By Steven Nunez Storm, a top-level Apache project, is a Java framework designed to help programmers write real-time applications that run on Hadoop clusters. Designed at Twitter, Storm excels at processing high-volume message …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: April 2015
Who’s behind Linux now, and should you be afraid?
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•By Paul Rubens If you think that Linux is still the “rebel code”– the anti-establishment, software-just-wants-to-be-free operating system developed by independent programmers working on their own time — then it’s time to think …read more Source:: OpenSource
The Culture of Freedom: Free Software, Free Speech
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•By editor@techworld.com (Glyn Moody) A few weeks ago, I spoke at this year’s WordCamp London. My theme was free software and free speech. The first part of my talk was a quick run-through free …read more Source:: Open Source
Hello Geode: Pivotal GemFire is now open source
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Making good on its promise from earlier in the year, Pivotal has released as open source the distributed in-memory database that powers GemFire, a featured part of Pivotal’s Big Data …read more Source:: OpenSource
Facebook gives in on patent grant
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•By Simon Phipps Late Friday, Facebook announced it’s finally giving in to pressure from the open source community and fixed its open source patent grant. While most …read more Source:: OpenSource
Brand resilience: Risk pros’ key role in protecting company reputation
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•By editor@techworld.com (Forrester Analysts) Risk professionals aren’t prepared for the age of the customer. Empowered consumers and changing market dynamics are upending longstanding business models and lines of operation, but risk professionals largely stand …read more Source:: Open Source
Every company now a software company, continued
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•Financial services marches into the software business. …read more Source:: it-priorities
20 techniques for designing great user experiences
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•Positive user experiences don’t happen by accident. Research is needed to better understand what users are seeking. …read more Source:: it-priorities
Three forces are fueling microservices architectures
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•The microservices concept has been around for some time; what makes things so different today? …read more Source:: it-priorities
Dell leans on own MDM software with new Venue 10 7000 tablet
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•Selling a tablet as an enterprise-friendly device is becoming harder by the day, so it takes some extra handiwork inside and out to stand out from the pack. …read more Source:: it-priorities