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How Fog Creek Software Made Kiln's Search 1000x Faster with Elasticsearch

ElasticSearch is an open source, distributed, real-time search and analytics engine. This is the story of how Elasticsearch helped Fog Creek Software make Kiln’s Search 1000x faster.

Kevin Gessner
on Sep 11, 2013
Interview with Mary Delamater, Author of Murach's ASP.NET 4.5 Web Programming with C# 2012

Murach Publishing continues to provide quality content for programmers by updating their titles regularly. Murach ASP.NET 4.5 Web Programming with C# 2012 by Mary Delamater and Anne Boehm attempts to provide a comprehensive coverage of ASP.NET 4.5 using C# language with plenty of screenshots and source codes to help developers to code in real world situations.

Anand Narayanaswamy
on Sep 10, 2013
Book Review: Vagrant up and running

Mitchell Hashimoto released his book "Vagrant up and running" which covers everything from basic Vagrant usage to extending its functionality. In seven chapters he explains every aspect of Vagrant - from staring a default VM to extending it via plug-ins.

Matthias Marschall
on Sep 06, 2013
Preparing for Continuous Delivery in the Enterprise

In this article you will find guidance on how to get started realizing a Continuous Delivery vision, especially in the context of existing development and release environments in large enterprises.

Andrew Phillips
on Aug 28, 2013
Getting Started with HotSpot and OpenJDK

In this article, we look at the HotSpot Java Virtual Machine, and its implementation in the OpenJDK, both from a VM perspective and also in terms of its interaction with the Java class libraries.

Ben Evans
on Aug 27, 2013
Database Versioning and Delivery with Upgrade Scripts

Konrad Lukasik provides practical advice on versioning and preparing a database for delivery using upgrade scripts. The article is based on experiences from enterprise environment and includes accompanying scripts and table definitions.

Konrad Lukasik
on Aug 23, 2013
Book Review: DevOps for Developers

Despite its title, “DevOps for Developers” is an introductory level book for anyone interested in DevOps, focusing on three perspectives: Metrics and Measurement View, Process View and Technical View.

Manuel Pais
on Aug 16, 2013
Java 7 Sockets Direct Protocol – Write Once, Run Everywhere …. and Run (Some Places) Blazingly

This article looks at the new Java Sockets Direct Protocol (SDP) technology, recently introduced in the Java 7 SDK. SDP empowers the Ultra High Performance Computing community to use Java’s for native access to the InfiniBand Remote Direct Memory Access capability, to directly access memory on other computers without involving the operating system.

Ben Cotton
on Aug 15, 2013
Big Data Security: The Evolution of Hadoop’s Security Model

In his new article, Kevin T Smith focuses on the importance of Big Data Security and he discusses the evolution of Hadoop's security model. He addresses the current trends in Hadoop security implementations and provides an overview of the details of project Rhino aimed to improve the security capabilities of Hadoop and the Hadoop ecosystem.

Kevin T. Smith
on Aug 14, 2013
C++/CX Performance Pitfalls

Writing applications in C++/CX is not like writing normal C++ applications. The interoperability between pure C++ code and the Windows Runtime (WinRT) can be surprisingly expensive. In this article based on Sridhar Madhugiri’s video, C++/CX Best Practices, we look at some of the ways to avoid performance problems in Windows 8 development.

Jonathan Allen
on Aug 09, 2013
Book Review:"Eclipse 4 Plug-in Development by Example"

Regular InfoQ Java contributor Dr. Alex Blewitt recently published “Eclipse 4 Plug-in Development by Example” via PACKT publishing. Using Java as its language, the book provides a thorough tutorial for would-be Eclipse Plug-in developers. Later chapters cover build automation and detailed coverage of the Eclipse 4 model.

Charles Humble
on Aug 07, 2013
Interview with Ian Hughes on Virtual Environments and Gaming for Product Development

Virtual environments can be a rich form of communication, where people can brainstorm, share and discuss ideas, or collaborate on a virtual version of a product. They can also add a new dimension to customer interaction. Games can be used to simulate situations, as an enhancement for learning and teaching complex problems. Ian Hughes talking about mixing the physical world and the virtual world.

Ben Linders
on Aug 05, 2013

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