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Mitch Pronschinske03/27/12
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Opscode and Chef Deliver VC Counterpunch to Puppet Labs

This week Opscode, the makers of the enterprise software around open source Chef, received a whopping $19.5M in net Series C funding from Ignition Partners, bringing their total financing to $31M. That's nearly double the financing received by competitor Puppet Labs, who builds software around another config management tool—Puppet.

Mitch Pronschinske03/22/12
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New Features in Fork/Join from Java Concurrency Master, Doug Lea

Big news for the Java community today as Doug Lea, a specialist in concurrent programming and concurrent data structures, released some updates to his awesome Fork/Join framework.

Mitch Pronschinske03/22/12
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6 Tips For Thinking About Big Data in Your Organization

Avinash Kaushik is the Digital Marketing Evangelist for Google.  In this presentation at Strata 2012, a Big Data and Data Science conference, he hopes to...

Mitch Pronschinske03/21/12
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How to Get a Twitter-esque Architecture Out of the Box

Today, a developer can work on a platform that integrates Hadoop, Cassandra, and Solr on a single cluster… Hey! Those technologies are used at another major company I've read about… what was their name again?

Mitch Pronschinske03/20/12
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Netflix is Not Doing "NoOps"

Does Netflix have an Ops team? Twitter has been buzzing back and forth about this NoOps declaration recently but now Adrian Cockcroft has revealed the truth about how things work at Netflix...

Mitch Pronschinske03/15/12
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GlassFish App Server Monitoring Data Persistence With "LightFish"

Ever wanted an easy tool for persisting your App Server's monitoring data with no external dependencies. Well if you use GlassFish you're in luck, because Adam Bien has created a cool tool for that app server called LightFish that will store your monitoring data up in a RDBMS. It then pushes that data to a JavaFX 2 UI in real-time to visualize this data.

Mitch Pronschinske03/14/12
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Vagrant Plugin for Snapping a Screenshot of All Your VMs

New on the blogosphere today is a super-useful little Vagrant plugin from Juarez Bochi that takes screenshots for all active VMs.

Mitch Pronschinske03/13/12
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Netflix's "Priam": Improving Cassandra Usability

URL:  http://cloud.dzone.com/articles/netflix-announces-priam?mz=36885-nosql Large Thumbnail:  Screen shot 2012-03-13 at 2.11.32 PM.png ...

Mitch Pronschinske03/13/12
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Scaling Solr with SolrCloud, Hadoop and Behemoth

URL:  http://java.dzone.com/articles/scaling-solr-indexing?mz=33057-solr_lucene# Large Thumbnail:  Screen shot 2012-03-13 at 1.48.10 PM.png ...

Mitch Pronschinske03/12/12
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Hilarious Song Heralds the DevOpsDays Sessions Unveiling

The DevOpsDay conference scheduled for April 2-3 2012 in Austin, TX. Several sessions are now up for you to see, and then there's this... song... well, you'll just have to listen for yourself. I laughed long and hard.

Mitch Pronschinske03/08/12
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Debating the "DevOps" Job Title - In the Workplace and the Job Market

There is a growing number of job postings for people with a "DevOps" job title. Consider these insightful perspectives from Jez Humble, Spike Morelli, and John Vincent (aka. lusis).

Mitch Pronschinske02/29/12
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Reviewing 'Build Your Own EC2' OSS - Cloudstack 3.0

CloudStack is an open source cloud orchestration platform that essentially enables service providers to set up on-demand, elastic cloud computing services that function like Amazon EC2. If you've heard of Rackspace's OpenStack, you could consider CloudStack a direct competitor. Here's a TL;DR list of the main strengths of the updated platform.

Mitch Pronschinske02/29/12
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DZone Meetup Strikes Sofia, Bulgaria!

After 2 hugely successful DZone VIP meetups in Cary, NC (USA) and Colombo, Sri Lanka, a third meetup concluded last month in Sofia, Bulgaria - organized by one of DZone's team members, Jordan Jambazov. See pics and user reflections on the meetup

Mitch Pronschinske02/29/12
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Emerging "Kits" for Java and .NET Interoperability Scenarios

Today JNBridge announced that they're going to release downloadable kits for various interop scenarios on a continuing basis, and they'll even be taking requests from the Java and .NET communities. The kits will include code and documentation, plus users will be able to build or enhance them but some assembly is required.

Mitch Pronschinske02/21/12
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Travis CI Gains Java, Scala, and Groovy Support

Travis CI is a hosted distributed continuous integration for the open source community. It has some features that aren't found anywhere else. It is integrated with GitHub and offers first class support for multiple technologies. Today the project has added support for Java, Scala, and Groovy!