Feature Articles
Heterogeneous Programming
AMD's Ben Sander shares details about the heterogeneous system architecture (HSA) and how it will change the way people program in the future.
Easy, Real-Time Big Data Analysis Using Storm
Conceptually straightforward and easy to work with, Storm makes handling big data analysis a breeze.
Scaling Up And Out
Most attention today is focused on adding nodes or cloud instances to scale out systems. Guest editor Nikita Shamgunov emphasizes the importance of scaling systems vertically as well.
AMD's Bold ARM Server Gambit
By combining 64-bit ARM processors with server-side technology, the company that led the x86 architecture into the 64-bit world is hoping to reinvent the data center and give itself new life.
Migrating from Subversion to Git and the Lessons Learned
How Atlassian moved a code base of 21,000 files with more than 47,000 commits on its best-selling product from Subversion to Git without stopping the development workflow.
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
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
