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Preparing for Your First MongoDB Deployment: Backup and Security
This article we focuses on the database backup tools and security policies when deploying MongoDB NoSQL databases. Topics like cloud backups with MongoDB Management Service (MMS), authentication, and authorization are covered.
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Pragmatic Techniques for Maintaining a Legacy Application
Maintaining a legacy application can make you feel like mice in a maze. In this article Ping Chen shares her experiences on how to pragmatically maintain a large legacy application. "Pragmatic” is the operative word; since a legacy application can have lots of technical debt, one has to be strategic in choosing the right battles.
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Monty Taylor and Jim Blair on CI and Test Automation at OpenStack
Monty Taylor and James Blair talk about the build and test challenges they face at OpenStack, and how they managed to tackle them. Managing hundreds of VMs on public clouds, integrating up to 400 commits a day and running thousands of test jobs on them are some of the challenges described.
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Cassandra CLI Internals Using JArchitect
Cassandra CLI is a useful tool for Cassandra administrators. It's a good example of how to implement a Cassandra client and CLI internals help us to develop custom Cassandra clients or even extend the CLI tool. In this article, author explores Cassandra CLI architecture model using JArchitect tool and CQLinq language to analyze its code base.
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The Perfect Dev/Test Lab: 10 Principles that make it Possible
Software that drives the business typically takes inordinate amounts of time to develop and test. Now with new technologies able to normalize the private and public clouds the ultimate software development lab is not only feasible but cost-effective as well. To achieve hyper-agile software development, here are key principles for building the next-gen dev/test lab of enterprise DevOps’ dreams.
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DevOps @ large investment bank
This article is part of the “DevOps War Stories” series. In each issue we hear what DevOps brings to a different organisation, we learn what worked and what didn’t, and chart the challenges faced during adoption. This time a very personal story on introducing a DevOps mindset at a large bank. In particular how the automation of configuration and release management processes enabled collaboration.
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Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Francisco 2013
This article summarizes the key takeaways and highlights from QCon San Francisco 2013 as blogged and tweeted by attendees. Over the course of the next 4 months, InfoQ will be publishing most of the conference sessions online, including 19 video interviews that were recorded by the InfoQ editorial team. The publishing schedule can be found on the QCon San Francisco web site.
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BYOC and the Rise of Hybrid Cloud
Chris Smith offers insights on how to leverage the increasing employee adoption of cloud services (Bring Your Own Cloud) to perform their work. Understanding the risks and benefits becomes essential.
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What’s Next in Software Analytics
In this article, a panel of experts in software analytics discuss the important and overlooked aspects of the software analytics field. Topics covered include what software analytics mean to the developers, practitioners, and information analysts and the opportunities for “natural” software analytics based on statistical natural language processing (NLP).
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Costin Leau on Elasticsearch, BigData and Hadoop
Elasticsearch is an open source, distributed real-time search and analytics engine for the cloud. The first milestone of elasticsearch-hadoop 1.3.M1 was released last month. InfoQ spoke with Costin Leau about Elasticsearch and how it integrates with Hadoop and other Big Data technologies.
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Securing Servers in the Cloud: An Interview With Trend Micro
What’s the best way to protect servers in the cloud? How can you account for the transient nature of cloud servers and provide the same protection in the cloud as on on-premises? To find out, InfoQ spoke with Mark Nunnikhoven, a Principal Engineer in the Cloud & Emerging Technologies division at Trend Micro. You can find Mark on Twitter as @marknca.
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Deploying it right with AppVeyor CI and PowerShell
Deploying real applications is hard. Questions arise when there are configuration settings in the Registry, custom folders structure, or you have to deploy to a web cluster. In this article we look at setting up continuous delivery for a solution consisting of ASP.NET web application and Windows service to a staging and production environments using PowerShell remoting and AppVeyor CI.