The greatest bottleneck in any large scale Hadoop deployment is the local network

Some random thoughts from Amazon’s second Cloud conference, re:Invent, in Las Vegas.

Here’s IBM, the enterprise’s vendor of choice, proving they're only too happy to flush enterprise customers down the toilet if it suits them.

Learn more about how Ant, in collaboration with JUnit, helps developers to follow the test-driven development approach.

The better Hadoop gets, the less of a Big Data tool it becomes.

Simply writing the phrase Big Data strategy indicates that you either don’t understand Big Data, or even worse, you don’t understand the word strategy.

If you are a developer or a designer, it is very likely that you will work in a team comprised of different people with different habits, motivation, work and coding styles. This article will provide a few simple tips that will make working in teams more efficient and productive.

If you still find that continuous build, continuous deployment, and continuous integration are too difficult, you’re not doing them properly.

Exposure on social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn has a tremendous impact on business, effecting marketing, networking, analytics and more. Social media is a natural resource for collecting user feedback, comments, suggestions, etc., making the integration of social media with applications increasingly important. This article will discuss the integration of Facebook and Twitter with a Java application.

Set up your Cloud environment to properly support the DevOps-driven lifecycle and you’ll be able to sleep soundly at night.