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  • The Quiet Revolution in Programming

    The Quiet Revolution in Programming: during the last 24 months, the sheer volume of change in the computing paradigm has been so great that programming has felt its imprint right away. Multiple programming paradigms are changing simultaneously: the ubiquity of mobile apps; the enormous rise of HTML and JavaScript front-ends; and the advent of big…

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  • Dataguise Presents 10 Best Practices for Securing Sensitive Data in Hadoop

    Dataguise Presents 10 Best Practices for Securing Sensitive Data in Hadoop. Yeah, you gotta hop over to read it at myNoSQL…

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  • Two-Step Verification Will End Consensual Impersonation

    Two-Step Verification Will End Consensual Impersonation: IT security pros are typically delighted to do away with employees’ option for consensual impersonation, and indeed, privileged identity management systems work really hard to make it impossible for those with superuser powers to do. But I suspect the consumer world isn’t quite ready for widespread two-step verification that…

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  • Don’t panic! Here’s how to quickly scale your mobile apps

    Don’t panic! Here’s how to quickly scale your mobile apps: We dubbed it “our Christmas,” the day when all our good engineering deeds would pay off and we’d be rewarded with a bounty of happy active users for our mobile app, Avocado. Nice one, if your mobile app is growing like crazy. Via Check Yourself…

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  • HP Pins Big Hopes on Today’s Launch of Project Moonshot

    HP Pins Big Hopes on Today’s Launch of Project Moonshot: When the definitive story looking back on the effort to turn around the flailing technology giant Hewlett-Packard is written, today may be seen as a turning point, perhaps for the good, perhaps not so good. But, as it turned out, HP’s Moonshot Gives Analysts a…

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  • MySQL and the forks in the road

    MySQL and the forks in the road: At the beginning of 2008 Sun Microsystems purchased MySQL AB, and ever since then there have been divisions in the ecosystem. As with any software community or ecosystem, where there are divisions there are usually forks, both in the community and the software itself. MySQL history lesson.

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  • When Will SSD Have Same Price as HDD

    When Will SSD Have Same Price as HDD: The retail price for 256GB and 512GB SSDs has been dropping at a linear rate since 2010. In comparison, HDD pricing and new technology introductions have been stagnant. The HDD industry’s highest capacity in a 2.5″ 2-disk configuration has been the same 1TB for the last 3+…

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  • How ICIJ’s Project Team Analyzed the Offshore Files

    How ICIJ’s Project Team Analyzed the Offshore Files: The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists’ exploration of the secretive world of offshore companies and trusts began after a computer hard drive packed with corporate data and personal information and e-mails arrived in the mail. Interesting case of large scale data analysis in a volunteer organization

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  • Meet DSSD, Andy Bechtolsheim’s secret chip startup for big data

    Meet DSSD, Andy Bechtolsheim’s secret chip startup for big data: My sources tell me the startup is building a new type of chip — they said it’s really a module, not a chip — that combines a small amount of processing power with a lot of densely-packed memory. The module runs a pared-down version of…

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  • The Consistency Alphabet Soup

    The Consistency Alphabet Soup: It seems that newcomers to distributed systems are often confused by the various definitions of the C-word. I want to go over them to draw a distinction that is often overlooked, without getting into the tired old arguments around eventual consistency. Specifically, I want to expand on the distinction between properties…

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