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The Raspberry Pi 3 Is Here Raspberrians had an early Pi Day present this year. In celebration of the fourth birthday of Raspberry Pi, the next-generation Raspberry Pi 3 has been released. Now on sale for $35, the latest version is compatible with the more than 8 million Raspberry Pi boards already sold. |
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Volunteer While You Sleep: Computing for Clean Water What happens when thousands of volunteers join together to donate their unused computing power for humanitarian research? Hopefully, through the Computing for Clean Water project, access to clean water is closer to reality for nearly one billion people around the world. |
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Are You Choosing the Right Testing Tools? A tester’s productivity and efficiency increasingly is being driven by the set of smart tools used over the course of the testing effort. While all the available options are exciting, the challenge lies in how to go about choosing the right test tools. Commercial or open source? General or niche? |
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How Netflix Handles DevOps, Automation, and Security With code being deployed thousands of times per day, DevOps is Netflix’s best option. It’s a high-speed approach for a high-speed service in a high-speed industry, but with it comes various security risks. Jason Chan, a cloud security architect, looked to automation to solve any issues. |
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OpenStack Kilo—All Grown Up! OpenStack and the cloud infrastructure platform industry in general have gone through radical technology changes since OpenStack’s inception five years ago. As the world’s largest open source project, is the OpenStack community and technology finally delivering on all the hype and anticipation? |
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Mad about Containers What is all the fuss about containers, the latest open source technology spearheaded by startup darling Docker? Are containers poised to be the next best thing in cloud application development, and if so, what about Docker’s competitors? |
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Hooray for the Application Programming Interface Have you ever wondered why there do not seem to be any new computer and network standards? Standards are still alive and well, but for the most part they have been replaced with application programming interfaces, which offer more flexibility in addition to being faster and easier to implement. |
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Help Wanted: Linux Pros The growing number of new Linux-based systems and products, including open source cloud platforms and products like Tesla automobiles, means the forecast for the Linux job market is bright, according to a report produced by the Linux Foundation and Dice, a career site for technology professionals. |
