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Cloud Optimization Takes Center Stage with Free Microsoft, AWS Services
While a cottage industry has grown around providing services to optimize cloud usage and costs, large cloud providers themselves are beginning to promote their own optimization offerings. Microsoft recently purchased a cloud performance management company and made its product free to customers. Competitor AWS is aggressively promoting their own “Trusted Advisor” program with a free trial period.
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QCon New York 2013: 50/100 speakers confirmed; Talks from NASA, Twitter, LinkedIn, Netflix
Over 50 speakers have been confirmed for the second annual QCon New York 2013. QCon New York will take place at the New York Marriott just outside of Manhattan (at the Brooklyn Bridge) on June 10-14, 2013. Registration is open and new speakers and sessions are being posted to the conference site every week.You can get in early by reserving your seat now saving up to $500 by Mar 15th.
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Grunt 0.4.0 Released: An Emphasis On Modularity
The Grunt team updated their Javascript task runner to version 0.4.0 on February 18th in their ongoing effort to decouple the library into more modular parts.
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Google and MPEG LA End All Disputes on VP8
Google has obtained a license for any algorithm that may be essential to VP8 and MPEG LA has a patent for it. Google has the option to sublicense VP8 royalty-free to third party implementers, opening the way for wide adoption of the VP8 codec.
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Vagrant Support for Amazon AWS and Rackspace
HashiCorp's latest addition to support Amazon AWS and Rackspace as providers for Vagrant enables new usage scenarios: for the first time it will be possible to spin up Virtual Machines in the cloud instead of the developer's desktop.
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Insight into the Phases of Scaling
Christopher Smith shared insight into approaching and solving the problems of scaling web applications in his presentation "The Five Stages of Scale" at Scale11x last month. In Christopher's presentation he made a case for approaching scaling in a stages with well defined components that are either added or optimized to improve the overall scale of a web application.
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HTC America Drops Ball on Mobile Security
Manufacturer HTC America affirmatively acknowledged Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges that millions of its customers’ Android based mobile devices were using software with potentially serious security vulnerabilities. The leading mobile device making company was ordered to make a patch available before the end of March 2013 to all concerned parties.
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Expired SSL Certificates Break Azure and TFS
Windows Azure experienced a 9 hour outage on February 22 that affected all users who relied on the storage system, including those using Team Foundation Service. InfoQ examines the details that have emerged surrounding the root causes of the failure.
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Concurrent Releases Lingual, a SQL DSL for Hadoop
Concurrent, Inc., the enterprise Big Data application platform company, today announced Lingual, an open source project enabling fast and simple Big Data application development on Apache Hadoop using SQL.
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Greenplum Pivotal HD Combines the Strengths of SQL and Hadoop
EMC Greenplum has announced Pivotal HD, a new Hadoop distribution including a fully compliant SQL MPP database running on HDFS and being “hundreds of times faster than Hive”.
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Using the Domain Driven Design Bounded Context Concept to Shrink a Large Domain Model
Bounded Context concept from Domain Driven Design (DDD) can be used to divide a large model into smaller models using the Database Context (DbContext class) in Entity Framework (EF). Bounded Context creates smaller, more cohesive models with boundaries between models.
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Competition between Real-time Hadoop Implementations Heats Up
Hortonworks’ new Stinger initiative joins Apache Drill and Cloudera Impala in competition for the best real-time Hadoop implementation.
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Experience Based Principles for Succeeding at SOA
After many years of working in the SOA field, Jean-Jacques Dubray has written down what he believes are four principles for helping to achieve successful SOA.
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To Live and Code in Kinvey MBaaS
Second in a series of articles about the organizations back of the burgeoning category of Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS), InfoQ takes a gander at Cambridge, Massachusetts company Kinvey, Inc. Kinvey’s third party data integrations, support for multiple platforms, notifications, versioned API’s and business logic features expedite the developer’s backend.
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Facebook Introduces Chef To Manage Its Web-Tier
Facebook rolled out Private Chef, Opscode's commercial infrastructure automation product, to manage its web-tier. To ensure that Chef meets Facebook's scalability requirements they helped design the latest version of Chef Server, which is a total re-write using Erlang.