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Splunk for DBAs
The DBA’s primary job is to ensure that the business’s information is always available, with performance coming in at close second. We’ve already talked about optimizing distributed queries in Splunk and map-reduce queries in Hunk. In this report we expand upon that with more information that a DBA needs to know about Splunk databases.
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Nginx Announces nginScript, a JavaScript-based Configuration Language
At this year's nginx.conf, Nginx has announced a preview of nginScript, a JavaScript-based server configuration language. Meant to accompany existing scripting offerings like Lua, nginScript will give technologists with experience in JavaScript a lower barrier to entry to create more advanced configuration and delivery options.
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Puppet Enterprise 2015.2: An Interview With Michael Olson
Puppet Labs’ latest version of Puppet Enterprise - version 2015.2 - includes new features like node graph visualization, inventory filtering, and a VMware vSphere module. It provides users with major enhancements of the Puppet Language and an updated web UI. InfoQ spoke with Michael Olson, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Puppet Labs .
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Architecture, Tuning, and Troubleshooting a Splunk Indexer Cluster
If you could handle all of the data you need to work with on one machine, then there is no reason to use big data techniques. So clustering is pretty much assumed for any installation larger than a basic proof of concept. In Splunk Enterprise, the most common type of cluster you’ll be dealing with is the Indexer Cluster.
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Introducing Splunk IT Service Intelligence
Splunk is jumping into the service-monitoring sector with a new visualization called IT Service Intelligence.
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Splunk .conf 2015 Keynote
Splunk opened their big data conference with an emphasis on “making machine data accessible, usable, and valuable to everyone”. This is a shift from their original focus: indexing arbitrary big data sources. Reasonably happy with their ability to process data, they want to ensure that developers, IT staff, and normal people have a way to actually use all of the data their company is collecting.
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Theories for Modern Engineering Teams
After a 5-year stint, Kellan Elliott-McCrea, left Etsy. Elliott-McCrea was Etsy's CTO for the past 4 years and VP of Engineering before that. During those five years both the software product and the engineering team underwent radical changes. In the article announcing his departure, Elliott-McCrea expounds five theories that guided him through those changes.
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Symantec Accidentally Leaks Multiple Google SSL Certificates
Symantec’s Thawte unit admits that flawed internal practices allowed multiple Google SSL certificates to be released in an unauthorized manner.
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Google Preemptible Virtual Machines are now out of Beta
A few months after its beta launch, Google has announced the general availability of preemptible virtual machines as part of the Google Compute Engine cloud. Preemptible VMs have a lower price than other types of VMs that Google offers, but they can be shut down at any moment by Google with a 30 sec warning.
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Luca Olivari on Multi-Model NoSQL Database OrientDB 2.1 New Features
Multi-model NoSQL database OrientDB supports storing and managing document and graph data sets. Orient Technologies, the company behind OrientDB, announced last month the general availability of version 2.1 of the database.
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Google's Cloud Dataflow Enters General Availability
On August 12, Google announced that its big data processing service has reached general availability. This managed service allows customers to build pipelines that manipulate data prior to being processed by big data solutions. Cloud Dataflow supports both streaming and batch programming in a unified model.
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10th State of Agile Survey
The 10th annual state of agile survey is open through October 2, 2015. The survey explores the worldwide adoption of agile.
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Heroku Adds Private Spaces for Isolating Cloud Apps
Since being acquired by Salesforce five years ago, Heroku has continued to evolve as a developer-focused, standalone PaaS. The recent beta announcement of Heroku Private Spaces – included in the Heroku Enterprise bundle and part of the new Salesforce App Cloud – addresses a key Ops security concern while also bringing clarity to the question of how to use Salesforce and Heroku together.
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New Linux-Only Mainframes Support Chef
IBM has announced LinuxONE, a Linux-only hardware portfolio which runs SUSE, Red Hat or Ubuntu distributions and adds support for different open-source tools such as Docker and Chef. This offering is targeted to both large enterprises and mid-size businesses.
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Bazel Enters Beta, Supports Groovy, Rust and Scala
Bazel, the build system that Google open sourced six months ago, has reached the first beta milestone as planned, adding support for several languages and technologies.