A day after Tobi's tweet, O'Reilly Radar posted Why We Need Go , an article featuring a video interview with Google developer, Canadian geek, co-creator of UTF-8 and one of the co-creators of Go, Rob Pike:
A couple of days after that, Jordan Orelli posted Why I Went From Python to Go (and Not Node.js) on his blog. As a Python programmer searching for a suitable way to write concurrent server-side code, he was disappointed with his options:
...concurrency …
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Edd Dumbill wrote an interesting article on O'Reilly Radar covering the current solutions for running Big Data in the Cloud
Big data and cloud technology go hand-in-hand. Big data needs clusters of servers for processing, which clouds can readily provide.
Big PaaS
Edd touched briefly on the role of PaaS for delivering Big Data applications in the cloud
Beyond IaaS, several cloud services provide application layer support for big data work. Sometimes …
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So I joined the O'Reilly Radar, I created the Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference, and that through that I met Adam Jacob, who showed me Chef in its infancy. We shared a lot of really strong opinions about how infrastructure automation could be improved, how there weren't tools that we sort of felt met our needs. And I wrote the plan for Opscode along with my co-founders, and we created Opscode, got it funded, launched Chef as a product, launched Opscode-hosted…
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"Want a job? Learn SharePoint!" said the article in O'Reilly Radar last year. The U.S. and Canadian federal governments, banks, businesses and all manner of organizations with lots of people, projects and collaboration love SharePoint and are looking for developers. The natural follow-up to "Want a job? Learn SharePoint!" is Want to learn SharePoint? Come to SharePoint Saturday !
SharePoint Saturday takes place on Saturday, November …
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O'Reilly Radar's James Turner conducted a very informative interview with Joe Stump, current CTO of SimpleGeo and former lead architect at Digg , in which Joe makes some of his usually insightful comments on his experience using Cassandra vs MySQL. As Digg started out with a MySQL oriented architecture and has recently been moving full speed to Cassandra, his observations on some of their lessons learned and the motivation for …
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…Opscode really starts when we met Jesse. He had written an article for O'Reilly Radar about "Operations being the new secret sauce" (http://radar.oreilly.com/2007/10/operations-is-a-competitive-ad.html) for startups. He and I met for coffee, became friends, and stayed in touch. Jesse understands operations culture at a visceral level, and he's very well connected to a huge community of like-minded people that I didn't even know existed.
As our consulting company …
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