As evident from the TechEmpower Benchmarks, Java is significantly (often orders of magnitude) faster than other, more developer-friendly web frameworks like Django, Rails, or node.js. This means that you disadvantage yourself by creating web startups using these technologies, as scaling becomes a problem quite quickly, and scaling is not an easy problem to solve. Sparkler …
CIO — Hot on the heels of Facebooks release of its Presto distributed SQL query engine to the open source community earlier this month, the social networking giant was back at it today—this time open sourcing RocksDB, an embedded, high-performance, single-node database engine. via Facebook Open Sources Its Embedded Database Code – CIO.com.
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MENLO PARK, California — Each month, Facebook puts up advertisements for new coding projects on its internal network. They’re called Hack-a-Month-Projects. The idea is simple. Engineering staff can try working on new problems, and if they end up liking what they’re doing, they get to switch teams. via Facebook Touts Gear That Will Reinvent the …
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I recently covered the release of Dropbox platform and my thoughts on the impending cloud storage lock-in. I was also fortunate enough to run across what the guys over at NimbusBase are doing over the weekend. They seem to be the answer to the open API for mobile and web applications, providing a cross-cloud storage …
The Magic of Presto Presto is a distributed SQL query engine—now an open source distributed SQL query engine—optimized for running ad-hoc interactive analytic queries against data sources ranging in size from gigabytes to petabytes. It is designed to allow organizations to query data where it lives. A single Presto query can combine data from multiple …
Optimizing AngularJS: 1200ms to 35ms | Scalyr Blog.