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Windows 10 Now on Nearly 10% of PCs

According to the latest figures from Net Analytics’ Netmarketshare, Windows 10 has captured 9.96 percent of the worldwide operating system market. That’s a 0.96 percent increase from last month, but

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Comparing Analytics Platforms: Azure vs. AWS, Part II

In the first part of this series?comparing the competing analytics platform offerings from Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS, we explored Azure Analytics Platform System and AWS Redshift. In this post,

How to Create a Custom jQuery Plugin

jQuery is a powerful library which makes writing JavaScript code much easier. One of its main features is the possibility of extending default functionality with custom plugins. In this article,

Report: Windows 10 Will Feature a New Browser

Citing unnamed sources and VLC developer Thomas Nigro, Mary Jo Foley from ZDNet is reporting that Microsoft is working on a new, lightweight browser codenamed Spartan. The sources say Windows

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The 5 Worst Software Vulnerabilities of 2014

This past year was notable for the number of critical security vulnerabilities that researchers discovered in widely used software. Several of these recently discovered bugs created major headaches for enterprise

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The Evolution of Config Files from INI to TOML

Configuration files (a.k.a config) are files that contain different options that programs can read and let you control the operation of the program without making code changes. Back in the

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Comparing Analytics Platforms: Azure vs. AWS

With the leading cloud providers now racing against time to complete their offerings in the analytics space, enterprises are spoilt for choice. Not only are there many offerings to choose

Microsoft Buys Metanautix Analytics Startup

Microsoft has expanded its big data analytics portfolio by acquiring a Palo Alto-based analytics startup called Metanautix. The firm makes technology that allows enterprises to create pools of data from

Cross-platform Development in C# with Xamarin

C# is a fantastic programming language and .NET is a fantastic runtime. It was developed by Microsoft as an answer to Sun’s Java at the dawn of the previous millennium

CloudFoundry Announces PaaS Certification Program

CloudFoundry has launched a certification program aimed at ensuring portability across various vendors with platform as a service (PaaS) offerings based on CloudFoundry code. Already, several cloud computing vendors, including

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Find Compilation Time (in nanosecond, microsecond & millisecond) of any code (C, C++, JAVA & all others) & Execution Time of any Command

This is a C source code, written in gcc platform (Ubuntu, Linux). It finds the Compilation time of any Source code (like C, C++, Java & all others) as well as the Execution time of any command of Ubuntu in three time units, i.e nanosecond, microsecond & millisecond.  Note: Let I want to find compilation time of a Java source code using this C source code. Hence Java compiler must be installed in the machine. The following C source code: #include #include #include #include  int main(){   struct timespec ts1;   struct timespec ts2;   char str[20];    printf(” Compile the code/ Execute the Commamnd: “);   fgets(str, sizeof str, stdin);    clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, &ts1);   system (str);   clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, &ts2);    if (ts2.tv_nsec    {       ts2.tv_nsec= ts2.tv_nsec+ pow(10,9);            printf(” Compilation time: Nanosecond: %ld Microsecond: %ld Millisecond: %ld “, (ts2.tv_nsec – ts1.tv_nsec),  (ts2.tv_nsec – ts1.tv_nsec)/1000, (ts2.tv_nsec – ts1.tv_nsec)/1000000);   }   else      printf(” Compilation time: Nanosecond: %ld Microsecond: %ld Millisecond: %ld “, (ts2.tv_nsec – ts1.tv_nsec),  (ts2.tv_nsec – ts1.tv_nsec)/1000, (ts2.tv_nsec – ts1.tv_nsec)/1000000);    return 0;}  

VMware Abandons Virtustream Deal with EMC

Eight days after Dell and EMC announced their merger plans, EMC and VMware announced plans for a cloud computing services joint venture that would be called Virtustream. However, VMware (which

Report: Cloud Computing Adoption Rises 71%

A new Bitglass study of data from more than 120,000 organizations has found that cloud computing adoption climbed 71 percent between 2014 and 2015. Interestingly, cloud adoption grew twice as

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Scaling Your Project with Agile Micro Services

Micro service architectures gain a lot of mindshare recently for good reasons. Let’s assume you did the hard work and you have switched your system to use micro services. What

What Do Software Engineers Make Across the Country?

San Francisco-based employment firm Hired has published a new report detailing average software engineer salaries in cities across the U.S. It also used a standard-of-living calculator to determine what developers

Java 9 Postponed Until March 2017

The release of Java 9 has been postponed by six months. According to the new schedule the next update of the Java Development Kit (JDK) will be feature complete on

IBM to Focus on Java, Node.js and Swift

IBM believes the future of enterprise application development hinges on three key programming languages: Java, Node.js/JavaScript and Swift. While the company’s Bluemix cloud development platform will continue to support a

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Flexiant Launches Kubernetes Orchestration as a Service

Get Kubernetes on any cloud, in minutes with Flexiant Concerto London, UK ??? December 9, 2015 ??? Kubernetes is a powerful tool to manage a cluster of Linux containers as a single system to accelerate Dev and simplify Ops. Today Flexiant launches Kubernetes Orchestration as a Service (KOaaS). Enabling DevOps to use Kubernetes on any cloud, in minutes, Flexiant Concerto lets you get creative without any pain. Launch a Kubernetes Cluster in Three StepsLaunch a cluster in three simple steps either via the Flexiant Concerto GUI or CLI, saving time and effort, allowing activity to be focused on the creative side of Kubernetes. Use Any Cloud, Avoiding Cloud Lock-InDeploy a master or node on any cloud provider by simply specifying which cloud the workload should be deployed on when creating the VM in Flexiant Concerto. The rest of the process is fully automated. Publically Expose Services on a Kubernetes ClusterSave time and complexity when publicly exposing a Kubernetes Cluster. Automatically install a load balancer on every node and allocate a Fully Qualified Domain Name to the group of load balancers, automatically exposing the services running on a cluster to the Internet with Flexiant Concerto. Setting up Networking within the ClusterConcerto’s in-built integration with Weave quickly and simply gives SDN connectivity needed for intra-cluster communication. This removes the complexity associated with setting it up and saves time. Secure Access to Manage via CLI, GUI or APIConsume all Kubernetes functionality via the Flexiant Concerto UI over HTTPS, or via the Kubectl CLI wrapper/API with built-in X.509 certification. Secure access is automatically applied. Moreover Kubernetes clusters set up in Concerto have firewall policies in place to maximize security – only Kubernetes services and Kubernetes and Docker API end points are open, giving all required security of access out of the box. Minimize Latency for Services on a ClusterThe built-in GeoDNS service in Flexiant Concerto automatically load balances traffic across nodes in different geographies according to the location of the user, keeping latency to an absolute minimum. Marco Meinardi, VP Product at Flexiant said, ???We are Kubernetes enthusiasts with the aim of helping developers get started easily with Kubernetes, build highly scalable microservices or distributed application stacks. Kubernetes Orchestration as a Service allows developers to get Kubernetes on any cloud, easily. The result is more time to focus on the creative side of Kubernetes.??? To get Kubernetes as a Service, sign up here: https://start.concerto.io/accounts/sign_up and enter promo code FLEXK8S for 10 free VMs. Once signed up, simply go to Settings – Account and click to enable beta features. Find out what else Kubernetes as a Service offers here: https://www.flexiant.com/2015/12/09/flexiant-kubernetes-orchestration-as-a-service 

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Tips for Unit Testing with Mocks

Unit testing is a well established practice to ensure your code actually does what it’s supposed to do. If you have good test coverage — most of your code has tests that