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Platform as a Service ready to rock the middleware market: Gartner

Brent Sordyl — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:13:43 +0000

Gartner analysts say 2011 was a pivotal year for the PaaS market. Broad vendor adoption in 2011 “amounted to a sound industry endorsement of PaaS as an alternative to the traditional middleware deployment models.”

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Survey: U.S. Smartphone Ownership Growth by Age and Income – Nielsen

Brent Sordyl — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:13:37 +0000

overall smartphone penetration stood at 48 percent in January, those in the 24-34 age group showed the greatest proportion of smartphone ownership, with 66 percent saying they had a smartphone.

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Review Board – Take the pain out of code review

Brent Sordyl — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:13:34 +0000

Review Board is a powerful web-based code review tool that offers developers an easy way to handle code reviews. It scales well from small projects to large companies and offers a variety of tools to take much of the stress and time out of the code review process.

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How to write good requirments

Brent Sordyl — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:13:32 +0000

Requirements are like software for the human brain. Try to make them easy to execute.

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Polyglot persistence at Pinterest: Redis, Membase, MySQL • myNoSQL

Brent Sordyl — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:13:20 +0000

python + heavily-modified Django at the application layer. Tornado and (very selectively) node.js as web-servers. Memcached and membase / redis for object- and logical-caching, respectively. RabbitMQ as a message queue. Nginx, HAproxy and Varnish for static-delivery and load-balancing. Persistent data storage using MySQL. MrJob on EMR for map-reduce.

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Amon – Server monitoring, simplified logging and error tracking for web apps

Brent Sordyl — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:56:41 +0000

Amon is a self-hosted, lightweight web application and server monitoring toolkit. It provides you with straightforward visualisation of essential server data. It helps you manage the errors that occur in your web applications and makes logging complex data structures and searching in your log data easy.

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Dealing With JVM Limitations in Apache Cassandra

Brent Sordyl — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:56:31 +0000

Jonathan Ellis’s slides presented at Fosdem 2012 are covering some of the problems with GC and the way Cassandra tackles them. While this is one of those presentations where the slides are not enough to understand the full picture, going through them will still give you a couple of good hints.

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JSHint – javascript static code analysis

Brent Sordyl — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:56:22 +0000

JSHint is a community-driven tool to detect errors and potential problems in JavaScript code and to enforce your team’s coding conventions.

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Func – a scriptable remote control framework and API intended to replace SSH

Brent Sordyl — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:56:17 +0000

Func is a secure, scriptable remote control framework and API. It is intended to replace SSH scripted infrastructure for a variety of datacenter automation tasks (such as taking hardware inventory, running queries, or executing remote commands) that are run against a large amount of systems at the same time. Func provides both a command line tool and a simple and powerful Python API. It is also intended to be very easy to integrate with your provisioning environment and tools like Cobbler.

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Private Gem Server in the Cloud – Gemfury

Brent Sordyl — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:56:14 +0000

Hosted service for your private and custom gems to simplify your deployment story. Once you upload your RubyGem and enable Gemfury as a source, you can securely deploy any gem to any host. It’s simple, reliable, and hassle-free. Learn more

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