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Data, Be Like Water

Sections
Operations & Infrastructure,
Architecture & Design
Topics
QCon London 2012,
Big Data,
Monitoring,
NoSQL,
QCon,
Tools,
Database Design,
Data Analysis,
Data,
Performance & Scalability,
Database,
Agile,
Conferences

Paul Sanford presents the transformations supported by data throughout its life cycle, and how that can be better done with Splunk, an engine for monitoring and analyzing machine-generated data.

News about Operations & Infrastructure

Lean Software & Systems Consortium Reorganizes as Lean Systems Society

Sections
Enterprise Architecture,
Operations & Infrastructure,
Process & Practices,
Architecture & Design
Topics
Kanban,
Agile Techniques,
Lean,
Lean Software & Systems Consortium,
Agile

The Lean Software & Systems Consortium (LeanSCC) whose mission is to improve the world by improving its systems and system-building capabilities (well known in the agile community for promoting the use of Kanban for software development) reorganized as the Lean System Society. The goal is to accelerate and deepen the Lean paradigm and bring together thinkers and doers from different perspectives.

Updating Web Applications Running In Production with LiveRebel 2.0

Sections
Operations & Infrastructure,
Development
Topics
Java,
Languages,
Deployment,
Operations,
JRebel,
Programming,
Cloud Computing,
server automation,
Infrastructure

ZeroTurnaround brings its hotpatching technology into production deployments via LiveRebel, a solution for online updates of Java EE applications. New in this version are the improved user interface and the transactional nature of updates (fully reversible).

CouchDB versus Couchbase: What are the differences, and what happened to Membase?

Sections
Operations & Infrastructure,
Development
Topics
Membase,
CouchDB,
Memcached,
Couchbase,
Caching,
Distributed Cache,
Distributed Document Oriented Database,
Companies,
Clustering & Caching,
NoSQL,
Performance & Scalability,
Database,
Infrastructure

Recently Couchbase published a comparison of Couchbase and CouchDB to denote the differences and simlarities between the two. This document addresses a common question: "What is the difference between CouchDB and Couchbase?", and what happened to Membase? InfoQ caught up with James Phillips, a Couchbase founder, to discuss the comparison and the merger of the two products Membase and CouchDB.

Articles about Operations & Infrastructure

Dan Allen on Arquillian Testing Framework

Sections
Operations & Infrastructure,
Architecture & Design,
Development
Topics
Java,
Languages,
Integration Testing,
Frameworks,
Programming,
Testing,
JBoss Arquillian

Arquillian is an integration and functional testing platform that can be used for Java middleware testing. It helps bring the tests to the runtime environment, freeing developers from managing runtime from within the test. InfoQ caught up with Dan Allen to talk about the framework features and its future roadmap.

The Future of Authentication

Sections
Operations & Infrastructure,
Architecture & Design,
Development
Topics
Authentication,
Identity Management,
Security,
Mobile Security

In this IEEE roundtable discussion hosted by guest editors Richard Chow, Markus Jakobsson, and Jesus Molina, the panelists discuss current authentication approaches, how to authenticate users on mobile devices and the future direction of authentication.

Book Review: Experiences of Test Automation

Sections
Operations & Infrastructure
Topics
Automated testing,
Software Testing,
Automation,
Acceptance Testing,
Testing

“Experiences of Test Automation” is a compilation of experiences in the field that is hard to read from end to end but serves well as a reference for experienced readers by providing examples of approaches, obstacles and solutions in a variety of domains and technologies as well as insightful overviews from the authors.

Presentations about Operations & Infrastructure

Machine Learning on Big Data for Personalized Internet Advertising

Sections
Operations & Infrastructure,
Architecture & Design
Topics
QCon San Francisco 2011,
Big Data,
QCon,
Database Design,
Data Analysis,
Conferences,
Advertising,
Database

Michael Recce discusses how advertising works and what algorithms Quantcast uses to analyze large amounts of data in order to find out what people are interested in.

Pallet - DevOps for the JVM

Sections
Operations & Infrastructure
Topics
Clojure/West 2012,
Devops,
Automation,
Clojure/West,
IT Service Management,
Deployment,
Infrastructure,
Conferences,
Testing,
Cloud Computing

Antoni Batchelli introduces Pallet, a devops platform for the JVM for provisioning and configuring servers, configuring clustered services, deploying and managing software, servers and services.

Interviews about Operations & Infrastructure

Big Data Architecture at LinkedIn

Sections
Enterprise Architecture,
Operations & Infrastructure,
Architecture & Design
Topics
Neo4j,
Neo,
Cassandra,
MongoDB,
Riak,
Graph Database,
BigTable,
Companies,
Key-Value Store,
Distributed Document Oriented Database,
Big Data,
NoSQL,
Database Design,
Database,
Hadoop,
Voldemort,
Lucene,
Dynamo DB,
Cloud Computing

In this interview at QCon London, LinkedIn’s Sid Anand discusses the problems they face when serving high-traffic, high-volume data. Sid explains how they’re moving some use cases from Oracle to gain headroom, and lifts the hood on their open source search and data replication projects, including Kafka, Voldemort, Espresso and Databus.

Optimizing for Big Data at Facebook

Sections
Enterprise Architecture,
Operations & Infrastructure,
Architecture & Design
Topics
Clusters,
Big Data Infrastructure,
Clustering & Caching,
Performance & Scalability,
Cloud Computing,
Hive,
Hadoop,
Infrastructure

Hive co-creator Ashish Thusoo describes the Big Data challenges Facebook faced and presents solutions in 2 areas: Reduction in the data footprint and CPU utilization. Generating 300 to 400 terabytes per day, they store RC files as blocks, but store as columns within a block to get better compression. He also talks about the current Big Data ecosystem and trends for companies going forward.