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Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference Kicks off in London
O’Reilly’s Velocity conferences target web ops and performance professionals who like you to learn from their peers, exchange ideas with experts, and share best practices and lessons learned. The Velocity Europe 2012 event focuses on the core issues and opportunities that are specific to the European performance and ops community, as well as the most significant worldwide themes and players.
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InfoQ Research Project Update
As you may know already, InfoQ is testing a new service that we hope will provide you with up-to-date and bias-free community-based insight into trends and behaviors that affect enterprise software development. After a few weeks of being in production, we wanted to share with you, our community of users, an update on how this project is going.
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Microsoft's Roslyn Compiler APIs Updated for Visual Studio 2012
Roslyn, Microsoft's "compiler as a service", has been updated this week with a September 2012 CTP. This release adds support for Visual Studio 2012 (while dropping Visual Studio 2010), introduces new language features for VB and C#, and includes several updates to the APIs.
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“Drilling” Through the Big Data
Apache new project Drill is aimed to support real-time interactive analysis of large-scale (terabytes size) data sets.
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Why-run Chef
New Opscode Chef release includes whyrun (dry run) feature, output formatters, error inspectors, Solaris installers.
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Rackspace Has Entrusted OpenStack to a Foundation
Rackspace has transferred all the OpenStack code, trademarks and related intellectual properties to the OpenStack Foundation, leaving the cloud computing platform into the hands of the community.
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Udi Dahan on Throw Away Prototypes
In his recent blog post “Build one to throw away” Udi Dahan is addressing the chicken-and-egg problem software developers often face. On one hand, customers don’t exactly like what they want so that they need to closely interact with software engineers. On the other hand, building product-ready solutions for this interaction might lead to high costs.
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Amazon Reserved Instance Marketplace Provides Escape Route for Pre-Paid IaaS Investments
The Amazon Web Services team has just announced a new way for its cloud customers to sell their unused Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances. This means that customers who made long term AWS commitments in exchange for significantly lower costs can offload their machines before their contract with AWS expires.
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WMF 3.0 RTM Including PowerShell 3.0 Now Available
Windows Management Framework 3.0 features PowerShell 3.0, the command-line scripting tool for system administrators. Also included are updates to WMI, WinRM, and a new OData IIS extension.
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Community-Driven Research: Next Major Hurdle for Cloud Computing?
InfoQ's research initiative continues with a 5th question: "What is the Next Major Hurdle for Cloud Computing?". 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 Open Sources Their AWS Service Registry, Eureka
Netflix has open sourced yet another piece of their architecture, Eureka – a RESTful service used to locate middle tier services running within AWS regions.
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QConSF: Facebook, Pinterest, Ancestry.com Case Studies; Tales from Silicon Valley; Nov 5 - 9, 2012
75% of the sessions are now up on the QConSF conference site and over 80% of speakers have been confirmed, including keynote speaker Kevlin Henney, patterns book author and editor of “97 Things Every Programmer Should Know”. QConSF will take place at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco on November 5 - 9, 2012. Save up to $350 if you register by Sept 14th.
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SAP's Jonathan Becher Claims That Brainstorming Does Not Work
In the SAP Newsroom blog Jonathan Becher recently posted on the topic "Is Brainstorming Brain Dead?". Brainstorming is a method frequently applied within system and software development projects. Becher claims, the technique of brainstorming has proven to be a failure.
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Anthony F. Voellm Discusses Testing 2.0 at the Google Testing Blog
In his recent posting "Testing 2.0" at the Google Testing Blog, Anthony F. Voellm is discussing the evolution of testing. While some experts might believe, almost all research in testing already has been done, Voellm anticipates what he calls “Testing 2.0” . This evolution of testing could comprise aspects such as automation of complex decisions on quality issues.
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Windows Identity Foundation Now Included in .NET 4.5
Windows Identity Foundation, Microsoft's framework for integrating claims-based authentication into applications, is now part of the .NET Framework. It was created to simplify work with access control and authentication, and to allow for single sign-on across multiple applications.