Alex Williams is a full-stack developer and technology writer in the United Kingdom specializing in web development and data management. Cold start issues are a common problem facing serverless ...

When millions of people across the globe depend on your website and mobile applications, pinpointing problems can be as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack. Not so for Care.com, which cut the ...

A survey showed that more than a third of companies rely on user notifications to alert them to trouble, instead of monitoring tools. Although I seldom comment on vendor-created surveys, one recently ...

The Common Application, which has been posting increasingly optimistic updates about its attempts to fix the many bugs that surfaced in its new application system this fall, went even further on ...

My favorite type of onsite meetings are those where I help to solve a major problem. A couple of days ago I was visiting a large online gaming company. Most of what they do revolves around a web-based ...

We previously reported on a broad range of issues that can be caused by using the System Migration function to move from a PowerPC-based Mac OS X system to an Intel-based Mac OS X system [see articles ...

Roughly 40 percent of all IT projects surveyed in a September 2000 Gartner Group study failed to meet business requirements. The average cancelled IT project was scheduled to last 27 weeks and ...

Site lets students apply to multiple schools at once More than 500 schools accept the application Site%27s glitches prompted some schools to delay deadlines WASHINGTON — Computer problems have plagued ...