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How to Keep Up to Date with Windows Security Guidelines
Windows Security is a hard problem. There are countless optional settings that can introduce security vulnerabilities, many of which are enabled by default. The documentation for these settings are scattered with current articles freely mixed with out-of-date versions. One solution to this is the Microsoft Security Compliance Manager.
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Learning to Scale Websites at Mozilla
Mozilla is scaling websites from thousands to hundreds of millions of users through simple scaling patterns they have learned internally according to Brandon Burton, web operations engineer at Mozilla. The lessons learned include caching, scaling out web servers, asynchronous jobs, and databases.
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VMware Strengthens Influence In Configuration Management Tools
VMware added $30 million to its initial investment into Puppet Labs, makers of the Open Source configuration management tool Puppet. Commenters seem to agree that its a good move for Puppet Labs and that Puppet will keep supporting any type of infrastructure avoiding vendor lock-in.
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QCon London 2013 in 3 Weeks (March 6-8); Top Tracks, Sessions, and Speakers
Going into its seventh year, QCon London 2013 (Mar 6-8) is the largest event in the UK for senior influencers in software development. This year's conference is expected to draw over 1,200 attendees and will feature over 100 speakers presenting across 20 tracks. With only 3 weeks left before the event, there is still time to save £216 if you register before Feb 8th.
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MySQL 5.6 Enterprise Edition with Full Text Indexes and Online DDL
The 5.6 series for MySQL has reached the point where Oracle feels comfortable in releasing an updated MySQL Enterprise Edition for its paying customers. This version includes a significantly updated version of InnoDB with full text search and online DDL.
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10gen: MongoDB’s Fault Tolerance Is Not Broken
A Cornell University professor claims MongoDB’s fault tolerance system is “broken by design”. 10gen responds through its Technical Director, rejecting the claims.
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Jelastic Adds PHP to Their Platform for Service Hosting Providers
Besides Java, Jelastic has added PHP to their platform for service hosting providers. This article contains an interview with Dmitry Sotnikov, COO at Jelastic, with more inside information about their PaaS solution.
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Announcing QCon New York 2013 (June 12-14); Registration Open; Tracks Announced
Registration is now open for QCon New York 2013 (Jun 12-14). Some of this year's 15 tracks include: Polyglot Architectures, Hot Technologies in Financial Services, Java Innovations, Lean Startup Applied, Continuous Delivery, Applied Data Science, the JavaScript Ecosystem, HTML5, Mobile Development, and more. Register before Feb 15th and save $650.
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Phoenix: Running SQL Queries on Apache HBase [Updated]
Salesforce.com has open sourced Phoenix, a Java layer enabling developers to run SQL queries on Apache HBase. Update: An interview on Phoenix with James Taylor, Lead Developer at Salesforce.com, has been appended.
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Kii Cloud Back End Features Analytics and Monetization
If you want to gain a significant presence in the Asian mobile community, Kii Cloud provides a snap in back end for your iOS, Android or HTML5/JavaScript mobile app. It’s free to add a comprehensive back end that features analytics and monetization to your app during its current Beta run.
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Heroku Dataclips 2.0 - The Gist of Data
Heroku Dataclips 2.0 are a new way of sharing data - much like GitHub Gists. Exposing results of running SQL statements agains Postgres databases, Dataclips render in HTML, IFrames, CSV, XLS and JSON. Supporting revisions and versioning as well as forking they work as self-updating stand-alone data views or as simple HTTP based data APIs.
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H.265 Codec Standard Has Been Approved
The H.265 codec standard, the successor of H.264, has been approved, promising support for 8k UHD and lower bandwidth, but the patent issues plaguing H.264 remain.
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DevOpsDays New York 2013
The participants of the Food Fight Show podcast summarized DevOpsDays New York 2013 with one word: culture. They agreed that you can't go in and "make" a culture, but the culture depends on the character of the people. If you've got people on your teams who take responsibility for the bigger picture - who are seeing things through from end to end, chances are that they build a Devops culture.
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Making DevOps Work
Figuring out what it takes to get developers, QA staff, and operations staff to work collaboratively together is the first step to frequent releases of high quality software according to Neil Garnichaud's article "What Exactly is DevOps" in Dr. Dobb's. Neil shares his insight into the DevOps topics of developer needs, readiness, habits, partnership, and leadership
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Simba Technologies is bringing the power of SQL to Cassandra, Hadoop, BigQuery, and MongoDB
At its heart, SQL is a domain specific language designed to allow non-professional programmers to query databases and write ad hock reports. When a company moves from a relational database to a NoSQL offering the need for ad hock reporting doesn’t go away, it just becomes harder. Simba’s ODBC drivers shift the power back into the hands of the users.