Hadoop is a MapReduce framework that has literally sprung into the vernacular of “big data” developers everywhere. But coding to the raw Hadoop APIs can be a real chore. Data analysts can express what they want in more English-like vocabularies, but it seems the Hadoop APIs require us to be …
An interview with Emmanuel Stapf, head of the Compiler Division at Eiffel Software, to briefly discuss what’s new in Eiffel. Eiffel is an object-oriented language that is based on a fixed set of powerful principles like Design by Contract and Command-Query Separation. It’s a very powerful language that has impacted …
Big data’s ancestor is the Very Large DataBase (VLDB) and we’ve been doing VLDBs in SQL Server for years. Making the jump from managing 10-100GB databases to the terabyte level can be intimidating, but in this video shares lessons he learned along the way so you don’t have to get …
The Google Build System, is used by Google engineers to build software from a unified, language-agnostic, continuously integrated code base, quickly and at scale. When a developer initiates a build, the build system automatically computes the minimal number of artifacts that need to be built and determines the optimal strategy …
Sometimes, you don’t require a high-quality templating solution, but still need to keep from mixing lots of nasty HTML into your JavaScript. In these cases, a simple, makeshift templating system can go a long way.
This video explores how far we’ve come, what is just around the corner, and a peer into the future of users of the OSGi platform. OSGi has been around for over a decade, although its big popularity boost occurred when it became the runtime platform for Eclipse 3.0 in 2004. …
