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Latest Technology Trends on the Radar
Thoughtworks recently released a new installment of their technology radar highlighting techniques enabling infrastructure as code, perimeterless enterprises, applying proven practices to areas without, and lightweight analytics.
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Event Store 2.0 Released with Security Support and the Projections Library in Beta
Version 2.0 of the Event Store, (an Event Source based persistence engine), was released last week with support for security, allowing for lock down of the Event Store and setting up Access Control Lists on event streams. The Projections library is now in beta and more documentation has been added.
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An Introduction to Neural Networks Using C#
Neural networks have long been an interesting field of research for exploring concepts in machine learning (otherwise known as artificial intelligence). Dr James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research recently gave an introduction to neural networks for those looking to learn more about them in an engaging talk that includes working demo code.
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The Database as a Value
During QCon New York 2013, Rich Hickey gave a talk on functional databases. Hickey is well known for creating the Clojure programming language and is currently developing Datomic, which is a functional database. During his talk, Hickey argued that the useful properties of functional languages: data as values and pure functions, are just as useful in the context of databases.
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Google Extends Their Services with Cloud SQL
Google is making MySQL available in the cloud as a fully managed service, including a JSON API for programmatic management.
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The Latest Developments in Neo4j
Neo4j has announced Neo4j 1.9 GA and Neo4j 2.0 M03. A new project called Neo4j Mobile for Android intends to bring a graph database to smartphones and tablets.
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NuoDB 1.1 Targets .NET Developers
NuoDB 1.1 includes a ADO.NET driver, LINQ and EF providers, support for Windows 64-bit and Azure, performance improvements.
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Concurrent Releases Pattern, a Machine Learning DSL for Hadoop
Concurrent, Inc., the enterprise Big Data application platform company, today announced Pattern, a machine learning based on an industry standard called PMML which allows analytics frameworks such as SAS, R, Microstrategy, Oracle, etc., to export predictive models and run them on Hadoop clusters
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Google Unleashes Their Public IaaS Cloud, Adds NoSQL Database
Google has opened the doors to its hotly anticipated Google Compute Engine and is now firmly engaged in the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) battle with the likes of Amazon and Microsoft. This week’s Google I/O conference also introduced a new fully managed NoSQL database and the addition of PHP to the Google App Engine Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).
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DNN Social Simplifies Customer Interaction with Gamification, Analytics, Ideation, Blogs and Forums
DNN Social enables customers to interact with the site interface via blogs, discussion forums, FAQ's and includes features such as gamification, analytics, ideation and activity stream, which enables site administrators to gauge the effectiveness of interaction.
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FoundationDB NoSQL Database Supports ACID Transactions
FoundationDB database platform combines NoSQL scalability with ACID transactions across all data within the database. FoundationDB team announced last month the availability of its new NoSQL database platform.
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Go Big: CA World 2013 Opening Keynote
Continuing our tradition of on the spot conference reporting, here are the raw notes from CA World 2013’s opening keynote. CA World is focused on products, techniques, and technologies in the areas of SaaS, Mobile, DevOps, and Big Data. The first keynote is led by Mike Gregoire, CA Technologies new CEO.
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Mobile Dev, Big Data Analytics Take Center Stage at IBM Impact 2013
At its annual customer conference in Las Vegas, IBM unveiled a number of new enhancements to its “MobileFirst” portfolio of products including data analytics support, mobile cloud services, cross-platform testing capabilities, as well as a series of updates to their core products to better support the mobile ecosystem.
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NoSQL Benchmark Compares Aerospike, Cassandra, Couchbase and MongoDB
A recent set of benchmarks compares Aerospike, Cassandra, Couchbase and MongoDB to see how they fare when it comes to insert throughput, maximum throughput, latency and behavior during a failover.
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IBM Mobile First- MBaaS, Big Data and Then Some for Enterprise
IBM has assembled a comprehensive portfolio of applications whereby enterprises can catch up to today’s current mobile computing trends. Mobile First is designed to enable enterprise to get their share of the billions of dollars that the firm maintains is being left on the table by the organizations that are not gearing up for this trend.