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Windows Azure Blackout Caused by the Leap-Year Bug
Several sub-regions of the Microsoft Windows Azure cloud were affected by the leap-year bug making some of their services unavailable for many customers for 12 to 24 hours.
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Ruby Enterprise Edition End-of-Life, Phusion Focuses on Passenger
Phusion announced that their Ruby 1.8.7 based Enterprise Edition (REE) is nearing its end-of-life. A Ruby 1.9 based version is not planned, instead the team focuses on Phusion Passenger, their solution for running Ruby on Apache and Nginx.
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Hibernate 4.1 Released With Improved Auditing Support
JBoss relases Hibernate 4.1 with improvements to the Envers module that allow for finding the database revision responsible for a change in a specific audited property.
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InfoQ User Survey 2012 - 14 Questions to Help Us Get to Know You
InfoQ would like to better understand your information needs: the type of content you find interesting, the kinds of tools & technologies you are using, and how you interact with the site. Please help us by taking our 2012 user survey - the survey is anonymous and your replies will be kept confidential.
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Oracle Big Data Appliance and Connectors Support Integration with Hadoop and Cloudera Manager
Oracle Big Data Appliance and Big Data Connectors support integration with Hadoop, Cloudera Manager and Oracle NoSQL Database. Oracle announced last month the availability of Big Data Appliance and Connectors as well as partnership with Cloudera. They also recently announced the Advanced Analytics for Big Data by integrating R statistical programming language into Oracle Database 11g.
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FluentData: A New, Lightweight ORM with a Fluent API
FluentData is a new introduction to the micro-ORM family that aims to be more straightforward to use than full ORMs like NHibernate and Entity Framework. It uses a fluent API and supports SQL Server, SQL Azure, Oracle, and MySQL.
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Travis CI Announces Support for Java and Plans for Travis Pro
Travis CI, a cloud-based continuous integration (CI) offering for open source projects on Github, has announced support for Java builds, as well as Scala and Groovy additions. After gaining traction among the Ruby open source community the project is now looking into the possibility of expansion to a hosted CI service (nicknamed Travis Pro).
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QCon London in 2 Weeks - Only 100 Spots Left!
QCon is now less than 2 weeks away and there are only 100 spots left before QCon London completely sells out. Register before March 2nd and receive £75 off. QCon is organized as a practitioner-driven conference designed for team leads, architects, project managers, engineering directors
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Apache Celebrates 17th Anniversary with HTTP Server 2.4
Apache has released the HTTP Server version 2.4 with performance improvements, enhanced concurrency, asynchronous I/O support, lower resource footprint and others.
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Caucho's Resin Application Server Grew by a Factor of Almost Ten Last Year According to Netcraft
According to Netcraft Resin has been seeing strong growth in the last 12 months, seeing an almost tenfold growth from 480k hostnames in February 2011 to 4.7M in February 2012.
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Economics of AWS Application Hosting
With the recent advances in cloud computing and Amazon Web Services infrastructure, many companies are trying to abandon their IT shops and move their software to the cloud. In his new blog post, Charlie Oppenheimer discusses the economics of cloud computing, comparing it with traditional data centers.
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Netty 3.3.1 Release Supports SPDY Protocol
The Netty 3.3.1 release adds support for SPDY protocol, which has been proposed for inclusion in http/2.0, fixes regression of Android support and reduces memory consumption of ZLib compression.
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QCon comes to New York: June 18-22, 2012; Registration Open!
The first annual QCon New York, taking place June 18-22, 2012 is now open for registration ($700 savings until Feb 26th). QCon San Francisco has been sold out for the last two years and we are excited to bring the conference to the east coast!
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Per Aspera ad ACTA–Worse than SOPA and PIPA?
According to news magazines, people worldwide are more and more against ACTA. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is intended to reduce copyright infringement and stealing of intellectual property rights. However, opponents fear the loss of civil rights. And the treaty may also have a large impact on software engineers.
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NoSQL Adoption Is on the Rise, a New Survey Suggests
A new Couchbase survey indicates that the adoption rate of NoSQL solutions by enterprises is rising. Will this be the year of NoSQL as some suggest, and what are the main adoption forces at work?