Imagine, if you will, applying a kernel patch to your production servers in the middle of the day, during peak transaction periods, and not … missing … a beat. Imagine that same update not requiring you to suffer downtime as the server reboots to apply the patch. These are ideas from the future, right? Wrong.…
Day: November 19, 2014
Node.js in Flames: Performance Testing Netflix's New Web App
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•We’ve been busy building our next-generation Netflix.com web application using Node.js. You can learn more about our approach from the presentation we delivered at NodeConf.eu a few months ago. Today, I want to share some recent learnings from performance tuning this new application stack. We were first clued in to a possible issue when we noticed that…
Australian news agency joins open source project
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•Open source software developer Sourcefabric has signed Australian Associated Press to help develop an end-to-end news creation, production, curation, distribution and publishing platform. The two parties are inviting other news publishers to participate in the project, called Superdesk. Source: Tech
Jolla crowdfunds tablet in a couple of hours
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•Jolla, the Finnish outfit that launched a smartphone based on its Sailfish OS a year ago, started a crowdfunding campaign for its first tablet on Wednesday – and surpassed its goal in a couple of hours. Granted, it wasn’t the highest of goals – $380,000 – but the achievement is nothing to be sneezed at.…
Open Metrical Psalm project and Beginners Guide to GitHub
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•It has been a little too long since I launched CMAA’s GitHub presence , and since then there has not been as much activity as I would have hoped. We’re all busy people, and I know it isn’t exactly apparent to everyone why or how GitHub or an Open Source approach to the creation music…
Most IT Pros Rank Organizational Security Above Average
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•Nearly 30 percent do not believe they’re are a target for an attack and another 27 percent said they feel they are at low risk of a successful attack. Read more at eWeek Source: Linux
How to channel the spirit of farming into your open food code
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•In the local food movement, open source principles are very much like the open pollinated seeds that farmers keep to grow next year’s crops. When farmers use their own seeds, they are in control of breeding and conserving for the future. Source: Tech
Top Five Enterprise Technology Trends for 2015
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•What technological trends can we expect to shape the enterprise in 2015? According to predictions released by US carrier Verizon, strategic network investments will be a top priority for chief information officers (CIOs) working in the corporate world next year, as more and more companies seek to make sense of Big Data, profit from the internet of…