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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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WebSockets versus REST?
With WebSockets now a W3C Candidate Recommendation and a new JSR about to start in the JCP, the question arises about how and if WebSockets work with the principles of REST? Do they compliment each other, or will WebSockets, as some people believe, divert attention away from REST and towards a new style of interaction for the Web? There is even the suggestion that WebSockets "breaks the Web".
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Open House at Cogswell College on March 10th
Cogswell College at Sunnyvale, California, is widely renowned for it combination of digital arts disciplines such as video gaming, animation, and software engineering. On March 10th the college will hold an open house for students.
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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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The Role of Emotions in Software Engineering
A recent study by the Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M) investigates the importance of emotions in software engineering. In the study requirements engineering is considered
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RTI Introduces the Integration Solution and Data Bus RTI Connext
RTI (Real-Time Innovations), a company based in Sunnyvale/California, has introduced its product family RTI Connext. According to RTI, Connext provides a high performance data bus for integrating data sources of all types. Using the solution, engineers can connect data across devices, systems and networks.
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Group By in MongoDB
In response to demands for simpler data access, MongoDB is introducing the Aggregation Framework. This library uses a declarative pipe-line notation to support features such as SQL-like group by operations without having to write custom JavaScript routines.
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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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MySQL Cluster 7.2 Released with 70x Increased Performance and NoSQL Features
Oracle fires a new round for the heart of the NoSQL market. This 7.2 release of MySQL Cluster has new features putting it head to head with other NoSQL solutions including REST, memcached wire protocol, NoSQL C++, and standard MySQL interfaces. Oracle boasts 70x speed gains for complex queries using MapReduce like distributed joins. Is the world ready for a MySQL/NoSQL hybrid from Oracle?