economics

Links for December 23rd through December 26th

December 27, 2011

For Start-Ups, Sorting the Data Cloud Is the Next Big Thing – NYTimes.com – The amount of data being generated globally increases by 40 percent a year, according to the McKinsey Global Institute, the consulting firm’s research arm. And while Splunk has a lead in selling software to analyze machine data, big data is big [...]

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Links for November 4th through November 6th

November 6, 2011

The Netflix Tech Blog: Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS – Over a million writes per second – Netflix is using Cassandra on AWS as a key infrastructure component of its globally distributed streaming product. Cassandra scales linearly far beyond our current capacity requirements, and very rapid deployment automation makes it easy to manage. In particular, [...]

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Links for September 17th through September 20th

September 20, 2011

Video: Running Java Web Apps on the Cloud – Here is a quick screencast that shows how to instantly deploy Java web applications on the cloud with Heroku. New application layering and persistence choices in Spring Roo 1.2 | SpringSource Team Blog – The newly-released Spring Roo 1.2.0.M1 (see announcement) includes frequently requested support for [...]

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Links for August 24th through August 27th

August 27, 2011

Running MongoDB on the Cloud – In this video Jared Rosoff covers topics like scaling and performance characteristics of running MongoDB in the cloud and he also shares some best practices when using Amazon EC2. Why it is important to choose a #1 language for an enterprise project : Adam Bien’s Weblog – Why it [...]

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Links for May 16th through May 17th

May 18, 2011

Spring Roo 1.1.4 Released | SpringSource.org – We’re happy to announce the availability of Spring Roo 1.1.4 (download here). Spring Roo is a rapid application development tool for Java, allowing you to create full enterprise applications in just minutes. InfoQ: Five Static Code Audits Every Developer Should Know and Use – Mike Rozlog discusses the [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for April 2nd through April 3rd

April 3, 2011

As Big Data Takes Off, the Hadoop Wars Begin: Cloud Computing News « – It turns out "big data" isn’t just a buzzword, but a legitimate concern for companies across the board. The action is centered around Hadoop, the flagship technology for storing and processing large amounts of unstructured data. SharePoint: Is It Worth Using [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for March 30th through April 2nd

April 2, 2011

Google mobile search gets redesigned results for stocks – When you search for your favorite stock ticker symbol on your smartphone, you'll be presented with a result page that can be seen to the left in the image above. It displays an interactive graph on a 'card', and you can switch the amount of time [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for February 27th through March 2nd

March 3, 2011

Using the HTML5 Canvas Element with the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) | Giant Flying Saucer – With the release of the Google Web Toolkit 2.2 (GWT) they added experimental support for the HTML5 Canvas element. Looking over their sample application I was able to craft my own demo IBatis (MyBatis): Handling Joins: Advanced Result Mapping, [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for February 5th through February 7th

February 7, 2011

Researchers find possible solution for insulin dependence in type 1 diabetes – In what some are calling a potential cure for type 1 diabetes, researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center have found that suppressing a single hormone may make the condition completely asymptomatic and eliminate the need for insulin injections. Amazon Web Services Blog: Rack [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for September 14th through September 20th

September 20, 2010

Gartner Says Worldwide Enterprise Software Revenue to Surpass $232 Billion in 2010 – Worldwide enterprise software revenue is on pace to surpass $232 billion in 2010, a 4.5 percent increase from 2009 revenue of $222.4 billion, according to the latest forecast from Gartner, Inc. Chrome 7 Will Get 60 Times Faster, Google Says – PCWorld [...]

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