By Serdar Yegulalp Heron, the real-time stream-processing system Twitter devised as a replacement for Apache Storm, is finally being open-sourced after powering Twitter for more than two years. Twitter explained in a …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: May 2016
Spark 2.0 prepares to catch fire
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•By Ian Pointer Apache Spark 2.0 is almost upon us. If you have an account on Databricks’ cloud offering, you can get access to a technical preview today; for the rest …read more Source:: OpenSource
Dropbox wants to speed up Python with Pyston 0.5
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•By Serdar Yegulalp After months of silence, the Pyston project — a Dropbox-sponsored initiative to create a high-performance, JIT-compiling Python runtime — has announced a new version. The bad news: Pyston 0.5 is …read more Source:: OpenSource
Unlicensed software use still rampant in Asia: BSA
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•Some 61 percent of installed software were unlicensed in 2015, resulting in a loss value of US$19.1 billion, according to Business Software Alliance. …read more Source:: Legal
​Queensland Premier to probe health payroll
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•A month after burying its AU$1.2 billion payroll bungle with IBM, the Queensland government is now looking into another debacle concerning payment errors for nursing staff at Queensland health. …read more Source:: Legal
IDG Contributor Network: Why are Chromebooks outselling Macs?
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•By Jim Lynch Why are Chromebooks outselling Macs? The recent news that Chromebooks have started to outsell Macs for the first time came as a shock to some people. Chromebooks clearly have …read more Source:: OpenSource
Open source job market booming
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•By Sharon Florentine Recruiting open source talent is a top priority for IT recruiters and hiring managers in 2016. According to the 2016 Open Source Jobs …read more Source:: OpenSource
Open source tool manages AWS Lambda apps
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•By Serdar Yegulalp A new open source project from Express and Node.js-canvas creator TJ Holowaychuk lets developers create, deploy, and manage AWS Lambda functions from a command-line tool. Apex, written …read more Source:: OpenSource
Fifield did not tell Turnbull about AFP investigation into NBN leaked docs
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•Australian Communications Minister Mitch Fifield has said that while he was aware of the investigation of leaked NBN documents by the Federal Police, he did not tell other ministers or …read more Source:: Legal
Python 3, Ruby, Rust, and JavaScript algorithms are now welcome on Algorithmia
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Algorithmia, a marketplace for building algorithms and monetizing them as APIs, has added support for four widely used languages: JavaScript, Python 3, Rust, and Ruby. When it originally launched …read more Source:: OpenSource