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Alternatives to Eventual Consistency
Causal Consistency models offer an alternative Eventual Consistency for distributed systems; both models should be weighed against your system's requirements and risk tolerance.
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New Relic Open Sources their Docker Deployment Tool Centurion
New Relic open sourced Centurion, a deployment tool for Docker used internally to run their production infrastructure. Centurion takes containers from a Docker registry and runs them on a fleet of hosts with the correct environment variables, host volume mappings, and port mappings, supporting rolling deployments out of the box.
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Facebook Announces Apollo, a New NoSQL Database for On-line Low Latency Storage
Speaking at QCon New York on Wednesday Jeff Johnson, from the core data group at Facebook, announced Apollo, Facebook’s Paxos-like NoSQL database. Written in C++11 on top of the Apache Thrift 2 RPC framework, Apollo is a hierarchical storage system where all the data is split into shards, very much analogous to region servers in HBase.
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DockerCon 2014 Highlights
After the launch of Docker 1.0 there was more to come. The conference t-shirts said ‘Containers everywhere!’, with plenty of evidence of that from the large Bay area service providers. There were also some additional launches - libswarm ‘a minimalist toolkit to compose network services’, libchan ‘an ultra-lightweight networking library’, and more partners getting involved with libcontainer.
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Potential for Data Loss in SQL Server 2012 SP 2
The second service pack for SQL Server 2012 was recently released with over 30 bug fixes since the last cumulative update. But according to Aaron Bertrand of SQL Sentry, one important hotfix for Enterprise customers didn’t make the cut.
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Managing Stateful Docker Containers with Cloud Foundry BOSH
Cloud Foundry has released an experimental CF-BOSH release for Docker as an open source project, providing the same functionality as the original BOSH project, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services, but applied to Docker containers.
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Splitforce Updates Toolsuite for Mobile A/B Testing
Behavioral testing of mobile applications is becoming more and more important for a huge number of companies. Splitforce launched a tool suite to optimize mobile applications by A/B-testing in 2013. Now, Splitforce launched an updated version of its tool suite with functionalities like user-targeting, tests based on behavioral data or auto-optimization.
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Docker 1.0 Released at DockerCon
Docker.io have used their inaugural DockerCon event to launch version 1.0 of their container management tools. It comes just days after the release of 0.12.0, which was focussed on stability, performance and usability rather than introducing significant new features. Production readiness means that Docker.io is now providing support services for Docker.
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JetBrains 0xDBE: A Tool for DBAs and SQL Developers
Up until now, JetBrains’ IDEs have included plug-ins for dealing with database administration and development tasks. JetBrains has decided to extract the respective functionality and place it in an IDE of its own, namely 0xDBE.
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Ayasdi Partners with Cloudera
Ayasdi announced last month a partnership with Cloudera, the biggest distributor of Apache Hadoop. The partnership will ensure the compatibility of their solution with Cloudera Enterprise 5, the latest version of Cloudera’s big data platform based on Apache Hadoop.
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Everything at Google Runs in Containers
Google is using containers to run everything in their clusters, starting over 2 billion of them per week.
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Wall Street Journal: Enterprises Are Not Ready for DevOps, but May Not Survive Without It
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Rachel Shannon-Solomon suggests that most enterprises are not ready for DevOps, while Gene Kim says that they must make themselves ready if they want to survive.
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Hadoop Summit 2014 Day Two - On the Path to Enterprise Grade Hadoop
Hadoop Summit Day Two report covers the important trends and changes from last year's summit. It also covers the important announcements of the day in relation to this year's trending topics. This report shares an analysis of the Hadoop market by leading analysts, competing benchmarks by vendors and platform specific innovations and announcements.
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Governing Agile with Architecture
At the Agile Governance conference in Amsterdam Jan van Santbrink presented how architecture when used with an agile mindset can play a key role in governance. InfoQ interviewed Jan about why agile and architecture need to collaborate, how architecture can support agile decision taking and the benefits for development of doing architecture.
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Ravello Now Supports Google Cloud Platform
Ravello Systems spreads its effort on leveraging the job of development and testing teams by integrating with Google Cloud Platform, adding to Amazon AWS/EC-2, Rackspace and HP Cloud, the cloud solutions already supported in Ravello