Open Source

Superclass: 14 of the world’s best living programmers

When developers discuss who the world’s top programmer is, these names tend to come up a lot

Data Scientists Frustrated by Data Variety, Find Hadoop Limiting

A survey of data scientists finds that a majority of them believe their work has grown more difficult as a result of the rapidly increasing variety of data sources they need to draw upon, and nearly a quarter feel Hadoop is not suited to the analytic

OpenSSL Project publishes roadmap to counter criticism

Tools catch security holes in open source code

Given its prevalence, open source code is virtually impossible to avoid, but the proper steps need to be taken address its vulnerabilities

Netflix open sources its Amazon cloud security enforcer

Security Monkey keeps Netflix’s cloud safe, and can do the same for yours.

Databricks takes on Google streaming analysis with Spark

CoreOS Linux does away with the upgrade cycle

Unix: Having fun with diff

The diff command can be your best friend when you’re troubleshooting problems on a Unix system, but are you using it effectively as you could?

Comparing the top Hadoop distributions

Smooth like btrfs: Inside Facebook’s Linux-powered infrastructure

Btrfs creator showcases Facebook’s open-source storage.