I write a lot about Hadoop, for the obvious reason that it’s the biggest thing going on right now. Last year everyone was talking about it — and this year everyone is rolling it out. Some are still in the installation and deployment phase. Some are in the early implementation phases. Some have already used …
This document provides a pattern for doing multi-document updates or “transactions” using a two-phase commit approach for writing data to multiple documents. Additionally, you can extend this process to provide a rollback like functionality. via Perform Two Phase Commits — MongoDB Manual 2.6.1.
Postgres-XL is an all-purpose fully ACID open source scale-out SQL database solution. via Postgres-XL | Open Source Scalable SQL Database Cluster.
As you may have seen from our previous performance oriented articles, a healthy JVM is one of the most important goals to achieve for optimal application performance and stability. Such health assessment is very often only focusing on the frequency avoidance of major collections or detecting the presence of memory leaks. What about the sizing …
Medical experts who refuse to use low-energy lightbulbs to protect against skin cancer and blindness | Mail Online.
Common Java Myths | Java Code Geeks.
LibreS3, a robust Open Source implementation of the Amazon S3 service, has just been released! Standard S3 client libraries and tools (for example python-boto, s3cmd, DragonDisk, etc.) can be used to access it. LibreS3 uses Skylable Sx as the storage backend, which automatically provides data deduplication and replication. Source code and binary packages are available. …
Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don’t: Traditional rewards aren’t always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories — and maybe, a way forward. via Dan Pink: The puzzle of motivation | Talk Video | TED.com.
The Indie Revolution: How little games are making big money – GameAcademy.com.
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