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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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BDD Tool Cucumber with a Larger Team and Numerous Bugs Fixed
The project for Cucumber, a Behaviour Driven Development, BDD, tool, has recently increased the team and intensive work last months has brought open bugs down substantially, Aslak Hellesøy revealed when talking about the Cucumber ecosystem during a Cucumber conference day last week.
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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.
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Scaling Agile At Spotify: An Interview with Henrik Kniberg
Back in November, Spotify released a paper titled "Scaling Agile @ Spotify with Tribes, Squads, Chapters & Guilds". I recently had a chance to chat with Henrik Kniberg, one of the coaches on site there, to ask him some questions about the paper and to get an update on where they are today.
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Gartner's Technology Trends for Information Infrastructure: Big Data, NoSQL and In-Memory Computing
Big Data, NoSQL databases and In-Memory computing are some of the technologies that will play key role in modernizing information management in 2013 and beyond, according to Gartner. A recent report released by Gartner team identifies the top technology trends that will have impact on the information infrastructure and governance.
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WSO2 Developer Studio 3.0&3.1 Have Better ESB Tooling
WSO2 Developer Studio 3.0 and 3.1 improve ESB and Registry Resource Editor tools, has better performance, uses Eclipse Juno SR2, and supports JAX-RS REST code generation.
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Google+ Sign-In: Federated Identity, Authorization and Semantic Activity Streams
Google+ Sign-In extends the Google+ social network into third-party websites, desktop applications and mobile apps. This service, announced on February 26th, provides features for authentication, authorization and activity sharing. There is also support for user engagement, hangouts and automatic Android app downloads.
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Google, Opera Fork WebKit. Samsung Joins Firefox to Push Servo
There are two major browser developments recently announced, both targeting parallel architectures: Google and Opera with Blink, a WebKit fork, while Samsung joins Mozilla to push Servo forward.
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Martin Fowler on Software Design in the 21st Century
Martin Fowler talks about Software Design in the 21st Century split into three short talks, Schemaless Data Structures, NoSQL & Consistency, and finally the value of Software Design.
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Patent Holder Pursues IP Grab on TCP/IP
A networking hardware vendor based in Austin, Texas says it's going to pursue royalties on the implementation of the TCP/IP set of protocols. Formerly known as Dellor, KCIR Networks acquired Nett Labs in 1997, acquiring this patent into the bargain. The patent claim was filed in 1975, but Nett Labs never pursued royalties.
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Video Lessons on Agile Coaching and Organizational Change
Two video lessons covering agile coaching and organizational change were released by Pearson/Addison-Wesley in the last quarter of 2012. They provide a different way to increase knowledge on agile adoption for visual and audible learners.
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Got Node? AWS Latest Cloud to Offer Node.js Application Services
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) team recently added support for Node.js to its Elastic Beanstalk service, giving it an industry-leading set of supported platforms. AWS has joined a crowded field of Node.js-friendly clouds and will attempt to differentiate themselves through integration with other top AWS services.
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MongoDB Gets Better Security, Text Search, Performance Improvements – What’s Next?
MongoDB 2.4 was recently released with new features such as Text Search, hash-based sharding, better geo-spatial capabilities with GeoJSON support and several performance and tooling improvements. We also discussed with 10gen about what’s next on the roadmap.
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QCon New York Update (June 10-14): JavaScript, HTML5, Future of Mobile Tracks; Schedule Now Live
The schedule is live for QCon New York 2013 with registrations 60% ahead of last year at this time and 65/100 speakers confirmed. Hear about the latest tools, trends, and innovations in Mobile, JavaScript, and HTML5 development across three in-depth tracks and many tutorials. You can get in early by reserving your seat now, saving $400 by Apr 19th.
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Google Promises Not to Sue for Using Their Pledged Patents [Updated]
Google is promising not to take legal action against any party using pledged patents for open source or free software “unless first attacked.”