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QCon New York Update (June 10-14): JavaScript, HTML5, Future of Mobile Tracks; Schedule Now Live
The schedule is live for QCon New York 2013 with registrations 60% ahead of last year at this time and 65/100 speakers confirmed. Hear about the latest tools, trends, and innovations in Mobile, JavaScript, and HTML5 development across three in-depth tracks and many tutorials. You can get in early by reserving your seat now, saving $400 by Apr 19th.
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Google Promises Not to Sue for Using Their Pledged Patents [Updated]
Google is promising not to take legal action against any party using pledged patents for open source or free software “unless first attacked.”
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Docker: Automated and Consistent Software Deployments
dotCloud, a PaaS provider, has open sourced Docker, a key component of their platform. Docker is a LinuX Container (LXC) technology augmented with a a high level API providing a lightweight virtualization solution that runs Unix processes in isolation. It provides a way to automate software deployment in a secure and repeatable environment.
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Use Canary Deployments to Test in Production
Companies use "Canary Deployments" to test software in production by routing a subset of users to new functionality as part of continuous delivery according to Nolio in their 1st video in a series about DevOps Best Practices. A "Canary Deployment" is a type of incremental release performed by deploying a new version of software side by side with its production version counterpart.
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Has Web Style Worked?
Almost 7 years ago Tim Bray declared SOA dead and the future was Web Style. In a recent blog post Jean-Jacques Dubray looks back over the years and decides that Web Style hasn't worked and, given the plethora of non-Web Style services in the Programmable Web directory, is in fact itself dead. He also looks at what this means for computing and the future of application development.
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An Analyzation of Parse MBaaS
In this third in a series of posts on the new breed of companies offering MBaaS, InfoQ examines what makes Parse tick. Parse, like its growing list of competitors, saves mobile app developers the time and hassle required to create one’s own efficient mobile backend.
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ZeroTurnaround Acquires Javeleon
Java software tools maker ZeroTurnaround has acquired Javeleon, a Denmark based startup that produces a product related to ZeroTurnaround's popular JRebel dynamic Java class-reloading tool.
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Interview with Neil Bartlett about OSGi and the new Bndtools 2.0 release
Neil Bartlett, current maintainer of the popular Bndtools Eclipse plugin for OSGi has announced the release of Bndtools 2.0. InfoQ has interviewed Neil Bartlett to learn more about Bndtools and about OSGi in general.
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ZeroTurnaround has Announced the Availability of LiveRebel 2.6
ZeroTurnaround has announced the availability of LiveRebel 2.6, its software release automation tool. InfoQ has interviewed Krishnan Badrinarayanan Product Manager to learn more about LiveRebel and the latest release.
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Quickstart for New Users of Opscode Chef
OpsCode is providing a new avenue for learning chef aimed at equipping new users with what they need to start building "Infrastructure as Code". The content leads users through a quickstart, common cases, screen casts, and troubleshooting.
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PuppetLabs and Opscode Reveal How They Built Their Open Source Communities
Being nice to people and being explicit and transparent about how things are done are key ingredients for growing communities say both, Luke Kanies, CEO and founder of PuppetLabs, and Adam Jacob, co-founder of Opscode and creator of Chef. They both claim that you need to be genuine in the way you interact with your communities.
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Terracotta's BigMemory 4.0 and In-Genius Products Offer Real-time Insights From Big Data Sources
Terracotta’s BigMemory 4.0 and In-Genius products offer real-time analytics and insights from Big Data sources and integration with Hadoop. Terracotta recently announced the release of the new version of in-memory data platform BigMemory and In-Genius, an in-memory intelligence platform for Big Data.
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PeerJS 0.1.7: A WebRTC Wrapper For P2P In The Browser
Michelle Bu and Eric Zhang announced the release of PeerJS 0.1.7 on March 6th as a wrapper around WebRTC, a W3C initiative meant to facilitate P2P communication in the browser.
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MySQL Reference Architectures for Small to Extra Large Websites
Oracle has published MySQL Reference Architectures for Massively Scalable Web Infrastructure, a whitepaper outlining recommended topologies for different types and sizes of websites using MySQL for data storage.
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Applying Agile Practices in Enterprises Outside Development
After software development agile practices are now also being used in other aspects of business, according to Gartner. Insights in using agile in the whole enterprise, with examples from marketing, sales and services.