The trick to leveraging managed big data services is determining which projects are good candidates for outsourcing and then finding a service provider that can deliver immediate value while also reducing… Read more »
Twitter recently detailed its Manhattan database that’s supposed to be the default system for most new applications within the company. Here, the engineers behind Manhattan explain why they built it like… Read more »
Twitter has released some details on its Manhattan database system, which was built to power a wide variety of applications that existing technologies can no longer handle. Twitter handles thousands of… Read more »
The name pretty much says it all: WebScaleSQL. That’s the new open source project Facebook announced on Thursday, which includes early contributions from other web giants that have pushed MySQL to… Read more »
A new service delivery model of the cloud, called Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS), fills the gap that exists in the current cloud delivery models and offers a higher level… Read more »
This quarter we saw more signs of maturity in the cloud computing market, including a new version of the OpenStack standard, more consolidation of cloud computing companies, and a scandal that… Read more »
Almost every mobile application relies on a few essential services to deliver the expected functionality and user experience. SDKs and integrated tools simplified the mobile application life cycle management, but the… Read more »
Likewise, the products are maturing as well. Greater degrees of live, two-way integration with core corporate systems are starting to be supported. Weaknesses in the technology — such as the inaccuracy… Read more »
Updated: Twitter has shared numerous aspects of its infrastructure over the past few years, and its decision to open source its work on MySQL might be the social media platform’s most useful… Read more »
Twitter has been on a tear lately when it comes to open sourcing big-data tools. The latest two are Cassie, a client for managing Cassandra clusters, and Scalding, a MapReduce framework… Read more »