Peter Wayner
Contributing Editor
Peter Wayner is contributing editor at InfoWorld and 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"). His work regularly appears in InfoWorld, and he consults on software projects big and small. The second edition of his book on robot cars, "Future Ride," is out now. Disclosure: He also writes for Hewlett-Packard's TechBeacon marketing website.
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
13 ways Google Cloud beats AWS
From Firebase to sustained use discounts, let’s count the reasons Google Cloud might be a better choice
14 ways AWS beats Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud
Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud have their advantages, but they don’t match the breadth and depth of the Amazon cloud
14 ways AWS beats Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud
Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud have their advantages, but they don’t match the breadth and depth of the Amazon cloud
17 clever APIs for every developer whim
Connect with these Internet APIs to add some crucial data, a helpful feature, or a user-pleasing frill to your application
17 clever APIs for every developer whim
Connect with these Internet APIs to add some crucial data, a helpful feature, or a user-pleasing frill to your application
Can APIs be copyrighted?
Oracle says yes and Google says no, but who’s right? Here are 7 arguments in favor of copyrighting APIs — and 7 arguments against
Should APIs be copyrightable?
Oracle says yes and Google says no, but who’s right? Here are seven arguments in favor of copyrighting APIs — and seven against
10 ways to improve your code after it’s ‘finished’
Just because you’ve squeezed out the bugs and delivered a working program doesn’t mean you should relax
16 ways to improve your code after it’s ‘finished’
Just because you’ve squeezed out the bugs and delivered a working program doesn’t mean you should relax
Why we can’t develop voting software that works
Ever wonder why we could write software to get to the moon, but not to count votes? Here are five reasons
5 reasons we don’t write code like we used to
Ever wonder why NASA could develop software to get to the moon, but today’s programmers can’t create a voting app that works?
12 programming mistakes to avoid
The dirty dozen of application development pitfalls — and how to avoid these all-too-common programming blunders
12 programming mistakes to avoid
The dirty dozen of application development pitfalls — and how to avoid these all-too-common programming blunders
10 bad programming habits we secretly love
Breaking the rules can bring a little thrill — and produce better, more efficient code
10 bad programming habits we secretly love
Breaking the rules can bring a little thrill — and produce better, more efficient code
10 picky reasons to pick AWS—or Azure or Google Cloud
How do you choose between one cloud of commodity machines and another? You have to get picky
9 lies programmers tell themselves
Confidence in our power over machines also makes us guilty of hoping to bend reality to our code
10 software development cults to join
Because programming is more fun when we take things to the extreme and obsess about the ‘right way’ to write code
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