It's human nature to hurry, but developers take the leap from build to production at their own peril. Here's a quick scenario that demonstrates why you should test, test, and test some more.
From boosting resilience to improving security to managing Cassandra clusters, Netflix engineers embrace the freedom to choose the best language for the job. In many cases it's Python.
Forward-thinking IT shops know that a successful business culture begins with understanding employee resistance, not squashing it. Find out how next-gen IT companies are mastering the fine art of change management.
A developer sounds off on how acquisition, competition, and corporate dysfunction brought down an IT project. It's a familiar story, so why do software teams and companies keep repeating it?
To analyze enormous volumes of metadata and messages, Twitter turned to Hadoop with Cascading, which vastly simplifies MapReduce programming while letting developers code in the JVM language of their choice.
To collect and analyze data on 200 million daily events, Evernote transitioned from a MySQL data warehouse to a hybrid environment of Hadoop and ParAccel.
JavaWorld talks with Intuit Principal Engineer Jim Showalter about the evolving Java technology stack at Intuit, why Java is his programming language of choice, and where he finds challenge and inspiration as a career programmer.
How the MarkLogic NoSQL database guided the U.K. Royal Society of Chemistry into the twenty-first century, making 170 years of educational content available to the public.
How Facebook engineers rebuilt native code, reduced garbage collection, and moved photos to a native heap in order to amp the Android application feature.
Are dynamic languages built for the enterprise? Paul Rubens compares Python to Java and .Net. based on scalability, performance, developer productivity, and security.
Hendrickson International Corporation is a leading global supplier of truck, tractor, bus and recreational vehicle suspension and heavy-duty spring components to the commercial transportation industry.
Temperatures in Phoenix, Arizona -- one of the most arid places in the U.S. -- routinely exceed 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius). That's about the opposite of the typical cool-weather environments companies often choose to build data...
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