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OpenStack Has Finally Arrived After two years, 550,000 lines of code, 320 contributors, and 180 companies, the OpenStack cloud infrastructure project has finally arrived as a major player in the IaaS space. Beth Cohen explores the latest news from the world of OpenStack. |
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Open Source Software Strengthens Its Presence in Government Nothing moves fast in government, but embracing open source software is gaining a foothold in many departments in the US. Innovation is being advanced inside of collaborative efforts by scores of developers as the U.S. takes e-Governance to a new level. |
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Three Tough Decisions Developers Face Software development is still a fairly young profession. As technology continues to change, so does the act of development. Here is some insight into the difficulty presented by an everchanging profession. |
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Can Amazon Be a Viable Cloud Standard? Cloud users are asking when cloud computing standards will be mature enough so that more companies will feel comfortable implementing cloud architectures and using cloud services without feeling vendor lock-in. Beth Cohen ponders whether or not Amazon is a viable cloud standard. |
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Netflix Has a Eureka Moment Netflix recently announced an open source cloud service registry and cloud load balancer project called Eureka. If dynamic registry updates and run-time instance discovery are within your cloud project requirements, consider using Eureka in your Java PaaS framework. |
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Every Second Counts: Leap Second Wreaks Havoc with Software Time stood still for a second on Saturday, June 30, 2012, as the official global clock was adjusted to better align time with the Earth’s rotation. This “leap second” wreaked havoc on many big-name websites and even some software platforms as they struggled to adjust to the time change. |
