November 7, 2013

Facebook has released the source code for Presto, its interactive SQL-on-Hadoop engine, under an open source license. First introduced in June, Presto is said to average ten times faster than Hive, the popular Facebook-created data warehouse framework for Hadoop. The social network says that more than 1,000 of its employees

How important is it for agile application development teams to have fun together? InfoQ recently collected a variety of opinions on the topic. The majority seem to concur that a little bit of fun makes teams more efficient and collaborative. For example, Alex Krause says, “If you fill in a