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Introduction to Hadoop: Real-World Hadoop Clusters and Applications
The Hadoop ecosystem relies on composability — the ability to use output from one tool as input to the next — to efficiently process data at scale, from simple projects, to processing streams of real-time data, to building data warehouses.
Hadoop: Writing and Running Your First Project
MapReduce on small datasets can be run easily and without much coding or fiddling — provided you know what to do. Here's how.
Hadoop: The Lay of the Land
The core map-reduce framework for big data consists of several interlocking technologies. This first installment of our tutorial explains what Hadoop does and how the pieces fit together.
The Pragmatic Side of Using Big Data
A successful big data project is far less about correlating disparate data structures and far more about articulating a testable hypothesis, designing that test, and evaluating the results.
MongoDB with C#: Deep Dive
Using MongoDB in an ASP.NET MVC Web app.
Database News
Oracle Uses HTML5 To Enhance Application Mobility
HTML5 to provide simplified remote access to enterprise apps
McObject's New eXtremeDB 5.0 Menu
Embedded DBMS with developer efficiency improvements
Profound Open Sources UI Tool Framework
Improved integration with IBM i and better security
Application Monitoring In Complex Multi-Tier Worlds
Riverbed APM portfolio updated with release of OPNET AppInternals Xpert 8.5
Oracle Announces Event Processing For Java Embedded
Java on the edge
10gen Releases MongoDB 2.4
Management, performance, and productivity drives NoSQL database
TIBCO Opens Up 30 Data Source Analytics Stream
Management-by-Exception visualization techniques also included
Oracle and Eclipse Foundation Urge Developers To Code For M2M
A new M2M-centric big data-oriented device-to-datacenter world
FairCom Announces c-treeAce Replication Agent
Maintains both physical and logical separate copies of a database
Oracle Plans Open Source JavaFX for iOS and Android
Java team working plans for early 2013 are extremely busy
Events of Interest
May 28-31. Boston, MA. AnDevCon Android Developer Conference
May 28-30. San Francisco, CA. O'Reilly Fluent Conference
June 4-5, Santa Clara, CA. JAXConf 2013 (free)
June 10-14. New York, NY. QCon
June 12. Chicago, IL. Chicago Algorithmic Trading Conference: for Developers, by Developers
June 13-14. Santa Clara, CA. Gradle Summit 2013
June 17-19. Boston, MA. E2 Conference
June 18-20. Santa Clara, CA. O'Reilly Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference
June 26-27. San Francisco, CA. Build 2013
July 22-26. Portland, OR. O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2013
July 29-31, 2013. Santa Clara, CA. JVM Language Summit
August 20-21. Raleigh, NC. Business and Technology Solutions Summit 2013: Cloud and Big Data Conference and Expo
September 16-19. Santa Clara, CA. Storage Developer Conference (SDC)
September 18-20. St. Louis, MO. Strange Loop 2013
October 1-3. San Francisco, CA. Atlassian Summit 2013
October 5-6. Los Altos Hills, CA. Silicon Valley Code Camp
Videos of Past Events
March 2013. GPU Technology Conference
September 2012. Strangeloop
September 2012. Intel Developer Forum
August 2012. VMWorld
July 2012. Java Language Summit
June 2012. Google I/O 2012
May 2012. Atlassian Summit
May 2012 (paid). Fluent Conference
March 2012. Multicore World
July 2011. JVM Language Summit
Best of the Web
First C Compiler Now on Github
The earliest known C compiler by the legendary Dennis Ritchie has been published on the repository.
HTML5 Mobile Development: Seven Good Ideas (and Three Bad Ones)
HTML5 Mobile Development: Seven Good Ideas (and Three Bad Ones)
Building Bare Metal ARM Systems with GNU
All you need to know to get up and running... and programming on ARM
Amazon's Vogels Challenges IT: Rethink App Dev
Amazon Web Services CTO says promised land of cloud computing requires a new generation of applications that follow different principles.
How to Select a PaaS Partner
Eventually, the vast majority of Web applications will run on a platform-as-a-service, or PaaS, vendor's infrastructure. To help sort out the options, we sent out a matrix with more than 70 decision points to a variety of PaaS providers.
