What Exactly is DevOps?
The latest trend in software development is the culture of DevOps, in which developers partner with operations staff to assure that software runs with a minimum of problems. - Architecture & Design
Articles
Comparing OpenCL, CUDA, and OpenACC [video]
Rob Farber takes you on a tour of the paths to massively parallel x86, MultiGPU, and CPU+GPU applications. - Parallel
Building Scalable Web Architecture and Distributed Systems
Like most things in life, taking the time to plan ahead when building a Web service can help in the long run. - Web Development
Introduction to OpenACC [video]
Using OpenACC to write your first hybrid application - Parallel
The Best of 2012
The most popular articles of the past 12 months from Dr. Dobb's, plus some additional pieces chosen for your thoughtful consideration by our staff. - Design
Developer Reading List
New books on C, C#, Node, Win8 Apps, Perl and Groovy. - Design
Initializing Derived Polymorphic Objects
Each class in a hierarchy of polymorphic objects should have a function that initializes its vptr properly. - C/C++
CUDA vs. Phi: Phi Programming for CUDA Developers
Both CUDA and Phi coprocessors provide high degrees of parallelism that can deliver excellent application performance. For the most part, CUDA programmers with existing application code have already written their software so it can run well on Phi coprocessors. However, additional work may be required to achieve the highest possible performance. - Parallel
Access Data with REST in Windows 8 Apps
Develop and consume a REST service that provides data to a Windows Store app that uses the Grid app — using C# and XAML. - .NET
Best of the Web
Amazon's Vogels Challenges IT: Rethink App Dev
Amazon Web Services CTO says promised land of cloud computing requires a new generation of applications that follow different principles.
Reverse-engineering legacy ANSI C codebases
Start with the data structures, then document the APIs, then...
Exclusive: Anatomy Of A Brokerage IT Meltdown
Regulators last year issued the SEC's first-ever privacy fine against broker-dealer GunnAllen for failing to protect customer data. But former IT staffers say regulators didn't seem to know half of this cautionary tale of outsourcing and oversight gone wrong.
Triple Buffering as A Concurrency Mechanism
Triple Buffering is a way of passing data between a producer and a consumer running at different rates. It ensures that the consumer sees only complete data with minimal lag.
OpenStack: An Overview
The latest release of OpenStack, which goes by the code name Folsom, adds two additional modules to the mix: Quantum and Cinder
Events of Interest
Febrary 21, 2013. San Diego, CA. Hadoop Innovation Summit
February 22-24, 2013. Los Angeles, CA. SCALE 11x
February 24-March 2, 2013. Portland, OR. ApacheCon North America 2013
February 25-March 1, 2013. Montreal, Canada. ConFoo
March 3-6, 2013. San Francisco, CA. SPTechCon: SharePoint Technology Conference
March 18-19, 2013. Redwood City, CA. Developer Relations Conference
March 18-21, 2013. San Jose, CA. GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2013
March 25-28, 2013. Boston, MA. EclipseCon
April 8-10, 2013. Cambridge, MA. Big Data TechCon
April 8-12, 2013. Austin, TX. Xamarin Evolve 2013
April 16-17, 2013. Seattle, WA. Business & Technology Solutions Summit 2013: Cloud and Big Data Conference and Expo
April 28-May 3, 2013. Las Vegas, NV. IBM Software Impact 2013
May 14-15, 2013. San Francisco, CA. Security Development Conference
May 28-30, 2013. San Francisco, CA. O'Reilly Fluent Conference
April 22-25, 2013. San Jose, CA. DESIGN West and Embedded Systems Conference
June 18-20, 2013. Santa Clara, CA. O'Reilly Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference
August 20-21, 2013. Raleigh, NC. Business and Technology Solutions Summit 2013: Cloud and Big Data Conference and Expo
October 1-3, 2013. San Francisco, CA. Atlassian Summit 2013
Videos of Recent Events
September 2012. Strangeloop
September 2012. Intel Developer Forum
August 2012. VMWorld
July 2012. Java Language Summit
June 2012. Google I/O 2012
May 2012. Atlassian Summit
May 2012 (paid). Fluent Conference
March 2012. Multicore World
July 2011. JVM Language Summit
