Intel Parallel Universe launched
Intel Parallel Universe, a free cloud-based application scalability testing service, launched today. One of the key challenges faced in multicore... more »
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Java Scheduling Gets a Shot in the Arm, Courtesy of Terracotta
Terracotta continues its open source project acquisition tear today, bringing the the Quartz Scheduler project into it's fold. This latest move... more »
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Azure to Feature App Marketplace
Mirosoft just announced that the Windows Azure cloud computing platform is now generally available in beta form. The announcement was made at this... more »
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CTO Ari Zilka Says Terracotta is Fast
Terracotta is having a defining year in 2009. Their Hibernate and EHcache products provide innovative methods for object-relational mapping and... more »
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Thoughts on the Cloud
A business partner of mine asked some basic questions about cloud computing. We had a small exchange that I felt worth sharing.
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How To Avoid Image Hotlinking & Bandwidth Theft In Your Website
How To Avoid Image Hotlinking & Bandwidth Theft In Your Website
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Time to sharpen your sysadmin/command-line skills! (FossCasts on Learnivore.com)
I've just added the FossCasts screencasts on Learnivore.com. FossCasts is a nice series of command-line/sysadmin related screencasts by John... more »
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11 Things to Consider Before Deploying Your Rails Application
We prefer to follow a checklist while deploying any rails application to production server. This list is certainly not exhaustive and we are looking... more »
Top 6 Open Source Java EE Application Servers
This is a very basic review of active and available open source Java EE Application servers and Servlet container (Web containers) to let the... more »
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Free Cheat Sheet: GlassFish Application Server v3
A must have for anyone new to GlassFish, or anyone looking for a go to resource for quick tips.
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100,000 tasklets: Stackless and Go
People are talking about Google's Go language. It supports concurrency, which here means light-weight user-space threads and inter-thread... more »
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Is OSGi Adoption Growing? An Interview with Kirk Knoernschild
Interest in OSGi has seen a steady increase over the years as the benefits of modularity drive its adoption. In a recent blog post, Kirk Knoernschild... more »
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TCP Portals: The Handshake's a Lie!
Whenever I interview someone for an Application Engineer or Security Research position, my favorite introductory question is, "Can you describe for me... more »
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Will SPDY Make the Internet Faster?
Right now, Google is working on an application-layer protocol aimed at making web pages download twice as fast. Google revealed the early-stage... more »
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Introduction to Amazon Cloud Computing
Amazon is the current leader of Cloud provider based on the IaaS model. At the heart of its technology stack, they have the virtual machine layer... more »
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Enterprise Java in 2010 – Expect a Cloudy Spring
Today I found a presentation by Adrian Colyer using the pretty cool Prezi tool. Besides the optical impression its content tells us what will be the... more »
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Apache Hadoop: The Definitive Guide Book Review
If you are a Java developer interested in learning about how to effectively deal with massive amounts of data, MapReduce for the Cloud, and the Apache... more »
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Desirable technical characteristics of PaaS
PaaS can most dramatically improve the IT experience in four areas: Hosting/operations efficiency, Application-centric management, ... more »
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A Look Inside JBoss Microcontainer's ClassLoading Layer
JBoss has always had a unique way of dealing with classloading, and the new classloading layer that comes with Microcontainer is no exception. With... more »
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11 Top Open-source Resources for Cloud Computing
Open-source software has been on the rise at many businesses during the extended economic downturn, and one of the areas where it is starting to offer... more »
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Java + Cron Job = Quartz
One of my favorite open source tools for Java/J2EE applications is the Cron Job scheduling tool Quartz. Anyone whose ever administered Linux or a web... more »
Book Review: Oracle 10g/11g Data and Database Management Utilities
This book should be on the shelf of all Oracle Database professionals. It covers all of the Oracle 10g/11g utilities. A must have in my opinion.
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Setting Up MySQL - Database, Users And Sample Table
We are going to learn the following: * Changing MySQL user password * Creating databases * Deleting databases * Creating MySQL... more »
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In a Bold Move, Yahoo! Releases Traffic Server Source Code
Yahoo has released the source code for its Traffic Server under the Apache Foundation Umbrella. Shelton Shugar, Yahoo's senior VP of cloud computing,... more »
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