for building Node Package Manager (NPM), which makes it easy to install Node.js applications and ...

As I’ve written before, Node.js is an increasingly popular platform in the DevOps community. It’s being used for monitoring in Dtrace and Nodefly, for deployment in Dreadnot and for gathering statistics with Statsd. But if you want Node.js talent, you’re probably going to have to grow your own, or learn it yourself. Experienced Node.js developers ...

What if your wanted to build its own custom search engine? It could be a public facing vertical search engine like Indeed.com, or it could be some sort internal search engine that helps you search your companies’ own documentation or customer information. Either way, you’d probably turn to some of the usual suspects like Lucene. ...

Yesterday at NodeSummit 35 startups competed in NodeJam. We couldn’t interview all of them, but we had several on theCube and we interviewed a few others from the demo floor. Ranging from online foreign language tutoring to an engine that adds multithreading and other features to scripting languages, these companies displayed a wide array of ...

DevOps is catching on, and Puppet is one of the hottest job skills in the IT world. If you work in systems administration, datacenter operations or a similar field (or want to), you should probably learn how to use Puppet. Learning new enterprise IT skills has traditionally been difficult. You need a lab environment to ...