Java 18's Simple Web Server lets you use a command-line tool or API to host files and more. Here's how it works.

Alexa Internet is offering online computing capacity for $1 an hour — and throwing in access to the database of millions of Web pages that lurk behind its Alexa toolbar search service ...

Google wants the same thing for the web. Google's plan is that, during a webpage transaction, the web server could require you to pass an "environment attestation" test before you get any data.

Google's Cloud Platform has long featured Cloud SQL, a zero-maintenance MySQL database that's hosted on Google's cloud platform. What it didn't offer was an API to easily manage these databases ...