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Bryan Pendleton: Nice Netflix paper on High-Availability Storage
Sid Anand, a Netflix engineer who writes an interesting blog, recently published a short, very readable paper entitled Netflix's Transition to High-Availability Storage Systems. If you've been...
View ArticleJames Duncan: ◼ Animals on the Runway
I was listening to air traffic control earlier tonight while landing in Denver. Usually, ATC is all business, especially when your talking about the approach and departure controllers at a major hub...
View ArticleJames Duncan: ◼ A Thousand Miles Short
The last two years have been heavy travel years for me. Last year, I tipped the scales at over 90,000 so-called elite qualifying miles on United and Star Alliance airlines. These EQMs count for status...
View ArticleRodent of Unusual Size (Ken Coar): Playing catch-up
Wherein I blog about multiple topics that I meant to blog about before. ApacheCon ApacheCon in Atlanta totally rocked. Not only did I get to see a lot of people from the past, but I got to meet some...
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Edward J. Yoon: NoHadoop? NoMapReduce?
Beyond Hadoop: Next-Generation Big Data Architectures, Oct. 23, 2010 After seen this post, I bought the domains nohadoop.org and nomapreduce.org to build a community and share knowledges about these...
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Bryan Pendleton: CUDA in the cloud
Amazon have announced that EC2 now supports GPU clusters using CUDA programming. That might just be a bunch of gobbledygook so let's expand a little bit:EC2 is Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, one of...
View ArticleRodent of Unusual Size (Ken Coar): OpenSSL, OpenLDAP, and Rails -- oh my!
I'd like to start off with a safety note: If you're going to tap your foot to the beat, don't use the foot that's on the accelerator. Now, onward. I've been futzing for a long time with getting an...
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Hiranya Jayathilaka: SOA Meets the Cloud
We just released WSO2 Stratos v1.0.0, the SOA PaaS solution based on WSO2 Carbon. Stratos enables you to run WSO2 middleware on a cloud infrastructure in a completely multi tenanted environment. This...
View ArticleMatt Raible: AppFuse 2.1 Milestone 2 Released
I'm pleased to announce the 2nd milestone release of AppFuse 2.1. This release includes upgrades to all dependencies to bring them up-to-date with their latest releases. Most notable are Spring 3 and...
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Brett Porter: Will you be at BarCamp Apache Sydney, December 11?
In case you’ve missed it, we’ve announced a BarCamp that will be running at the University of Sydney on Saturday 11th December, with a meal the night beforehand. It is a free event, so you just need to...
View ArticleShane Curcuru: Oracle’s three missing words…
… “open source compatible”. The Oracle reply to the ASF’s position on the Java 7 vote really doesn’t say much at all, now does it? Everyone understands the point, right? Oracle refuses to play ball by...
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Bertrand Delacretaz: Why the ASF disagrees with Oracle, straight from the...
An Anonymous Coward (as they call them) on Slashdot provides the clearest explanation I’ve seen so far. I’m only quoting the original comment here, see the discussion on Slashdot for follow-ups: The...
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Ben Laurie: Apache vs. Oracle
As a founder of the Apache Software Foundation I have long been frustrated by the ASF’s reluctance to confront Sun and now Oracle head-on over their continued refusal to allow Apache Harmony to proceed...
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Ian Boston: Sparse Map Content Store
While doing soak tests and endless failed release candidates for the Sakai3/Sakai OAE/Nakamura Q1 release I have been experimenting with a content store. This work was triggered by a desire to have...
View ArticleSteve Loughran: The end of WS-I
Back in 2006, I posted the end of SOAP. Some people thought my claim, that Slowly, all over the world, the lights on the SOAP endpoints are going out was premature. Actually, prescient was the correct...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2010-11-16
GitHub outage post-mortem : continuous-integration system was accidentally run against the production db. result: the entire production database got wiped. ouuuuch (tags: ouch github outages...
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Nick Kew: Taking on the rich and powerful
It’s too early to tell whether they’ll have any success where previous governments have failed. But the current government’s announcements have once again impressed me. They’re taking on some of our...
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Robert Burrell Donkin: Open Source: Census
Today, the open source census stands at: Top 20 Open Source Packages Rank Package Installs Prevalence 1firefox376182% 2zlib311867% 3wget300065% 4xerces249454% 5prototype245053% 6eclipse242852%...
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Luciano Resende: Apache Wink 1.1.2-incubating released
The Apache Wink project is pleased to announce the release of Apache Wink 1.1.2-incubating.Apache Wink is a simple yet solid framework for building RESTful Web services. It is comprised of a Server...
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Daniel Kulp: Patriots Season Ticket Holder!
This morning, I checked my email and I received a very exciting email. Here is the first paragraph: Welcome! You are now a New England Patriots Season Ticket Holder! We are excited to have you as the...
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