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Windows Azure Management Portal with Service Bus, Media Services and Virtual Machine Monitoring
Microsoft has updated the Windows Azure Management Portal with several features such as Service Bus, Database Management, Media Services and Virtual Machine Monitoring. These changes are available to all existing and future subscribers who make use of Windows Azure to deliver cloud computing for their applications.
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Introducing DevOps Culture by Changing Behavior
At a time when the term DevOps is getting increasing attention from Gartner and other high profile industry players due to reduced time to market, better quality and increased revenue, Damon Edwards discussed at DevOps Days in Rome how to bring forward a DevOps culture and not focus solely on the automation aspect.
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Cassandra Storage Engine for MariaDB
MariaDB has announced a preview of the Cassandra Storage Engine. This is a plugin that allows MariaDB to access Cassandra clusters using normal SQL syntax.
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Community-Driven Research: Top 20 Web Frameworks for the JVM
InfoQ's research initiative continues with an 10th question: "Top 20 Web Frameworks for the JVM". This is a new service we hope will provide you with up-to-date & bias-free community-based insight into trends & behaviors that affect enterprise software development. Unlike traditional vendor/analyst-based research, our research is based on answers provided by YOU.
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Google App Engine Adds Continuous Integration Through Jenkins
Thanks to a partnership with cloud software provider CloudBees, Google App Engine users can now use the continuous integration tool Jenkins to build, test, and deploy their cloud applications. This new service continues a general PaaS trend of providing continuous integration tools that connect to leading source control repositories.
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The Future of Monitoring: an Interoperable Architecture
Jason Dixon presented his view on current and future state-of-the-art monitoring tools at DevOps Days in Rome. He envisions a composable monitoring systems with interchangeable components focused on a single responsibility.
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JSONiq: The JSON Query Language
JSONiq is a new query language that builds upon XQuery. Like SQL or LINQ, it has syntactic support concepts such as let, for, where, group by, and select.
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PhoneFactor Acquisition Enhances Security of Microsoft Applications with Multi Factor Authentication
Microsoft has recently acquired PhoneFactor, which provides multi factor authentication by making use of user's phone. According to official sources at Microsoft, this development will bring new security mechanism for Microsoft products.
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Valgrind Support for MonoTouch
MonoTouch developers may now use Valgrind-based dynamic analysis tools on their iOS applications.
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Prezi's CTO on how to remain a lean startup after 4 years
Peter Halacsy, CTO of Prezi, spoke today at DevOps Days in Rome about the evolution of the company in the past 3 years as a lean startup. He discussed how embracing failure is the only way to grow and improve the business. These principles affected all aspects of the company, from its structure to people recruitment, responsibility, technology stack and mostly the culture.
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ReportPlus: Create and Access Dashboards, Reports from an iPad
Infragistics recently announced the availability of ReportPlus which enables you to create and access data, dashboards and reports from an iPad.
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Ruby on Rails vs. Node.js at LinkedIn
LinkedIn replaced their back-end mobile infrastructure built on Ruby on Rails with Node.js some time ago for performance and scalability reasons. A former LinkedIn team member reacted explaining what went wrong, in his opinion.
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ASP.NET to Add Support for LESS and CoffeeScript
The ASP.NET roadmap has been updated with their post-VS 2012 plans. The next set of features will focus on OData functionality and new/updated templates for MVC. Editor support for LESS and CoffeeScript is also in the works.
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Another Week, Another Java Security Issue Found
Polish security start-up Security Explorations has found another hole that allows hackers to bypass critical security measures, affecting Java SE 5, 6 and 7 - the last eight year's worth of Java releases.
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Oracle Honors London Java Community, Gosling at JavaOne
Today’s Java Community Keynote honored recipients of this year’s Duke’s Choice awards including the London Java Community for its innovative Adopt a JSR program. James Gosling showed of Liquid Robotics’ new robot, Wave Glider, that harnesses ocean wave energy. Other recipients included the Apache Hadoop project, AgroSense, Duchess, NATO, and Parleys.com. This year’s student winner is Ram Kashyap.