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Managing Rails Apps at Massive Scale

At RailsConf 2012, we sat down with five of our customers (including Jesse Proudman, panel moderator and CEO of the Blue Box Group,) and asked them about the...

0 replies - 3402 views - 07/13/12 by Leigh Shevchik in Articles

DevOps is Culture – What Does That Mean?

I hung out in an excellent discussion at DevopsDays driven by Spike Morelli around culture. The premise was that DevOps started as an idea around culture...

0 replies - 4668 views - 07/13/12 by Aaron Nichols in Articles

Efficiency is for Losers

Focusing on efficiency and ignoring effectiveness is the root cause of most software project failures. Effectiveness is producing the intended or expected...

1 replies - 10158 views - 07/12/12 by Dalip Mahal in Articles

My Reflections on Data Gravity

Dave McCrory introduced his idea of Data Gravity with a blog post back in 2010. The core idea was — and is — interesting, and got some traction from...

0 replies - 1872 views - 07/12/12 by Paul Miller in Articles

GigaOm: 'Hadoop's days are numbered…' Are they?

Interesting article at GigaOm: http://bit.ly/OINpfr I won’t repeat the main points - but basically it says that since Hadoop is disk/ETL/batch based it...

3 replies - 6447 views - 07/12/12 by Nikita Ivanov in Articles

Uncertainty and Risk in Software Development (2 of 3)

[In case you missed it, part 1 of 3] There are future events whose impact can have a negative outcome or consequence to our project. A future event can...

0 replies - 3439 views - 07/11/12 by Dalip Mahal in Articles

Windows Phone: Features Missing or Not Missing? You be the Judge

Introduction from the Curator:  Recently, an anonymous poster opined that Windows Phone isn't a good platform.  He gave 121 reasons why, and they are listed...

6 replies - 8949 views - 07/11/12 by Adam Benoit in Articles

Speed as a Feature - Part 1

The following article was originally written by Chris Kelly over at the New Relic blog. This is the first of my posts on Speed as a Feature. It was inspired by...

0 replies - 3149 views - 07/11/12 by Leigh Shevchik in Articles

Hadoop: My Experience with Cloudera and MapR

A few months back we started to endeavor on a new Hadoop cluster @ medialets We have been live with Hadoop in production since April 2010 and we are still...

0 replies - 8007 views - 07/11/12 by Joe Stein in Articles

Why Platform as a Service Will Rule the World

Automation is taking over the world.Machine Learning, Smart Robots is what humankind can expect more of.A radical technology revolution is fast replacing human...

2 replies - 4927 views - 07/11/12 by Bruno Terkaly in Articles

Managing Technical Debt Webinar

Last month I was privileged to present a webinar hosted by the ITMPI on the topic of managing technical debt.  The presentation discussed the technical debt...

0 replies - 1405 views - 07/10/12 by Ted Theodoropoulos in Articles

You Cannot Correctly Represent Change Without Immutability

The title of this blog post is a quote by Rich Hickey, talking about the Datomic database. Its a beautiful statement, at once illuminating and...

0 replies - 3033 views - 07/10/12 by Howard Lewis Ship in Articles

From 2010: Why I Decided Not to Use Cassandra

Recently I started working on a project, in my spare time, and I hope it will eventually get large amounts of data, so I started thinking about scalability...

2 replies - 5322 views - 07/10/12 by Bozhidar Bozhanov in Articles

Ben Kepes on Cloud, Cost, Coal, and British Economics

CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator...

0 replies - 2089 views - 07/10/12 by Ben Kepes in Articles

The Challenge of Small Ops: Part 1

I missed a open session at DevOps days, and I’m really disappointed that I did after hearing feedback from one of the conference participant. He said...

0 replies - 2761 views - 07/09/12 by Geoffrey Papilion in Articles