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Azure Cloud Building Best Practices

 In this blog post, I will talk about some of the best practices for building cloud applications. I started working on it as a presentation for a...

0 replies - 1792 views - 01/13/13 by Gaurav Mantri in Articles

An Awesome One-Liner for PostgreSQL

Recently I was looking at options for exploring CIDR blocks in PostgreSQL.  In particular, I was wondering about checking a CIDR block for unallocated...

0 replies - 482 views - 01/13/13 by Chris Travers in Articles

NoSQL Concepts and Design Patterns

Here's a one-hour presentation that wlll introduce you to different types of NoSQL Databases, as well as some keys and documents for NoSQL design...

0 replies - 4252 views - 01/12/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Does NoSQL = No Security?

In this 35-minute presentation, Will Urbanski discusses how RDB security features and threats apply to NoSQL databases.  He also exploresthe security...

0 replies - 1575 views - 01/12/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles

The Spring Data Project - An Interview with David Turanski

Curator's Note: The content of this article was originally written by Roberto V. Zicari over at his blog, ODBMS Industry Watch “Given the recent explosion of...

0 replies - 2219 views - 01/11/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Which Apps to Move to the Cloud?

When travel and talk to companies about the cloud, one of the common questions I get is about how to choose which applications to move to the cloud –...

0 replies - 1361 views - 01/11/13 by Ben Kepes in Articles

NoSQL or Traditional Databases: Not Much Difference

Curator's Note: The content of this article was originally written by Michael Kopp of the About: Performance  blog.Traditional Enterprise Database vendors...

2 replies - 3805 views - 01/11/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles

NoSQL Week in Review #12

This week in the realm of NoSQL, Martin Fowler wrote a popular post on schemaless data structures, and Brian O'Neil published a tutorial for creating your...

0 replies - 1906 views - 01/11/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Spring and Cloud Foundry - A Marriage Made in Heaven

Spring is the only enterprise Java framework that runs on environments like GAE's JVM.  On Cloud Foundry, there is tight integration for Spring...

6 replies - 2842 views - 01/11/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Using the Azure VM Depot

 Yesterday, Microsoft Open Technologies announced a complementary service to Windows Azure VMs - the VM Depot. The depot is a community-driven catalog...

0 replies - 1737 views - 01/11/13 by Brian Swan in Articles

What's Next for RavenDB

  After 2.0, what comes next? RavenDB 2.0 is a massive release, close to 5 thousand commits, 6+ months of work, a team of close to 70...

1 replies - 2051 views - 01/10/13 by Ayende Rahien in Articles

Parsing JSON by Hand from Azure Mobile Services

This post is about parsing data by hand coming back from Azure Mobile Services. It does not rely on the MobileServiceCollectionView to populate controls with...

0 replies - 1772 views - 01/10/13 by Bruno Terkaly in Articles

In My Mind: Why the ORDBMS Idea Failed

Some 15 years ago, the idea of an ORDBMS (Object-Relational Database Management System) was red hot, and I was very close to the flaming hot center of...

0 replies - 1944 views - 01/10/13 by Anders Karlsson in Articles

Why AWS is Important to IT Departments

Here's a five-minute video by CBT Nuggets trainer Jeremy Cioara that gives a 5-minute introduction to AWS and why the PaaS giant is vital to IT...

0 replies - 1694 views - 01/10/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles

HP Discover, the Enterprise, and AWS Cloud

Last month I attended HP Discover (disclosure: my participation was funded by Ivy World). The IT war already started however HP stands still not taking...

0 replies - 1491 views - 01/10/13 by Ofir Nachmani in Articles