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A Good Architect Is Like a Good Parent

Parenting is perhaps the most difficult job any of us is likely to have in our lifetimes, and we earnestly do our best as a rule. And yet, some parenting

IBM SoftLayer Adds InfiniBand Support

IBM has announced that its SoftLayer cloud computing infrastructure now supports InfiniBand networking. Because InfiniBand can transfer data much more quickly than other types of networking connections, it’s the preferred

How to Speed Up Your Website

Website speed is one of the most important aspects of user’s browsing experience, especially for e-commerce websites. One study found that 57% of visitors close the page after waiting 3

Microsoft Reports Strong Cloud Computing Growth

For its fourth fiscal quarter of 2014, Microsoft has reported $23.38 billion in revenue and net income of $4.6 billion, beating analysts revenue predictions and coming in slightly below income

Cisco Courts Developers for DevNet

Cisco wants to get developers excited about software-defined networking (SDN), and to that end, it is touting its SDN developer program, known as DevNet. Since its launch last December, DevNet

Appcelerator Adds Enterprise Features

With 600,000 downloads to date, Appcelerator’s mobile development platform has become a very popular tool for building consumer-focused apps. Now the company is focusing on the enterprise. “I think there

Skewering Some Buzzword Baloney

Making up new words for old concepts – or using old words for new concepts – goes on all the time in the world of marketing, so you’d think we’d

Intro to Apache MapReduce 2 (YARN)

Since Hadoop version 0.23, MapReduce has changed significantly. It is now known as MapReduce 2.0 or YARN. MapReduce 2.0 is based on the concept of splitting the two major functionalities

Google is Hiring Hackers for Project Zero

Google has announced a new security effort called “Project Zero,” and it is hiring. Project Zero will look for zero-day vulnerabilities in all Internet-related software, not just Google applications. The

Apple, IBM Partner on Enterprise Mobility

On Tuesday, Apple and IBM announced a new partnership centered on enterprise mobile hardware, apps and related services. As part of the deal, IBM’s salespeople will sell Apple iPhones and

Oracle Debuts Big Data SQL

Recently, non-SQL data management solutions, such as Hadoop and NoSQL databases, have been getting lots of attention, but that doesn’t mean enterprises should write off SQL just yet. Oracle has

Report: Microsoft to Announce Major Job Cuts

Bloomberg is reporting that Microsoft is planning its biggest job reduction in history, based on information from unnamed sources. That would mean more than 5,800 people would lose their jobs

Developer Salaries and Bonuses Reach New Highs

A new report from online job board Dice.com reports a spike in companies offering bonuses to developers. About two-thirds of enterprises surveyed are offering bonuses to developers, with 10 percent

Google Takes its Cloud Show on the Road

Google has announced plans to conduct training events related to its cloud computing platform in eleven different cities in the United States and Canada. Aimed at developers, the event, dubbed

Exploring Apache Shark

Apache Shark is a distributed query engine developed by the open source community. This query engine is mainly used for Hadoop data and it provides enhanced performance and high-end analytical

Massachusetts Launches Open Cloud Project

The state of Massachusetts is teaming up with Harvard, MIT, UMass Amherst, Boston University and Northeastern University to create a cloud computing infrastructure marketplace. Called the “Massachusetts Open Cloud,” the

Architecture Technical Debt: The Curse of Agile?

Nowhere is the poor architect?s quest for respect more difficult than on Agile development teams. Even when Agilists admit the need for architecture, they begrudgingly call for the bare minimum

The Hacker Way Meets Agile Architecture

Sometimes random thoughts in the blogosphere coalesce into a strange synergy of ideas. When this happens, my natural impulse, of course, is to blog once more. In this case, no