December 15, 2014

Coverity has released its annual report on code quality, and this year’s study holds good news for open source big data tools. Among the open source big data tools examined, 62 percent had defect density rates (DDRs) below 2.72, which is the average DDR for Java projects. Big data tools

In keeping with its plans to open source much of its .NET development platform, Microsoft has announced that it plans to release its Orleans programming model under an open source license. Microsoft’s Halo development teams have been using Orleans in conjunction with its Azure cloud computing platform for several years,