One NoSQL Language to Rule Them All
Last year Erik Meijer and Gavin Bierman of Microsoft Research published a paper making the case for a common language for NoSQL databases. A year later, there’s been some progress towards this goal,...
View ArticleRoss Mayfield Sells 2 Companies in One Week: SocialText and SlideShare
Ross Mayfield, founder of the enterprise social network platform Socialtext and VP of business development of SlideShare had both of his companies acquired this week: Socialtext to Bedford Funding and...
View ArticleKanban Hackers Extend Rally ALM Tool at Hackathon
This week agile application lifecycle management vendor Rally held a hackathon in Boulder, CO to celebrate the new version of the company’s App SDK, which gives developers full access to all artifacts...
View ArticleVert.x Brings Node.js Style Development to the Java Virtual Machine
There’s a new alternative to Node.js for Java Virtual Machine (JVM) developers: Vert.x, a an asynchronous development framework based on the Netty framework. Vert.x can applications can be built with...
View ArticleDell Announces A Linux Laptop Designed for Developers
A few years ago Dell began offering the Ubuntu distribution of Linux on its desktops and laptaps, but quietly dropped the option from its online store in 2010 (though it’s still possible to order...
View ArticleThere’s No Such Thing as the Perfect Developer Laptop
Yesterday’s post about Dell’s experimental developer-centric laptop Project Sputnik struck a chord. It’s the most popular post we’ve done at DevOpsAngle, it has 181 comments on Hacker News so far and...
View ArticleUpdate on the BigCouch/CouchDB Merger
Last January I reported that Cloudant is shifting its priorities from developing BigCouch, its fork of Apache CouchDB, towards contributing to the main CouchDB project. At the time, Cloudant CTO Adam...
View ArticleTacoConf: Ride a Bike, Eat Tacos and Learn How to Run Your Own “CultureConf”
TacoConf is a mobile “culture conference” that will happen this weekend in the San Francisco Bay Area. Day One (May 11) will start at 11 am at Henry J. Kaiser Memorial Park in Oakland. Day Two (May...
View ArticleBig Data and DevOps: 5 Projects to Watch
I’ve written before that big data necessitates DevOps by creating infrastructural challenges that require improved collaboration between development and operations and increased reliance on...
View ArticleSpaceOps: How NASA Uses Agile Development in the Search for Life on Mars
A forthcoming case study from Atlassian looks at Ensemble, a project jointly developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, CA and the Ames Research Center near San Francisco. It’s...
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