Splunk, the log analysis system that’s evolved into a full-blown, machine-generated data processing platform (also described as “Google for visual analytics”), faces competition from a rising wave of open source competitors. One of the most prominent, Graylog, has unveiled its formal 1.0 release. Graylog’s success won’t be in meeting or exceeding Splunk’s feature set or …
Right now, you get most of your Linux software from your distribution’s software repositories. Those applications have to be packaged specifically for your Linux distribution, and you have to trust them with full access to your Linux user account and all its files.But imagine if developers could distribute applications in a standard way so you …
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Someone recently asked me about this technique and my first reaction was that it was probably a little too mundane to cover as a tutorial. But then I got to thinking that there is actually a few interesting things happening here and the style is trendy enough people might be interested. via Text Blocks Over …
An example on how to replace Grails views gsp and controllers by Angular FrameworkAngular being more and more popular I decided to try using it for one of my new projects. As I’m starting to learn Angular, I followed the excellent tutorial on the Angular website http://docs.angularjs.org/tutorial. In this tutorial there is no particular backend, …
Cyclic Garbage Collection Enter something called a cyclic garbage collector.Basically, this is a function which will try to detect those circular references. We call it cyclic, because it’s generalized to not just handle circular references, but handle any kind of Cycle. So how does it work? Collecting Cycles I’m going to describe this backwards. I’m …
Over the past five years or so, NoSQL databases have enjoyed a spike in popularity compared to relational i.e., SQL-driven databases, thanks in large part to industries such as online gaming. A typical NoSQL database can write data 10 or 20 times faster than a relational one, although this speed comes at a price: The …
Looking for a nice little burst of nostalgia on this fine Saturday evening? Don’t feel like going through the process of installing MAME and lurking for ROMs, but still want to get your classic arcade on? Back in December of last year, the Internet Archive (in their effort to backup the entire digital world, one …