Peter Wayner
Contributing writer
Peter Wayner is the author of more than 16 books on diverse topics, including open source software ("Free for All"), autonomous cars ("Future Ride"), privacy-enhanced computation ("Translucent Databases"), digital transactions ("Digital Cash"), and steganography ("Disappearing Cryptography").
9 low-rent cloud providers to challenge AWS, Azure, and GCP
Major cloud providers do it all, and usually for a sizable price. If the high cost of cloud computing has you down, one of these smaller cloud services could be a way out.
InfoWorld’s 2022 Technology of the Year Award winners
InfoWorld celebrates the year’s best products in software development, cloud computing, data analytics, and machine learning.
Beyond SQL: 8 new languages for data querying
SQL has dominated data querying for decades. Newer query languages offer more elegance, simplicity, and flexibility for modern use cases.
7 reasons to embrace Web3 — and 7 reasons not to
Web3 promises to bring the best ideas from the world of cryptocurrencies to the rest of the web. What’s not to like?
12 ways to slash your cloud costs
You can cut your cloud bill by 30 percent, 40 percent, and maybe much more if you know where to look.
7 ways the cloud is changing
Computing without servers? Programming without code? Let’s ponder these and other innovations in the constantly evolving cloud.
PinePhone: A Linux smartphone a developer could love
Not only do you get root, but you can use this ‘phone’ as a desktop too. Just don’t expect much from the camera.
15 ways to leave your cloud provider
From inexplicable outages to cyberattacks to head-scratching Terms of Service ‘violations,’ your seemingly solid perch in the cloud could turn suddenly precarious. Here are 15 ways to prepare for a fast exit.
16 technology winners and losers, post-COVID
The coronavirus crisis has shaken up business as usual, with some IT strategies and tools rising to the occasion and others in line for a rethink or tough recovery post-pandemic.
8 reasons Python will rule the enterprise — and 8 reasons it won’t
The rise of Python will lead many enterprise managers to wonder whether it’s time to jump on the hype train. Let’s weigh the pros and cons.
11 reasons to hate the cloud
For software developers and IT, the self-service pay-as-you-go cloud model seems like a dream come true. But then the bill comes due.
The best programming language to learn now
Python is clearly the best choice, unless a better choice is Java or JavaScript. Let’s compare.
How to make the most of the Google Cloud free tier
10 tips for stretching Google’s free services to the limit and pinning your cloud meter at zero.
How to make the most of the AWS free tier
10 tips for stretching Amazon’s free services to the limit and keeping your cloud bill near zero.
The best open source software of 2020
InfoWorld picks the year’s best open source software for software development, cloud computing, data analytics, and machine learning
Where to find free and open data sets on the web
From government, health, and finance data to weather, baseball, and Star Trek, countless collections of free data are available to scratch almost your analytical itch
9 ways to build privacy into your cloud applications
Look to these strategies to balance privacy with functionality and protect your applications and data against attacks in the cloud
7 dark secrets of cloud costs
Priced at cents or less per hour, the cloud seems like the best bargain since penny candy. How can you go wrong?
13 ways Microsoft Azure beats AWS
From Visual Studio integration to powerful machine learning APIs, you have more than a dozen reasons to choose Azure over AWS