Agile

Not a moment after the virtual ink dried on my recent blog post pointing out that the more mature Hadoop becomes, the less of a Big Data tool it is,

Some random thoughts from Amazon’s second Cloud conference, re:Invent, in Las Vegas. There are 9,000 attendees here, easily making it one of the largest Cloud conferences ever. But the crowd

The burgeoning Cloud marketplace generates so much noise and smoke that it’s unusual a significant event doesn’t create a hullabaloo. But that’s just what happened when IBM abruptly announced the

Among the big news in the world of Big Data is the impending release of Hadoop 2, a major refactoring of the popular Big Data processing tool. This release is

As the market gradually settles on a clearer definition of Big Data, and as the tools that target Big Data mature, more and more organizations are seeing the value in

Back in the good (bad?) old days, developers wrote code and chucked it over the wall to QA for testing. The QA folks in turn chucked it over the wall

 I met with a client today who is trying to move to a DevOps model for software delivery. One question they asked caught me off guard: how do you deal

Eric Raymond coined the phrase The Cathedral and the Bazaar in his 1997 book of the same name, referring to the differences between the traditional, top-down approach to building software

I had an informative call with Jonathan Bryce, the Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation today. He went over the features of OpenStack’s new Havana release. Good stuff – but