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Façade Design Pattern – Design Standpoint

In our previous article we have described about the Adapter Design Pattern. In today’s article we are going to show about another such Gang of Four...

2 replies - 3678 views - 12/06/12 by Mainak Goswami in Articles

AWS, Redshift and Co-Opetition

Long time technology commentators understand the tensions between platform companies, intent on both growing their business and creating a healthy ecosystem,...

0 replies - 2500 views - 12/04/12 by Ben Kepes in Articles

MapReduce's Founding Documents

MapReduce is an incredibly powerful algorithm, especially when used to process large amounts of data using distributed systems of commodity hardware. It...

0 replies - 3725 views - 12/04/12 by Mike Miller in Articles

Holiday Shopping 2012, Single Point of Slowness.

  The majority of the top retail websites performed very well on Black Friday weekend. Congratulations to all of you, engineers, operations, devops,...

0 replies - 2347 views - 12/01/12 by Mehdi Daoudi in Articles

Equivalent Form of the Riemann Hypothesis

The famous Riemann hypothesis is equivalent to the following not-so-famous conjecture:              For...

0 replies - 2439 views - 11/30/12 by John Cook in Articles

Java Dev's Experience Making a Music Generator

Recently I’ve undertaken a personal project (computoser) that is a bit strange. I tried to write software that generates music at random. Good...

0 replies - 1660 views - 11/30/12 by Bozhidar Bozhanov in Articles

The Evolution of Hybrid Cloud

Brian Gracely discusses how the concept of Hybrid Cloud has evolved over the last couple years, and how IT organizations can think about leveraging resources...

0 replies - 1824 views - 11/29/12 by Brian Gracely in Articles

Is There a Need for Emulators If You Have to Test on Actual Devices?

This is in response to a comment on my post about the undocumented way I found of creating a xap file you can't deploy to a #wp8 device. In...

0 replies - 3240 views - 11/29/12 by Matt Lacey in Articles

Building a Data Warehouse, Part 1: When to Build

Most developers are scared of “Business Intelligence” or BI. Most think that BI consists of cubes, pivot/drill down apps, and analytical decision support...

1 replies - 4045 views - 11/28/12 by Stephen Forte in Articles

What is Software-Defined Datacenter (SDDC)?

At VMworld this year, both in San Francisco and Barcelona, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger introduced the concept of the Software-Defined Datacenter (SDDC). This...

0 replies - 2883 views - 11/28/12 by Brian Gracely in Articles

What is SPDY? Deployment Recommendations

Originally written by Sehoon Park In the middle of this year a news report announced that Facebook is planning to support Google's SPDY...

0 replies - 5541 views - 11/28/12 by Esen Sagynov in Articles

The Rise and Fall of the Third Normal Form

The ideas for relational databases were worked out in the 1970s and the first commercial implementations appeared around 1980. By the 1990’s relational...

0 replies - 3298 views - 11/27/12 by John Cook in Articles

Who Stole My CPU?

One of the most important features of the cloud is the sharing of resources by multi-tenants. Without sharing and being able to optimize utilization of...

0 replies - 2366 views - 11/27/12 by Ofir Nachmani in Articles

Reflections on BoxWorks

Having had a little while to reflect on a month that saw me attend both DreamForce and BoxWorks, I wanted to get down some thoughts on what is happening with...

0 replies - 1700 views - 11/27/12 by Ben Kepes in Articles

How to Be Big-Data-Native

Big data has spawned a set of tools that deliver results beyond the buzz. It has started delivering real insights for companies, which result in more effective...

0 replies - 4696 views - 11/27/12 by Tharindu Mathew in Articles