I have spent the last 6 months on a project where Clojure was the main technology in use. I can’t really say much about the project itself, except that...
0 replies - 5470 views - 08/03/12 by Ola Bini in Articles
An experienced project manager I used to work with claimed that he
took the programmers’ time estimates, multiplied by pi and converted to
the next time...
13 replies - 109755 views - 08/01/12 by Anders Abel in Articles
The content of this article was originally written by Scott Jarr on the VoltDB blog. This is the second post in a two-part series entitled The Big Data Value...
0 replies - 2804 views - 08/01/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles
“Practical Unit Testing with TestNG and Mockito” (website)
covers a wide spectrum of knowledge about testing in the Java environment
using the...
2 replies - 4999 views - 08/01/12 by Tomasz Dziurko in Articles
Simon Metson started working for Cloudant in March 2012 as an
“ecology engineer” and became a full time employee in July. He is based
in the...
0 replies - 2707 views - 07/31/12 by Simon Metson in Articles
Do you have a technical debt problem? Just like having too much
personal debt can lead to financial ruin, technical debt can ruin a
project. Ward...
0 replies - 2821 views - 07/31/12 by Jacob Orshalick in Articles
We have a lot more storage space available these days, and a lot more
data to work with, so Big Data and Big Analytics is getting much more
mainstream now....
0 replies - 1725 views - 07/30/12 by Anders Karlsson in Articles
Some thoughts after playing with Riak for a few days:
Basic: Essentially a key/value store implementing Amazon's Dynamo
where you can decide the level of...
0 replies - 4459 views - 07/30/12 by Rodrigo De Castro in Articles
Sean Hull recently wrote that RISK is the four letter word keeping Dev and Ops apart.
Developers are driven by getting new features out the door....
0 replies - 4627 views - 07/28/12 by Eric Minick in Articles
Should you ever delay events in your cluster? Kind of interesting
question. As engineers we are used to think that performance matters and
delaying...
0 replies - 2528 views - 07/27/12 by Dmitriy Setrakyan in Articles
Over the past few months, a lot has been said about issues with Android, resulting in some dropping Android from their app development roadmaps. First we have...
0 replies - 7203 views - 07/27/12 by James Sugrue in Articles
Automated testing is hard! Therefore, if you're about to learn it, just
keep going. Resist the initial learning curve as afterwards it'll allow
you to...
0 replies - 3540 views - 07/27/12 by Juri Strumpflohner in Articles
Time and again, you’ll find blog posts like this one here telling you the same “truths” about SQL vs....
0 replies - 3841 views - 07/26/12 by Lukas Eder in Articles
Summary: Should you read the book? It contains pearls of wisdom
hidden in the mud of “I know that already, man.” I’d thus recommend skimming...
0 replies - 3317 views - 07/26/12 by Jakub Holý in Articles
The content of this article was originally written by Avigail Ofer over at the Xeround blog. We at Xeround believe that developers should focus on their code...
0 replies - 2480 views - 07/26/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles
