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Mitch Pronschinske12/22/11
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LinkedIn Open Sources IndexTank - A Search System Kinda Like Solr

Big news for the world of open source search.  IndexTank, a real-time search and indexing system recently acquired by LinkedIn, has just been officially open sourced under the Apache 2.0 license.  LinkedIn promised to open source the technology after they...

Mitch Pronschinske12/18/11
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Ensuring Continuous Operation With Zenoss And Puppet

Puppet and MCollective are critical to building and scaling infrastructure as well as applications that are reliable and resilient. Once deployed and...

Mitch Pronschinske12/16/11
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Deployinator: Being Stupid to Be Smart

Developers deploy production code more than 30 times per day at Etsy. Small, rapid changes allow us to move fast, detect failure, and respond quickly. This...

Mitch Pronschinske12/15/11
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Learn Couchbase - Couchbase Server 2.0 Ruby Client

Get up and Running with the Couchbase Ruby Client quickly with this screencast! Alan McKean guides you through the installation of the software and shows...

Mitch Pronschinske12/15/11
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Super Helpful Visualizations for Infrastructure as Code (DevOps)

Today DevOps-coiner Patrick Dubois tweeted: "wow - @guttertec visualized my ideas so much better".  The link in that tweet was to a slideshare stack posted by Alex Quack which I will now share with you so that you too can go "wow - very...

Mitch Pronschinske12/14/11
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How Cucumber + Puppet Should be Used

Prompted by Patrick Dubois' recent blog post on Puppet unit testing, Nikolay Sturm followed up with a blog related to the cucumber-puppet on discussion that ensued.  He's got an example project up on GitHub for your viewing pleasure.  Here's three points on...

Mitch Pronschinske12/07/11
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Neo4j Labs: Heroku, Neo4j and Google Spreadsheet in 10min. Flat.

Hi all, Last Friday, we were all labbing again - the best day of the week. I didn't have much time so I decided to try to produce a screencast that would measure the time required to go from nothing to flash using some of our tools.

Mitch Pronschinske12/07/11
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Strategies for Web App Notifications on the Desktop

URL:  http://css.dzone.com/articles/users-keep-coming-back-desktop Large Thumbnail:  notifications pinned.png

Mitch Pronschinske12/05/11
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DevOps Tweets of the Week - 12/5

After the quiet Thanksgiving holiday week here in the States, the the DevOps community on twitter is buzzing again.  More fun and interesting tweets have been compiled once again. Here are some of the best tweets I found from last week. ...

Mitch Pronschinske12/04/11
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HA Puppetmaster At (Mt) Media Temple

Sharif Nassar: In this talk I will cover the design and setup of a high availability puppetmaster setup both for redundancy and scaling.See our HA puppetmaster...

Mitch Pronschinske11/30/11
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How DataSift is Datamining 120K Tweets Per Second

Attention architectural gurus!  Get ready to learn about how one company puts together its amazing datamining architecture, and hopefully you'll also walk away with some ideas of your own after reading Todd Hoff's new post on High Scalability.  His post...

Mitch Pronschinske11/30/11
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Building an Application upon Riak - Part 1

For the past few months some of my colleagues and I have been developing an application with Riak as the primary persistent data store.  This has been a very interesting journey from beginning to now.  I wanted to take a few minute and write a quick...

Mitch Pronschinske11/29/11
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Making a VS Achievements App for Windows Phone

URL:  http://dotnet.dzone.com/articles/visual-studio-achievements Large Thumbnail:  achivements.jpg

Mitch Pronschinske11/29/11
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WP Mango Series pt. 26: Background File Transfer

URL:  http://mobile.dzone.com/articles/days-mango-day-26-background?mz=27249-windowsphone7 Large Thumbnail:  mango.jpg

Mitch Pronschinske11/29/11
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Remote Site Editing and Local Syncing with WebMatrix 2

Check out the best new features of WebMatrix 2 Beta. URL:  http://css.dzone.com/articles/staying-date-remote-site?mz=30309-phpwindows Large Thumbnail:  ...