Blogs

August 08, 2012

Wall Street and the Mismanagement of Software

How Knight Capital becomes a knight errant when it came to software design and delivery.

April 26, 2012

Java 7u4, JavaFX 2.1, and NetBeans 7.1.2

Garbage First (G1) garbage collector, Mac support, a brand new JVM implementation, and more goodies.

March 01, 2012

Information Storage and Retrieval: From MEDLARS to Twitter

Each decade, technology breakthroughs update our lexicon with new words and phrases.




Database

Database Feature Articles RSS

Pydoop: Writing Hadoop Programs in Python

Installed as a layer above Hadoop, the open-source Pydoop package enables Python scripts to do big data work easily.

Through A PRISM Darkly

The revelation of secret government eavesdropping is likely to substantially reshape companies' understanding of their data's safety.

Acquiring Big Data Using Apache Flume

Data analysis is only half the battle; getting the data into a Hadoop cluster is the first step in any Big Data deployment. Apache Flume uses an elegant design to make data loading easy and efficient.

Detailed Profiling of SQL Activity in MySQL 5.6

MySQL's latest update to the Performance Schema brings the ability to profile a statement's activity, low-level wait events, and I/O impact. It is the easiest and most detailed way to identify what statements to tune and how.

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.

Database News RSS

Java EE 7 Suits The Polyglot Programmer

Support for HTML 5 and developer productivity

Red Hat Embraces Web Language Spectrum

Red Hat Software Collections 1.0 arrives in beta

Oracle Application Development Framework Mobile Arrives

Java-based mobile development framework that supports iOS and Android

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

Events of Interest

June 24-28. San Jose, CA. 2013 USENIX Annual Technical 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

Ocotber 23-25. San Fransisco, CA. API Strategy and Practice Conference

October 28-30. London, United Kingdom. JAXLondon 2013 Big Data Conference


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



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