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Google Drops Free Apps Offering, Paying Customers can Downgrade to Free till January 9th
On December 6th, 2012 Google stopped to accept new registrations for free Google Apps domains, that could be used for up to 10 users. Existing free Google Apps users can continue to use the service without any change. Google Apps for Business domains can downgrade to the free version till January 9th if they have no more than 10 users and fit into the reduced features set.
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Opscode Chef Integration Tests Now On OpenStack With Test Kitchen 0.7.0
Opscode has announced the availability of Test Kitchen 0.7.0 with support for using on-demand OpenStack instances to test Chef cookbooks. Test Kitchen is a tool, which helps Opscode Chef cookbook developers to validate their cookbooks before applying them to their live infrastructure.
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Solving Difficult System Problems with a DevOps Culture
Michael Stanke, director of software delivery at Puppet Labs, has written on SysAdvent about how DevOps is the development of a culture that can successfully overcome complex and difficult system thinking problems. Michael shares his experience of transitioning into a new position full of opportunities to make technical and process oriented contributions.
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QCon London 2013 (March 6-8): Future of Mobile Dev, Finance Track Highlights; New Speakers Added
The 7th annual QCon London will feature over 100 speakers presenting more than 80 presentations across 15 tracks. Last year’s event was completely sold out with over 1,200 attendees. Topics include: Architectural Case Studies, Big Data/NoSQL, Distributed Systems/REST, Performance & Scalability , Mobile, Web APIs, Agile, Cloud Computing and more. Save up to £341 if you register by Jan 11th.
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Managing Hadoop with Apache Ambari
In his new blog post Hortonworks Vice President of Corporate Strategy Shaun Connolly discusses the importance of Apache Ambari incubation project and the main milestones achieved by the project in 2012: simplified cluster provisioning, pre-configured key operational metrics, job execution visualization, a RESTful API and an intuitive UI.
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Google’s Service Changes Spell Trouble for Windows 8
Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 rely on a technology known as Exchange ActiveSync. This technology is the communication protocol that allows applications in Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 to synchronize email, calendar, and contact information from Google accounts. As of January 30th, that service will no longer be available new users.
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Couchbase Releases Couchbase Server 2.0 GA
Couchbase Server 2.0 main features include flexible JSON data model, distributed indexing and querying, incremental map-reduce, and cross data center replication.
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jClarity Offers new Tools that Simplify Java Performance Tuning
In a world crowded with in-process and distributed Java profilers, jClarity is a new company with a niche in enterprise and the cloud, offering several tools designed with the goal of simplicity.
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Community-Driven Research: Major Software Development Trends for 2013
InfoQ's research initiative continues with a 14th question about: "Major Software Development Trends for 2013". This is a new service we hope will provide you with up-to-date & bias-free community-based insight into trends & behaviors that affect enterprise software development. Unlike traditional vendor/analyst-based research, our research is based on answers provided by YOU.
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Architecture, Strategy at Center of First AWS Conference
Last week, 6,000 attendees from around the globe were in Las Vegas, NV for the first-ever Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent conference. InfoQ was there to interview thought leaders and identify the key messages of the conference.
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Community-Driven Research: Top Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Toolsets
InfoQ's research initiative continues with an 13th question: "Top Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Toolsets". This is a new service we hope will provide you with up-to-date & bias-free community-based insight into trends & behaviors that affect enterprise software development. Unlike traditional vendor/analyst-based research, our research is based on answers provided by YOU.
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Netflix Log4J Optimizations Yield Logging at Massive Scale
Blitz4k, Netflix’ internally optimized version of log4j, has been released to Github. Blitz4j efficiently generates logs within a massively concurrent and heavy traffic environment while consuming fewer resources than other, more traditional logging technologies. Its use has lowered the cost of logging within Netflix by at least 75%.
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InfoQ Takes a Closer Look at Oracle’s ADF Mobile
Now that the dust has settled on the unveiling of Oracle’s Application Development Framework (ADF) Mobile, InfoQ examines the reactions to the product from the community.
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Amazon Makes Compelling Case for Hosting and Processing Your Big Data
The AWS team has announced a limited preview of Amazon Redshift, a cloud-hosted data warehouse whose cost and capabilities are poised to disrupt the industry. In addition, AWS revealed two new massive compute instance types, and a data integration tool called Data Pipeline.
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Facebook Now Uses HHVM/JIT both in Development and Production
Facebook has announced using HHVM, a HipHop VM with JIT compilation, in production, a solution that has unified their development and deployment environments, providing significant performance gains for developers.