Articles by Dice Staff
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How to Get a Job at Riverbed Technology
San Francisco-based Riverbed Technology sells network performance solutions, including WAN optimization, application delivery controllers, network and application performance management tools and… -
Does Yahoo's Telecommuting Ban Signal a Trend?
Why a tech executive such as Yahoo's Marissa Mayer would all but eliminate the option of telecommuting has spawned any number of hypotheses about her motivations, from forcing employees to work m… -
Google Offers Better Web Compression—at a CPU Price
[caption id="attachment_8176" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Not all compression is good.[/caption] Google’s new Zopfli compression algorithm promises to compress Web pages further than the com… -
CloudFlare, Microsoft Azure Explain Outages
[caption id="attachment_8171" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Crashes suck.[/caption] CloudFlare essentially "dropped off the Internet" for about an hour on March 3, as all its edge routers (use… -
Tech Salary Trends Reveal Surprising Winners, Losers
While overall tech salaries rose a relatively healthy 5 percent during 2012, closer study of the numbers reveals some clear -- and surprising -- winners and losers. Among the winners: Network man… -
Add CSS, Database Tables to Your CodeIgniter App
In my last installment, we set up a framework so we could begin building the app we'll dig into today. Before we go any further, however, we need to do two more things. See All of Scott’s CodeIgn… -
Watch a 1-min Video Tour of Open Web
Today's tech professionals leave digital signatures – little pieces of themselves all over the web that reflect who they are and what skills they have. To recruit them, you're probably searching… -
Among Servers, Apple’s Mac Mini Quietly Gains Ground
In 2005, the first business to offer colocated Mac Minis inside a data center made its debut, provoking criticism of everything from how the Mini was cooled to the underlying business model. Sinc… -
Game Studios at the Forefront of Big Data, Cloud
If you want to see the future of Big Data, look no further than the nearest gaming-development studio. It isn't all fun and first-person-shooting. Game developers are the sentinels of a variety o… -
Microwaves Could Solve Need for Long-Haul, Low-Latency Networks
While high-speed optical fiber might be the way to go for large national research networks, point-to-point microwave connections have emerged as key links between financial exchanges. The reason?…