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Mitch Pronschinske02/13/12
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DevStack: Easy OpenStack Setup

By now most developers and IT folks recognize the groundswell behind OpenStack and why it's so awesome to be able to build your own cross-platform cloud infrastructure. If you want some simple tools, scripts and guides to get you started with OpenStack without having to learn about every aspect of the technology.

Mitch Pronschinske02/12/12
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How to Scale a Web App 1,000x in 3 Days

William Hertling, a Science Fiction writer in his spare time, shared an wild experience on his blog about how in his day job (at HP) he was approached Monday afternoon and told he had to scale a web app up to handle about 10k simultaneous users by Thursday morning. Some great lessons for those of you who need to be prepared for this situation.

Mitch Pronschinske02/06/12
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Are PaaS and "NoOps" Inevitable for Most Software Companies?

Is PaaS an inevitability for your organization? A recent infographic makes its case for 2013 being the year PaaS and "NoOps" goes mainstream (whatever that means). Although my own predictions see "NoOps" becoming a growing niche case, I'm interested to see where the community sees PaaS and "NoOps" in the next year at their organization and in the industry as a whole.

Mitch Pronschinske01/18/12
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Using Solr Cloud, For Real!

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Mitch Pronschinske01/18/12
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Hack Neo4j on Heroku for Fun and Profit

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Mitch Pronschinske01/18/12
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How They Did It: Cut the Rope in HTML5

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Mitch Pronschinske01/18/12
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Amazon's DynamoDB Returns as a Managed, Hosted NoSQL Service

DynamoDB is back.  This was the word today out of Amazon sending shockwaves through the development world.  If the days of cheap cloud-based NoSQL databases weren't here already, they certainly are now.  We expect this announcement to have serious...

Mitch Pronschinske01/17/12
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Functional Programming with Python

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Mitch Pronschinske01/17/12
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Maven: Great Idea, Poor Implementation

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Mitch Pronschinske01/11/12
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DZone's Bringing You More Python Awesomeness

Calling all Pythonistas (Pythonistos?) and Djangonauts! Did you know that Python is ranked 3rd behind Java and JavaScript as the programming language that DZone audience members would want to know if they could only pick 3?

Mitch Pronschinske01/05/12
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DZone's Top 7 Cloud Articles of 2011

This week, DZone has gathered together its top articles in every major topical area.  These Cloud articles were chosen based popularity and quality of content.Top Cloud articles of 20115 Key Events in the history of Cloud ComputingSQL vs NoSQL in the...

Mitch Pronschinske01/02/12
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Solr on EC2

"Cloud computing" is all the rage recently, and Amazon's EC2 is one of the major players. The idea of spinning up a new instance of Solr in...

Mitch Pronschinske12/29/11
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Apache Whirr 0.7 Arrives with Support for Puppet, Chef, Mahout, and Ganglia

Apache Whirr version 0.7.0 has just been released with some nice new support features for DevOps folks and Machine Learning buffs.  The release also fixed 50 issues (4 of them were blockers). Whirr was recently promoted to a Top Level Project at Apache and...

Mitch Pronschinske12/20/11
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Neo4j 1.6 M02 “Jörn Kniv” Brings Heroku Support

We have another milestone for you - 1.6.M02. As I’ve written before, we’re heavily into improving our infrastructure - our build, stress testing etc. But we have more: Faster and better Cypher and open beta on Heroku!This news was posted by Björn...

Mitch Pronschinske12/19/11
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Fixing the Flying Plane: A Production DevOps Team

At Scholastic, Inc., the Web Hosting Department practices DevOps in action, leveraging both their development abilities and their sysadmin skills to...